We spend the vast majority of our parenting journey teaching our kids to be nice. We teach them to be kind and caring. We read books on encouraging empathy in our kids and how to foster gentleness in them. It IS important for our children to learn tact, social etiquette and how to be independent members […]
Bringing a Sense of Wonder into our Homeschool
What if we could offer our kids an education that inspired them to wonder? What if we could stop teaching them how to think and what to learn and instead approach teaching like good seasoning– Where we give them just enough to whet their appetite and watch the spark fan into flame? This would be an […]
Unless Someone Like You Cares a Whole Awful Lot…
Have you ever had a moment where you felt you were being asked to do something big? Something beyond yourself and your immediate zone of comfort? I have a real heart for adoption. As some of you know, we can no longer have children, and while we are blessed beyond measure with the 5 beautiful, […]
10 Reasons I Love my Morning Quiet Time
I love mornings. Sometimes late at night I will be watching TV and see a coffee commercial pop up and I just want to go to bed so that I can wake up again! I love the peace of the morning, the cool crisp air, the hush that has fallen over our house like a snuggly […]
Speaking Words of Life Into My Kids
I want to tell you a story. A story about a goofy little toddler who is rarely dressed in anything resembling a decent outfit. She spends half the time wearing princess costumes and the other half completely naked. She is a wild mixture of chaos and gentleness and she is ALWAYS needing me. One afternoon, […]
Homeschool Looping {Explained and Examples}
I have a few dilemmas in the natural flow of my day. No matter how hard I schedule or plan, we continually seem to hit the same walls. I need some time to myself in the day. I have learned this the hard way. If my mornings are for work, my day time is for […]
The Best Nature Study Curriculum You Don’t Want to Be Without!
The face of homeschooling has changed. It used to be school emulated at home, with little workbooks and little desks and little tests and assignments. But as we discover more about the way children learn, the more we learn about the way they are wired: the less that method of teaching makes sense. While most of us […]
A Monthly Custom Designed Planner Straight to Your Inbox!
Have you heard about the planner circle and are wondering what this is all about? This is not just a group for people to share their planning ideas and spreads and inspire one another (though it is that as well, check out our group: the Planner Circle). This is a place where your ideas are […]
How to Make a Timeline for Your Homeschool
Timelines have long been used as a visual representation of the bigger picture. They help our kids see where events have happened and how that fits in with other important people or moments in history. Back when we were kids we used to have our timeline filling one of our homeschool room walls and would […]
DIY Homeschool Planner for the Artistically Challenged
Homeschool planning, it SHOULD fill us with a sense of peace, knowing that we are going to be organizing lesson plans and goals for the week/month or year. Instead, it often fills us with dread or just feeling completely overwhelmed. I talk a lot about planning on my blog. I share pictures and videos of […]
The Unmathematical Homeschool Mom’s Guide to Teaching Math
As a homeschool curriculum advisor (I help people choose curriculum), I have learned the top two subjects that strike dread into the heart of parent’s everywhere: math and language arts (watch this video to see my top recommendation for LA). Today I want to talk to the math moms (and dads) who might be reading this. […]
Womens Devotional and Bible Journaling Supplies
Bible journaling is becoming one of the newest fads inside Christian circles. It can vary from writing notes in your margins (which we have been doing for years) to complete art plastered all over the page of the actual scripture. There are some conflicting opinions on how far is “too far” with Bible journaling, but […]
10 Surprising Benefits of Teaching Our Kids to Cook
Spilled flour, eggshell pieces in the bowl, cut fingers and burned pots… this is what I picture when I think of my kids in the kitchen. I love the IDEA of teaching my kids to cook, but the actual follow through of that has been harder than I anticipated. Every time I let them “help” […]
Why A Beka Curriculum Did Not Work for Me
If you are a homeschooler you have probably heard about A Beka. They are one of the longest standing homeschool curriculum providers, and actually what I grew up using as a child. The books are bright and incredibly comprehensive and fill me with a nostalgic sense of comfort. My first year homeschooling I bought all […]
Why Don’t we Talk About the Cleaning Second Wind?
I am not a runner. I want to be a runner. I am kind of like run stalker, you know, in that I’m a walker 😉 I have talked to a few runners in my day, explaining that I get dizzy, blackout, chest pain. I mean, when I run, my body starts to shut down… […]
Hands On Curriculum That Will Make Science Fun Again!
