Exergen Temporal Scanner Review & Giveaway
March 11, 2010 by Melissa J & Mel
Filed under Family, Featured Content, For Mom, Giveaways, Home Products, Infants and preschoolers, Jr Highers, Reviews, School Age, Sr Highers

Mel’s Thoughts:
Since having my boys, I’ve always dreaded taking their temps, especially when they’re little, and you can’t get them to hold the oral themometer in their mouth. I don’t feel that taking an axillary temp is as accurate, so I’ve always gone with the dreaded rectal temps when they’re little. Oh yes, I just [...]
TOS Crew: Graphics Toolbox
March 8, 2010 by Mel
Filed under Family, For Mom, Homeschooling, Jr Highers, Reviews, School Age, Sr Highers

Designing and making graphics, buttons, headers, and other kinds of images is something I love, love, love to do. It’s just a niche for me, an outlet of creativity. When I heard we were going to review Graphics Toolbox for the Crew, I was pretty excited at first. Graphics Toolbox was created by Linda Holler [...]
Book Corner: Never Blame the Umpire
March 1, 2010 by Melissa j
Filed under Book Corner, Jr Highers, Sr Highers

My review
This is a precious book. It’s actually hard to believe a man wrote it, because it is so believable authentic from a teen girl’s point of view.
Cancer is a devastating diagnosis for anyone. For a teen, it rocks one’s world. And that is what Never Blame the Umpire is about. With raw, painful emotions, [...]
TOS Crew: Family Mint
March 1, 2010 by Mel
Filed under Family, Homeschooling, Jr Highers, Reviews, School Age, Sr Highers

The financial world has been up in arms for some time now; with a recession going on, it’s even more important to know where you stand financially and how to cut back on things to save money. Early on in our marriage, Dan and I got into a bit of financial trouble, and it has [...]
Book Corner | Raven’s Ladder
February 16, 2010 by Melissa j
Filed under Book Corner, Jr Highers, Reviews, Sr Highers

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. [...]
Knowledge Quest: Map Trek
February 12, 2010 by Melissa J & Mel
Filed under Homeschooling, Jr Highers, Reviews, School Age, Sr Highers

Melissa J. and Mel had the opportunity to review Knowledge Quest’s Ancient and Medieval Map Trek. For the sake of writing space and to save you reading time, Melissa J. chose to review Ancient Map Trek, and Mel chose to review Medieval Map Trek.
Mel’s Thoughts:
History and geography is such a vast and wide area of [...]
TOS Crew: Presidential Penmanship (BJ Style)
January 28, 2010 by Mel
Filed under Homeschooling, Jr Highers, Reviews, School Age, Sr Highers

Mel participated in this review with the TOS Homeschool Crew.
Zeezok Publishing is a company that has a variety of different materials, including music studies, literature, character building, and penmanship.
We received Presidential Penmanship (BJ Style) to review in our homeschool endeavors. I just want to be up front and honest in this review; since this style [...]
TOS Crew: Dollar Homeschool/Ray’s Arithmetic
January 25, 2010 by Mel
Filed under Homeschooling, Jr Highers, Reviews, School Age, Sr Highers

Mel participated in this review with the TOS Homeschool Crew.
When I got an email for the Crew from Dollar Homeschool/Ray’s Arithmetic, I really didn’t know what to expect. I thought it was going to be just another math course for Jacob and I to review. Little did I know the background behind it or what [...]
TOS Crew: Christian Keyboarding
January 17, 2010 by Mel
Filed under Homeschooling, Jr Highers, Reviews, School Age, Sr Highers

Mel participated in this review with the TOS Homeschool Crew.
Christian Keyboarding recently sent two programs to review, Keyboarding for the Christian School Elementary Version and Keyboarding for the Christian School Revised, both written by Leanne Beitel. They were PDF files, so you can print out what you need at certain times. The Elementary Version is [...]
Knowledge Quest: Upper Level Homeschool
January 4, 2010 by Melissa J & Mel
Filed under For Mom, Homeschooling, Jr Highers, Reviews, Sr Highers

Mel’s Thoughts:
From the creators of the Homeschooling ABCs course, comes Upper Level Homeschooling, a course for homeschooling parents to take, in order to help them learn how to give their older children/teens the best education possible. All together there are thirteen lessons, scheduled to be delivered to your inbox once every week over the course [...]
* Terrestria Chronicles *
December 7, 2009 by Melissa J & Mel
Filed under Family, Featured Content, Homeschooling, Jr Highers, Reviews, School Age, Sr Highers

Terrestria Chronicles by Ed Dunlop
Ages: 10 and up
Price: $7.99 per book or $47.99 for the entire series
Visit the kingdom of Terrestria, a land where knights and their ladies live in castles and hwere dragons still roam (occasionally).
The Terrestria Chronicles allegory series was written with a three-fold purpose: to honor Jesus Christ as King, [...]
The Attitude Girl by Mila Bernadkin
November 29, 2009 by Melissa J & Mel
Filed under Book Corner, Reviews, Sr Highers

The Attitude Girl by Mila Bernadkin
Review by Melissa j
Teenagers live in a tough world. It becomes even more tough when things like cancer, suicide, and family drama enters that world. It’s not wonder adolescents walk around with attitude problems.
The Attitude Girl models what could more than likely be a journal entry, for today’s modern [...]
* Curse of the Spider King *
November 17, 2009 by Melissa J & Mel
Filed under Book Corner, Jr Highers, Reviews, Sr Highers

The Curse of the Spider King: Book 1 in the Berinfell Prophecies
By: Wayne Thomas Batson and Christopher Hopper
Ages: 12 – 17
Put out by: Thomas Nelson
Price: $14.99
Disclosure: Thomas Nelson provided complimentary copies to Mama Buzz reviewers for the purposes of this blog tour.
Mel’s Thoughts:
Curse of the Spider King, written by Wayne Thomas Batson [...]
* Guys are Waffles, Girls are Spaghetti: Ages 12 -17 – - Review and Giveaway! *
October 27, 2009 by Melissa J & Mel
Filed under Reviews, Sr Highers

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TOS Crew: Amazing Bible Timeline
October 21, 2009 by Mel
Filed under Family, Homeschooling, Jr Highers, Reviews, School Age, Sr Highers

Mel participated in this review with the TOS Crew.
We have been studying ancient history since last January; recently, we studied about Alexander the Great, Cyrus, and Hannibal. We learned all about some of these central characters in ancient history, and, of course, Jacob was fascinated with their stories; he even plays dress-up now, as a [...]





















