As I told you last night, I have more details for even more excitement to share with you today. Yesterday I announced that we are now affiliate partners with Notebooking Pages, to provide you more great pre-designed Notebooking Pages for your Book of Remembrance Journals.

Today I’d like to invite you to the Launch Party of Notebooking Pages newest resource, that I’m SO excited about.

The Notebooking Publisher™ is a new web app, available to Notebooking Pages Treasury Members, that will allow you to customize, create, and complete your Notebooking Pages online, before printing out. You can use one of their templates, or customize one of their templates, or even start from scratch.

The Notebooking Publisher™ will be unveiled tonight, Tues. May 22, 2012, at 7 p.m. Central (8 Eastern, 5 Pacific) at The Notebooking Publisher™ Launch Party. Not only will you get more details about this new web app, but there will also be plenty of  prizes and freebies from your favorite home ed suppliers, including Me & My House ministries.

Here’s a bit more about The Notebooking Publisher™. Click here to learn more. Then join us at the Party tonight!

Why would we create The Notebooking Publisher™?

Top Three Reasons:
#1 So older kids can TYPE their narrations, reports, and other written work.
#2 So kids can be part of the design & layout process.
#3 So there would be no limit to the artwork available — now you can add your own images instead of waiting for us to have a particular topic available.

OK, maybe just one more because it’s a biggie…
#4 There’s a learning curve involved in using the various desktop software packages out there, not to mention a hefty cost. The Notebooking Publisher™ is SUPER simple to use. AND, it will come preloaded with 100s of our templates.

See you at the Party!

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Journaling or Notebooking is a huge part of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™. It is the method we use for documenting our studies in our  Book of Remembrance Journals, as we don’t use workbooks, quizzes or tests. Journaling can be done on plain paper, but we like to make special Notebooking pages. Why?

1. It adds interest to their papers – and a more visually pleasing Journal.
2. It keeps before them what they need to write about.
3. It helps them see at a glance what a paper is about.
4. And this is all in addition to the benefits of just Journaling itself! These are just some of the benefits of having designed Journaling pages.

But, of course, designing Journaling pages takes time and some effort. Since this designing of pages isn’t vital to our education, (I think MyMini Books of Remembrance – Lapbooks -  need to be more so,) I’m happy to utilize Notebooking pages that have been designed by others, when they fit the topics we study. And Debra Reed, of Notebooking Pages has designed plenty to fit most of our needs (and perhaps yours too.)

You can buy individual sets of Notebooking Pages from Debra, or for a super deal, you can become a Treasury Member and have access for a full year to thousands of Notebooking Pages that Debra offers (including some 3-D ones for designing your MyMini Books of Remembrance – lapbooks), both current and future (while you are a member.) Debra adds new pages every 4-6 weeks. Inexpensive Annual Renewal will keep you getting everything to come.

But, something even greater is in the works at Notebooking Pages. The Notebooking Publisher™ is a new web app being added to the Treasury Membership site that will help you and your children create completely customized Notebooking Pages, easily. You’ll be able to customize text, photos, clip art, and add pre-loaded embellishments to the 100′s of pre-designed  templates there, or design your own! Your students can also type their papers right onto the templates before printing, rather than writing on them by hand. (More about that tomorrow.)

The Treasury Membership is already a super value, at $74.95  for over $600 worth of Notebooking Pages (plus all the new updates over the next year). The Notebooking Publisher™ is no doubt worth this amount also, all by itself. But it will be included FREE for members. But that’s not all. (I feel like a infomercial salesman. But this truly is so exciting!) Debra is giving a 25% discount AND an Additional 3 months Membership to those that join the Treasury Membership (or renew) this month. This is a super outstanding value. And NOW is the time to join, and save yourself a lot of time and headaches trying to design your own Journaling pages.

Me & My House will continue to offer our exclusive Journaling Pages specific to our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ studies. But, with our new affiliate partnership with Notebooking Pages,  these will be of great help for your general studies.

Tomorrow morning I’ll share more about the new Notebooking Publisher™, and a special party to launch it tomorrow night!

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Ebooks are rapidly infiltrating home education. This type of resource that was unknown just a few short years ago, is experiencing a huge growth spurt. Some home educators are thrilled with this new technology (especially when they come for FREE.) Some home educators are very leary of it, loving their paper books and not wanting them to be replaced. And many home educators (and the rest of society) are clueless. They aren’t really sure what exactly an ebook is, how to use them, or where to find them.

