I get SO many questions about Brave Writer, and everyone has a unique situation. I am going to be posting the replay of my live Q&A video here and I encourage you to watch it to see if someone else has a similar question. If your question is not answered, post it in the comments […]
This is the Ultimate Family Bike!
A while back I discovered the Taga 2.0 bike and fell in love with the idea of what a family bike ride could be. With five little kids, going on a bike ride is a little less enjoyable and a little more like the wild west. My 9 year old is very independent. He always […]
5 Reasons I Love Illustrated Faith Devotional Kits
Every day the mail comes, bringing bills and renewal notices and stuff I need to add to my to-do list. But somewhere in the midst of that monotony, a little parcel slip arrives. I pack all five kids in the van and head to the nearest post office pick up location for my box, feeling […]
How we are Combining Unit Study and Charlotte Mason Homeschooling!
What if I told you that you could teach your kids Science, Bible, Art, Writing, Reading, History, Geography, and Culture with a single curriculum — all with a Charlotte Mason approach? I am so excited to introduce you to WinterPromise: an incredible curriculum publishing company that is open-and-go and one of my all time favorites. […]
How to Make Math Fun!
Math can be a huge struggle for many children. Part of the reason for this is that practise and repetition are key factors to reinforcing concepts and rules that are taught. And while it is an important approach, math drills and tests and practise problems over and over again can quite frankly be downright boring! […]
Interactive Educational Games for Kids
As a homeschool mom, I am always on the prowl for interactive educational games and resources to help make learning fun for my kids. As much as possible we try to bring in play as a method of teaching to help the kids truly process what they are learning and experiment with it further (all […]
Bible Journaling in a Notebook
Bible journaling doesn’t have to be complicated, yet I think sometimes we focus so much on the beauty that it CAN be that we miss the purpose behind it. While it can be an act of worship and creative expression to draw, paint, or scrapbook these artistic pages, the goal is to meditate on the […]
How I Use Copywork to Teach Language Arts
As a homeschool mom of 5 young children, teaching each child at their own level with their own subjects was slowly killing me. Like a slow moving poison, I was losing the life and passion and fire in my homeschool. I was burning out, I was frustrated, I was tired, something had to give. Language […]
3 Quality Notebooks for Bullet Journaling
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I am an eclectic planner. Which means that I like to be free to make planning what works for ME, rather than to be tied to a particular system. This also means that I try a lot of different methods and over the years, have developed a symptomatic obsession with all things stationary. Paper, the […]
Using Doodles in your Bible
When I talk about doodling, the response is usually a mixture of awe and resolve: “I can’t do that.” This response has always bothered me a bit because this is simply not true. Doodles are meant to be scrawled, imperfect, and VERY simple. They are not elegant works of art, they can generally be drawn […]
Simple Bible Journaling Ideas
Bible journaling can be incredibly overwhelming. With the viral nature of social media, a quick search on Pinterest often brings up professional artist’s pages that are a far cry from anything we feel we are capable of. As someone who is still relatively new to Bible journaling, I have struggled to find my way amongst […]
10+ Books to Build your Classic’s Library
My children range from the tender age of 3 up to the spunky age of 10. I have been blessed with a few easy listeners, you know, the ones who pay attention and actually enjoy reading with you? However, 3 of my children are more like an everlasting bouncy ball. Their eyes, their hands, their […]
5 Ways to Use the Workbox System in your Homeschool
The workbox system is a popular way of organizing your homeschool day. In a nutshell, you place your child’s assignments and books in each of the drawers either the night before or the week before and let your child work through it at their own pace. It appeals to many homeschoolers because it offers their […]
Letting Go of Fear and Insecurity
Let’s have a chat about motherhood. NEVER, in my wildest dreams, would I have imagined the doubts, insecurities, and fears I would face along this journey. Growing up with younger siblings and being somewhat baby crazy as a child… I thought I knew what I was getting into. I bore my first child with an […]
Homeschooling Around the World: A Photo Series
I recently saw a photo series by a professional photographer that showcased homeschooling and it irked me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, the photos were beautiful! The captions depicted children hunting, exploring nature, scaling ponds, and playing in the mud: unschooling in all its glory. The lighting was perfect, the focus was crisp […]
5 Ways to Bible Journal without Writing in your Bible
The number 1 concern that I hear when it comes to Bible journaling, is that people don’t want to write in their Bibles. Perhaps they don’t want to paint or cover the scriptures, or maybe they are afraid of ruining their Bible when their art doesn’t work out the way they had planned. Whatever the […]
5 Hacks to Help You Teach your Reluctant Reader
My firstborn taught himself to read. I remember a few frustrating teaching sessions, and then one day he pulled out a grade 2 reading level book and without any stepping stones, was reading it fluently. No catching, no sounding out, it just clicked and he has been a voracious reader ever since. While this first […]
S1E8: My Top 10 Mommy Confessions
Here’s the truth, we all work so hard to make sure that we “appear” that we have it all together. When we have a friend coming over, we clean our house and have a shower and straighten our hair and put on makeup. By the time company has arrived, we have spent the whole day […]
S1E7: The Busy Mom’s Math
I’m busy, you’re busy, we’re all just trying to do our darndest to fit everything in. We all want the very best for our children, but let’s face it, we’re really just trying to survive right now! So I approach you from the trenches of survival, I yell across the battlefield of our respective homeschools […]
What’s the Big Deal with Bible Journaling?
