As I was doing some preliminary packing and decluttering for our upcoming move, it dawned on me that I had never done a homeschool year recap for the blog! This past school year was one of the messiest and most relaxed years we’ve ever had. We incorporated screens, did a lot of free play, listened […]
Movies centered on animals are always a safe bet for family-friendly films. If you’re looking for something to watch on a sick day or rainy afternoon, try one of these these classic animal read-alouds on screen! I’ll always recommend previewing any films you plan to show little ones! If you don’t have the time to […]
One of the most intimidating parts of starting homeschool is the mysterious process of teaching a child to read. In our generation, literacy has been an affair handed over to professional teachers. It’s a process that most of us know little about, aside from our own childhood experience. So when our five-year-old isn’t reading Fox […]
This book list is a labor of love—fitting for the month of February, don’t you think? It took me a good two years to work through the potential candidates for this list! I abandoned many novels either for inappropriate content or being just a tad too cheesy. It’s hard to find romance that embodies the […]
Do you know what the broken window theory is? It’s a theory that says “visible signs of disorder and misbehavior in an environment lead to further order and misbehavior and eventually to serious crimes.” I have a “broken window” in my daily routine. Guess what it is? Lunch. Yes, years of poor planning and eating […]
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. Is it the most important? I don’t know, but it’s the coziest and it has the coffee. Hot, un-rushed family breakfasts are by far my favorite perk of a homeschooling day. I hope our family will always have warm memories of hearty pots of oatmeal and eggs […]
Welcome to my Christmas home tour! Even though I’m calling it a home tour, the only places that are really decorated are our living room, dining room, and entry. (Decorating isn’t cheap and it takes time to build a collection!) If you’re thinking my house looks exactly like it did last year, well, you’d be […]
The weekly re-set is one of my favorite Sunday rituals. After we go to the early service at church, we make a big brunch together as a family. (I can usually have it done and cleaned up by about 12:00 or so.) Then I’m ready to start my re-set once my son is down for […]
Throughout most of my time as a mother, laundry has always loomed in the background of my life. I dreaded gathering it from four corners of the house. I procrastinated sorting it. As for folding and putting it away, I chased the ever-elusive mirage of “catching up” on laundry. I just had in my head […]
This is a tour of my girls’ room and bath in our rental home in the Kansas City suburbs. There was a time when I decorated their rooms with many sweet and precious things like wooden dollhouses and vintage alphabet posters. (You can see some of that here.) Those were fun days. Now dolls and […]