Black Friday Giveaway Winner

And the winner is ...

Kari, who wrote:

I have two stories to share!

One was when my son (who's now 18) had an ant farm he was only allowed to use at his grandparents home (their rule, NOT mine) and how he always wished he could have one of his own and you'd be fulfilling a very old dream for him if you pick our family.

The other is how I now have a 2nd family of sorts and my two daughters would love to have an ant farm and we could use it in our homeschooling.

Hope you enjoy your ant farm! Guess your kids will have to duke it out, huh?

BTW, be careful when you lift the lid to remove dead bodies. Those ants are fast! (You don't want to know how I know.)

Black Friday Giveaway

Picture Black Friday at your nearest mall, as seen from a helicopter. Does an image of little, tiny, scurrying critters, all illuminated by the red light of fury, come to mind?

In honor of Black Friday - and to ease the holiday shopping pain in the wallet - I'm giving away this Antworks with Red LED

(Somehow the symbolism seem entirely appropriate.)

You may enter in one of two ways:

Leave a comment here telling me how you'll use this ant farm, who will receive it, how you'll incorporate it into your homeschooling, or how you wished for an ant farm as a kid and how I'm fulfilling your lifelong desire of having an even better ant farm than you ever could have had at nine years old.

Or email me offlist at TheEclecticMom@gmail.com.

Enter by midnight CST Monday. Good luck, and happy shopping!

If you're not so lucky on Monday, you can also buy Antworks with Green and Antworks with Blue

And "The Giving Tree" Goes to ...

Victoria! Who doesn't need to go to the library for the book now. Hope you, Bean, and Miss O enjoy the book!

Thanks to everyone who entered, either through comments or off list!

Friday Giveaway - The Giving Tree

In honor of all the offers of help I received when my parents came into town unexpectedly with a medical crisis a couple of weeks ago, I'm giving away a copy of The Giving Tree.

Entry is a two-step process this time (I'm going to make you work for it):

1. Comment here or email me offlist at TheEclecticMom@gmail.com about whether you love or hate this book (or have no opinion at all), and

2. Tell one of your homeschooling friends or attachment parenting friends (or any other friends) to enter too!

(Obviously, I won't know if you've done #2 - oops, sorry, that sounds bad - so you're on the honor system.) I'll pick the winner by random drawing on Tuesday morning. Deadline is Monday at midnight CST.

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If you liked this post, you might enjoy Sunday's Gratitude Post from September 13.

Drumroll, please ...

And the winner is ...

... lucky #7: Jennifer Mauck!

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I'll email you off list, Jennifer, with instructions on claiming your free t-shirt. Congratulations!

Reminder: Enter to win a t-shirt!

Today's the last day to enter to win a free homeschooling t-shirt! To get the rules, click on Thursday's post. The drawing will happen tomorrow morning.

Good luck!

Yippee! A Homeschooling T-Shirt Giveaway!!!

The oh-so-great folks at Great Homeschool T-Shirts have generously offered to give one lucky winner a homeschooling t-shirt of their choosing! Yippee!

I recently ordered four t-shirts for my kids and me, and they look terrific. So terrific that I wrote the company to see if they would be willing to give one of my readers a t-shirt, since I loved our shirts so much.

T got this one:

"Beware! I'm an unsocialized homeschooler!"

S and G got this one (in different colors):

"Warning: Unsocialized homeschooler ...

Interact or communicate at your own risk!"

And I got this one: "Warning: Parent of an

unsocialized homeschooler"

So, here are the rules. You can enter by doing one of the following:

1. Add a comment to this post, telling me one thing that you love or hate about homeschooling - or spill an embarrassing story. :) You must be a homeschooler yourself to use this option.

2. Subscribe to my blog by following it or subscribing to my

blog's feed (and letting me know in your comment that you did so).

3. Send me a (nice, please!) comment off list to

TheEclecticMom@gmail.com. (Nasty comments won't count.)

The drawing will be held Monday, the 31st, so get your entries in! I'll use a random number generator to pick the winner, based on the order in which I receive the comments.

In the meantime, take a look at the great t-shirts at

Great Homeschool T-Shirts. They're having a terrific sale -

ALL t-shirts are only $5.99! Can't beat that! They also sell

tote bags and bumper stickers. Oh! The sale ends September

10th, so hurry.

BTW, I don't have any connection to their company. I'm just appreciative of a company that offers secular options of homeschooling t-shirts, although they have plenty of religious options too.