Putting the ‘E’ in Home E-ducation~Freedom & Simplicity™ Guide to Using Ebooks, the newest Freedom & Simplicity™ guide from Me & My House ministries, will walk you through the answers to those questions and many more.

… Lisa, have you looked at my computer?! I have e-books in so many places that I really need that free software you tell us about and I’ll be downloading it just as soon as I finish this review.

Like so many homeschool moms, I love to research and discovered many gems through the years that I planned to incorporate into our homeschooling. I’m still finding them, although our youngest is a rising junior in college. Sigh.

But YOU don’t have to do that. Lisa is offering her e-book for a limited time at a low introductory price. If you would like to do better at managing and organizing e-books more effectively so they can be incorporated into your homeschooling (and as Lisa pointed out, there are so many free classics!), you might just want to take a look. …

Excerpt from review by Dana Wilson of
Train up a Child Publishing, LLC

Pick up your copy of Putting the ‘E’ in Home E-ducation beginning today!
Only $3 

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Homeschooling Today magazine is celebrating its 20th Anniversary!

HST is a wonderful, helpful homeschool magazine that is probably our favorite. We have continued to subscribe to since its beginning! Along with encouragement and equipping articles for parents, it is packed with plenty of practical application articles for use with your children. One of our favorites has been the art appreciation articles, with pictures.

To celebrate its anniversary, they are doing some GREAT GIVEAWAYS! AND Me & My House ministries has partnered with them by providing some of OUR resources to be included in the giveaways. Click the image or HERE for more info and to sign up for the Giveaways.

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35% off Vision Forum created study courses when you order 2 or more - up to a $33.25 savings per study course!

 History of Christianity and Western Civilization, Biblical Economics, WWII, Into the Amazon, Law & Government, Proper Writing. We own several but haven’t used them all yet. But highly recommend based on what we’ve done so far.

Ends today. 

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I just came across this article on 15 Self-Directed Activities for Toddlers. There are some great ideas there to add to the “Educational Tool Box” we recommend in our article on what to do with Toddlers while you’re teaching your older children.

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The Roots are beginning to show Shoots!

The first phase of the Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ eCourses is open. And this part is FREE.

I’m working behind the scenes at our Discipleship yoU! online courses site to launch the L.E.D. Courses, and the first section is done. I’ve opened a Free Forum for users of the Biblically principled method Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ to ask questions, discuss how users are applying it, and share ideas.

Join the Free L.E.D. Forum here!

Need the basics of L.E.D. – for Freedom & Simplicity™ in Biblically principled home ed?
Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar ToGo (the foundations)

Freedom & Simplicity˙ on R Road to Biblical Wisdom (the how to guide)

Also, prayers are coveted as I work on A Quick Start Guide to Freedom & Simplicity™ through Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™.  My goal is to have it finished and available yet this month. This guide will help those new to home education, or just new to L.E.D., to jump in and start quickly, while still renewing their mind and learning themselves. (Based on my mentorship of those that call me and say, “Hi. I’m pulling my kids out of public school tomorrow. What do I do?”

If you’re already using L.E.D. Join us at the Free L.E.D. Forum here!

If you haven’t started yet, pick up the basic Foundational resources and begin today.

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Thank you for joining us for our L.E.A.P. Party today! We hope you enjoyed the party and learned more about how to home educate in Freedom & Simplicity™ through Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™

As one last parting gift, we’d like to offer you our newest resource, Freedom & Simplicity™ Study of Vocabulary & English Roots at a Special Price.

We also will leave up the Freedom & Simplicity™ Getting Started Combo Special for the rest of the evening, so you can get started with Freedom & Simplicity™ in Biblical home education at a great price!

If you missed any of our L.E.A.P. Super Sale prices today, you can get all of today’s specials at these same prices until tomorrow by subscribing to our newsletter and going to our Subscribers page. You’ll get the Subscribers only link when you confirm your subscription.