Bible journaling: you’d think we would all know what that was, but it can be difficult to clearly identify when it can mean something different to everyone! One person might tell you that Bible journaling means journaling in a notebook about what they read in the Bible. Another might refer to it as writing out […]
Does My Bad Grammar Give Homeschooling a Bad Name?
I have noticed critiques on my blog about spelling and/or grammar. I am aware of the fact that I make mistakes in my writing, both in grammar and spelling (especially when I am writing passionately). Don’t get me wrong, I am not bothered when someone mentions a spelling error or grammatical error, in fact, it […]
5 Common Reasons our Children Can’t Focus on School
Imagine with me a homeschool room with three adorable children and teacher-mom in all her glory. The day is going well, albeit more like a relay race than a typical learning environment. Mom spends the entire morning bouncing from one child to the next: helping them, keeping them on track, cheering them on. It is […]
Refocusing on the Reason for the Season
Christmas is nearly upon us and I am struck anew by the sheer chaos of the season. Somehow, this month fills up without me even meaning to. There are Christmas parties and get togethers, and Christmas plays and cookie exchanges and company to prepare for… I was slightly panicked when I counted the days left […]
The Case for Hands on Learning
If there is anything I have learned in the past 5 years of homeschooling, it is that every child is SO different. After discovering my children’s learning styles (take the free quiz here), I was under the impression that only my kinesthetic learner needed a hands on approach to learning. As I began creating more […]
How to Cultivate a Thankful Heart
It is Thanksgiving and families everywhere are gathering together to feast and celebrate the things in their life they are thankful for. It is one of my favorite holidays because it doesn’t really have an ulterior motive or underlying seed of selfishness. There are no expectations of gifts, it is all about the three F’s: […]
How I Let Go of Public School Expectations
Here’s the deal, public school expectations are the killer of homeschool joy. They take all your ideas and passion and creativity and peace and freedom and put it into a little box that is much too tight and full of things like negativity, comparison, insecurity, and pressure. No one likes that box, it is not a […]
5 Reasons Illustrated Faith is the BEST Gift!
We all have those things, those gifts we love and secretly want but can’t really justify. Maybe it’s not in the budget, maybe we feel bad because it doesn’t serve a practical purpose or it’s just for us. Whatever it is, it is pretty much the BEST kind of present to receive! If you are […]
Home Piano Lessons for the Whole Family
Both my husband and I are musical and always knew that we wanted our children to be exposed to music when they were young. We had visions of music lessons and a music room full of instruments that the kids could try and learn at their fancy (said room was going to be soundproof of […]
An Unschooling Approach to Teaching Writing
When people hear the word ‘unschooling’ they sometimes write off the entire conversation. They picture kids playing video games all day long while mom reads a book and that is FAR from the truth. Unschooling, also known as child directed learning, is a form of education where the child is involved in their education. It […]
Art Journaling with Kids
Art journaling with kids is an amazing way to get your kids creative, expressing themselves, de-stressing, and build a love and appreciation for art. It is something we were first introduced to in our homeschool art curriculum, Home Art Studio, and I have been honestly blown away looking through my kids’ art journals. They have […]
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