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So happy to be back! 13 Lessons from When My Website Crashed

2024-01-31 aprilmomoffour blogging

13 Lessons from When My Website Crashed for 11 Days

If you visited this website in the past eleven days, you might have seen a disaster scene, a blank website, a ghost town. But I have good news. As you can see, I am back in business. When my website crashed, I learned quite a few lessons through the process of trying to get storiesofourboys.com back up. I am going to tell you all about it. For eleven whole days, storiesofourboys.com was wiped off the face of the internet. It […]

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Ways to Use Brain Pop Jr. at Home School

2015-04-03 aprilmomoffour Classical Conversations, computers, homeschool, parenting, science

Home schooling may be one of the greatest challenges I have taken on as a parent. One of my biggest struggles is making learning fun. If the boys spend all day doing seat work, writing, and listening to me teach them, they start to become unmanageable. A house of unmanageable children will wreck your day in a hurry. I figure if it is hard for me to find ways to make it fun, it must be hard for other parents […]

A Week of Serious Breakthroughs

2014-11-15 aprilmomoffour blog, blogging, Classical Conversations, funny stories, grandparents, home school, homeschool

When I started college in 1999, the computer world looked absolutely nothing as it looks today. We barely used email, let alone websites. Books were purchased at stores that sold coffee, notes were written on paper, and Facebook, WordPress, and Twitter were not even thoughts in anyone’s heads. On top of that, as an easily bored 18 year old, I swore off anything computer or business world related. I made my home in the school of Arts and Sciences. The […]