Science curriculum gave me a bad taste in my mouth and I’m going to tell you why… it was either insanely overpriced (for just one grade mind you, and I needed 3) or boring as all get out. I was beginning to get discouraged with the whole idea, Science was supposed to be fun right? […]
7 Day Easy Crock Pot Meal Plan for Busy Families
Meal planning is a lot of work, I swear I spend about 2 hours just researching recipes that look appetizing. Then another 2 hours shopping and putting everything away. And then I still have to cook everything, sigh. But despite the dread I feel at the thought of taking a day to meal plan… I […]
25 Things You Need to Know About Homeschooling in Canada
If you are one of my many followers in the US, you might just be plain curious how it works up here in your sister-country and I am going to reveal ALL our secrets today. If you are new to homeschooling and live in Canada, you might be wondering where to start or what you […]
How I Plan and Organize My Homeschool Year
Planning, it is such a HUGE world it can be incredibly overwhelming. There are so many planner options out there, but it can be difficult to find what will work for you, especially if you are new to homeschooling or looking for a new planning method. I can’t tell you what will work for you […]
The Mountain of Motherhood
The mountain that’s in front of me never goes away. It is always looming, seeming to grow. I work hard to chip away at it. I make lists of things to do and strategies of how I will get it done and I sweat and I cry and I labor. Slow and steady, sometimes fast […]
8 Reasons I’m Not Going to Church this Sunday
I am a Christian and yet I am sitting in my home sipping coffee while other families are scrambling to get out the door to go to church. This is not a new thing, this is not the first time or even season in my life that I have been specifically choosing to have a […]
World Schooling… from Home!
I’m sure you have heard the popular form of education: world schooling. World schooling is essentially a form of homeschooling whereby your children are learning about the world around them through taking trips and traveling the world. While I’m sure we can all agree that this would be the most amazing way to learn about […]
20+ Lessons my Kids are Learning BECAUSE I Work from Home
Mom guilt is alive and strong when you work, especially when you are homeschooling or have young children at home! “How can you give your kids the full attention they deserve when you are working? Your kids are only young once, why can’t you wait until they are older? You are being selfish. You aren’t […]
Bullet Journaling in a Traveler’s Notebook
Bullet journaling is an amazingly simple way of planning your life, in a way that is completely customized for YOU. It is the only planning system I have ever found that worked for me long-term. In fact, I have been bullet journaling pretty consistently for the past 6 months, which is HUGE for me. I […]
How to Engage your Kids in Science
Kids love to explore, they love to experiment and guess and DO… which kind of makes Science the ideal subject for them. When we teach our kids Science we are generally giving them lots of room to make good guesses and test out their theories. They are learning facts about the world all around them, […]
Baby, Don’t Get Sick
Baby, don’t get sick when you leave the house. Don’t pick gum off the floor and put it in your mouth. Don’t drink from that sippy cup that we have never seen Don’t lick the shopping cart, you don’t know where that thing’s been! Baby, don’t get sick when we get into the car […]
Teaching Writing to Multiple Ages and Levels
I love to write, it comes very naturally to me. It is my favorite form of communication. I would far rather write a letter to someone than confront them in a conversation because I think more clearly when my thoughts are being translated by a pen. I love the feel of my pen on paper. […]
Meal Plan with Me: What’s for Dinner this Week
As I put together my meal plan for the week in my beautiful new Traveler’s Notebook, I went searching on Pinterest for not just nice photos, but recipes with rave reviews. With no AC and hot summer days up here, baking in the oven is simply not an option. And with my plan of homeschooling […]
Your Preschooler will Love this New, Bright Summer Printable Pack!
Summer is in full swing and yet I am sitting here and thinking about school. It doesn’t help that my preschooler asks me nearly every day to do school with her. Not to mention that we homeschool through the summer, kind of hard NOT to think about school in that case (read why here). I […]
5 Reasons We are Homeschooling Through the Summer (And What that Looks Like)
When I say we are homeschooling through the summer, I often get negative responses. Both in the homeschooling community and outside of it, there are those who can’t see the idea that doing school in the summertime as anything less than cruel. The sun is shining, there is so much to do, kids need a break, […]
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