If you were looking to name your homeschool supply business, Timberdoodle isn’t likely to sit at the top of your list of names. But for us it has been perfect, unique enough to aid people in remembering it, and not too terribly hard to spell for Google! So how did we get there?

From early on Mom wanted to be the next Dale Evans and when she and Dad met in college, he was pursuing his dream of becoming a farmer. Both graduated and married, then picked out a champion pedigreed Golden Retriever puppy to become the foundation of their show hunting dog kennel. The namesake of Timberdoodle is a small elusive game bird, a worthy symbol of the intended future: a well-researched, expertly trained and successfully shown family of Golden Retrievers. The business name was successfully registered, but the beautiful Golden Retriever did not cooperate with their plans.

While still attempting to get the kennel up and running, Mom was busy teaching my sisters and I. As we learned, she would take our favorite tools to meetings where other moms fell in love with them too, and ordered their own copies. Soon she realized that if she purchased in case quantities she could save the other moms money, while industriously tucking a little away to supplement the family income.

Money was tight in those days, so rather than register another business name, Mom and Dad simply took the name Timberdoodle for the new homeschool supply business. Running Timberdoodle was a long way from their initial career dreams, and has blessed them (and us!) in ways they couldn’t imagine in 1985.

Today’s Giveaway
Since a dog played such an instrumental role in our beginning, we are giving you an opportunity to win your own dog – without having to feed, water or walk it! Read more about Wahoo the riding dog here, or visit Facebook to enter to win a Wahoo in your choice of colors.

Or read all about the giveaways here.