Easter Scavenger Hunt

I've added a great Easter activity to my website. Check out the Resurrection Egg Easter Scavenger Hunt available in my Article Library. This fun activity adds the Biblical meaning of Easter to the traditional practices of the holiday. It would work well in your homeschool, as a Sunday school lesson, or as a family activity. It comes from an extremely creative friend of mine. In fact, her entire site is just awesome and jam-packed with wonderful party ideas. Be sure to check out www.diva-girl-parties-and-stuff.com sometime.

Have a wonderful and blessed Easter,

Linda W. Kelley

www.Christian-Parenting-Source.com

My HSB blog is back!

Well, my homeschool blogger (HSB) blog is back. It seems it was deleted accidentally. I got an e-mail from one of the administrators. She explained that HSB was needing to eliminate abandoned blogs to free up some space on their software. She looked at information they keep which listed the last activity on my blog as October 1st. This information, she's discovered, isn't reliable because I had last posted Feb 21st.

She also mentioned a note and list of the blogs to be deleted was posted on HSB's web site: The Company Porch. I told her, although it might be a little more time consuming, an e-mail to the blog owner before deletion would be a great idea to avoid this kind of mistake in the future. I did see a note about blogs being deleted, but didn't think mine was in jeopardy. Also, I don't have a lot of extra time to read the HSB Company Porch blog daily. Between homeschooling, operating a web site, and blogging -- I have just about all I can handle.

Actually, I've been thinking about doing something different with my blog for some time and this has made me revisit that decision. Free hosts just don't do very well at bringing traffic to one's blog. Plus, I need a store to sell the many e-books I'm working on. I may use e-Christian as a host to house both my blog and e-bookstore thereby killing two birds with one stone so to speak. Also, it has been extremely time-consuming to switch all my blogrolls, etc. over to the HSB blog. I'm not sure it's really worth it.

Never-the-less, I'm grateful my blog is back so that I can copy what I'd posted since I switched from blogger. I was in panic-mode there for a while when I thought that content was lost forever. And, I link to the blog from multiple places, which caused a lot of confusion for a lot of people and could even have hurt my site rankings (the search engines don't like broken links). But, all is well now. And, if and when I make another change you all will be the first to know it!!

Until we meet in the teachers' lounge again,

Linda W. Kelley

www.Christian-Parenting-Source.com

I'm Back!!!!!

Well, thanks to Homeschool Blogger deleting my entire blog I'm now back at blogger. I'll give you all the details tomorrow. I'm too tired and upset to get into it tonight as it's already after 11 pm here. Needless to say I wouldn't recommend anyone use their services to blog. They're not very reliable.

Anyway, just wanted to let you all know I've got a new book review posted. Check out Connecting With Your Child by Timothy Smith when you get a minute.

Until we meet in the teacher's lounge again,

Linda W. Kelley

www.christian-parenting-source.com