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Of course I like supporting small businesses and Amazon is anything but. At the end of the day, there is room for all in our lives. We have Amazon Prime and have had it for years. It is a part of our lives now.

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Three reasons we love Amazon Prime:

Fast shipping – Even though I plan my life way in advance, there are days when I need something fast and I cannot drive to the store for it. Thanks to Amazon Prime, I receive supplies within two days.
Subscribe and Save Subscriptions – Every household needs some staple items on a regular basis. You set the frequency of the order and can cancel at any time. In addition, you pay less money for these items. What’s not to love?
Most of the time, Amazon is cheaper than brick-and-mortar businesses. Not for everything, of course. But when I am in a bookstore and I see a book my kid wants, I pull up my Amazon app and check to see if their price is better.

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The internet has changed our lives so much, I don’t know how we managed before it. I know people who homeschool without internet at home. It is possible. After all, pioneering homeschoolers of the 80s and 90s all managed without it.

My children coloring a page as they follow instructions from Kinderbach.com – our piano curriculum online

However, the internet makes it so easy for me to teach. Here are some ways in which the internet plays an essential role in my homeschool:

researching homeschooling in general and curriculum in particular
inspiration from other blogging, homeschooling moms
finding the best deals on curriculum
downloading free printables
science4us.com, mangolanguages.com, kinderbach.com, k5learning.com – all these curricula, which we currently use, are online. I will be writing reviews on all of them in a few weeks, by the way.
finding about the weather, which can change our plans for the (following) day. Who has time for the TV news to get to the weather forecast? We live in a mountain town, with steep neighborhood streets. Our driveway is at an incline, too. Not bad, compared to other homes around our town, but enough to make it dangerous to walk to the mailbox when it freezes over. Even getting two inches of snow means we are snowed in.
Amazon Prime, baby! Love it, love it, love it.
Google Translate – sometimes I draw a blank when my kids ask me for a word in French or Romanian or Spanish. Then, I tell them, “Let’s look it up!” Bonus: they learn the process of getting information.
blogging – the multitude of opportunities for dialogue and sponsorship a blogging, homeschooling mom exposes herself to is astounding.
Code.org – if you want your children to learn how to program a computer, you’ve got it made with this site.
The Khan Academy – my children are too young for it still, but we look forward to diving into this free resource for math, science, history, economics, with subjects being added regularly.