Category Archives: Site News

Spread the heathen love, lol!

I am so excited!  The business cards that I ordered for this blog have arrived!  They are going to be given out at a small homeschool event that a friend of mine coordinates.  Hehe!  Here is what they look like…… After I placed my order I found a card that I liked even better.  So…

Talk about freaking out…

As my followers on Twitter know, last night my blog went down for a little bit.  My site was hacked.  A trojan horse was attached to the last post I did yesterday.  The good news is that it was caught and my site was temporarily down before anyone was effected.  The bad news is, my…

What do you mean my blog is not appropriate?

Well now that I have started blogging again, the negative emails and other comments have started.  I find it amusing that some people think they are so high and mighty that naming my blog Heathen Homeschoolers is considered offensive, lol! My personal favorite came today when I had 6 – count them 6 – ad…

10 Things I Should Be Doing —- But I’m NOT!

1.  Do the dishes 2.  Laundry 3.  Clean out the basement to get ready for remodeling 4.  Balance the checkbook 5.  Dust the living room 6.  Call my sister 7.  Work on stuff for our local homeschool group 8.  Deciding where the new raised gardening beds are going 9.  Finishing that silly facebook page that…

Music Monday – Boom Whackers

One of the departments of a local group we participate in is Fine Arts.  This department has classes in music, art and theater.  There are classes for babies, moms and all ages in between. Since today is Music Monday, I want to tell you about one of the classes I teach.  This semester I am…

Happy Veteran’s Day

Happy Veteran’s Day! If you are searching for a quick Veteran’s Day lesson check out Ed Helper They have a variety of resources about the holiday.  It is a subscription site, but it is very affordable.  We subscribe each year mainly for the holiday books, coloring sheets and crafts.  We really don’t do worksheets, but…

The Return

Several weeks ago I asked a friend to temporarily take over admin duties here on the Heathen Blog and the community website. At the time, I was having a rough time medically and needed the time to focus on me and my family. I also had additional family issues arise during the time I was…

OMG! My helper flaked!

Hello to my fellow Heathens! I apologize for the lengthy absence of this blog. I had left a friend in charge of the blog and community site in my absence. It appears that they never even posted the blog entries that I had left for them. It also appears as though they ended their membership…

What? A blog can generate income?

As many of the members of our online community know, I pay to have the google ads removed from our ning site.  I decided to do this because many of the homeschool ads were religious in nature.  I felt that was not in keeping with our Heathen theme. I have been exploring ways to offset…

A Blog Award For ME?

I was thrilled to see that Kathy at “Is 8 Enough” passed this blog award to me. Thanks again Kathy! Here’s how it works: 1. Put the logo on your blog. 2. Add a link to the person who awarded you. 3. Nominate at least five other blogs. 4. Add links to those blogs on…