Freedom & Simplicity™ Study of Vocabulary & English Roots

This Freedom & Simplicity™ resource provides the tools you need to effectively study Vocabulary, so you can effectively use it in communication. Follow the R Road process to reason through several types of word studies, and Journal these studies on the provided notebooking forms. Rather than a full list of words to study, this course gives you the tools to study any word! These tools include: Foundational study – to put Vocabulary learning in its proper whole-to-parts context, a variety of Journaling forms with instructions, suggested resources – including Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, and an example of course requirements, grading and credits for high school students.

If you plan to go to college, a study of English Vocabulary is important. If you plan to converse with others effectively (and I hope you do) it is vital.

Sorry, this Super Sale has ended. But you can still order Freedom & Simplicity™ Study of Vocabulary & English Roots at a great price here.

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Question: What L.E.D. resource do you think will be most helpful for you to begin finding Freedom & Simplicity™ in Biblical home education?

Want a taste of Freedom & Simplicity™ of L.E.D.? Get a FREE workshop audio,
An Introduction to Biblical Education through Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™,
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L.E.A.P. stands for Lifestyle Education’s Awesome Party! And it’s happening right now over at our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page.

Throughout this Leap Year Day we’ll be having “29 minute” giveaways and specials. Join the party by “Liking” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page  and watching throughout the day for party posts about L.E.D.  in addition to announcements of the 29 Minute L.E.A.P. posts here.

Our eighth – and last – 29 Minute L.E.A.P. post is for a Special price for everyone – who orders in the next 29 minutes!

Freedom & Simplicity™ Getting Started Combo

Freedom & Simplicity™ of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ ~ The Seminar AND Freedom & Simplicity™ on R Road to Biblical Wisdom

L.E.D.™ is a way of looking at Life and Learning, based on seeking Biblical Wisdom through Universal Principles with Unique Applications™. The multi-session (full day) Seminar presents the foundations and the vision of Biblical learning for excellence in the lifestyle of the Christian home. Freedom & Simplicity™ on R Road presents the Freedom & Simplicity™ methods we use in L.E.D. It will help you learn the R’s you can apply, simply, to learn anything you desire, from a Biblical perspective. Each R along the Road is a simple method that leads to excellence in learning, so we can grow in Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge and walk in liberty.These 2 resources will give you what you need to get you started in a Freedom & Simplicity™ Biblical home education.

Real Books and Family-Friendly Natural Methods
+ Biblical Foundations and Reasoning for Excellence
= L.E.D.

Sorry, this Super Sale has ended. But you can still order Freedom & Simplicity™ on R Road to Biblical Wisdom  and Freedom & Simplicity™ of L.E.D. ~ The Seminar at great prices. Click their names.

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Question: Did you join us on our L.E.D. Facebook Page tonight for this party? Do you have any questions about Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™?

Want a taste of Freedom & Simplicity™ of L.E.D.? Get a FREE workshop audio,
An Introduction to Biblical Education through Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™,
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L.E.A.P. stands for Lifestyle Education’s Awesome Party! And it’s happening right now over at our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page.

Throughout this Leap Year Day we’ll be having “29 minute” giveaways and specials. Join the party by “Liking” our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Facebook Page  and watching throughout the day for party posts about L.E.D.  in addition to announcements of the 29 Minute L.E.A.P. posts here.

Our seventh 29 Minute L.E.A.P. post is for a Special price for everyone – who orders in the next 29 minutes!

Freedom & Simplicity™ on R Road to Biblical Wisdom

What does Biblically principled education look like? How does it differ from other methods? Can I really apply the same methods in everything we study? Does this really bring me and my children freedom? Can it really be applied in simplicity? How can natural, lifestyle methods produce an education of excellence?

These are questions I’m asked about the methodology of Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™, and this Learning Guide answers them. Come along with us on R Road, and learn the R’s you can apply, simply, to learn anything you desire, from a Biblical perspective. Each R along the Road is a simple method that leads to excellence in learning, so we can grow in Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge and walk in liberty. Nearly 100 pages of detailed information and application tips.

Sorry, this Super Sale has ended. But you can still order Freedom & Simplicity™ on R Road to Biblical Wisdom at a great price here.

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Question: Do you use any of the following in your home ed? Copywork, narrations, mindmapping, lapbooking, notebooking.

Want a taste of Freedom & Simplicity™ of L.E.D.? Get a FREE workshop audio,
An Introduction to Biblical Education through Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™,
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