I started many books but finished only three this month. It was a busy, fall-ish month (here it is in pictures) with family coming in to town, getting organized to host Thanksgiving, and prepping for Advent. Perhaps the greatest wrecker of my free reading time this month was a sweet baby boy with a cold […]
November was a wonderful month. This is when we get fall around here, which is so very welcome after September and October (which are basically just elongated summer months here in the valley!) I learned through reading a lot of L.M. Montgomery how much she hates November, which I guess must be pretty depressing in […]
As home educators we face the unique challenge of having our homes be our living spaces as well as our classrooms. While there are advantages to having a separate space for school (I sometimes fantasize about how nice it would be to just close the door on the mess), I decided to take a holistic […]
This post may contain affiliate links. Taking charge of our children’s education can be both empowering and daunting. Many of us turned down this road looking for options in education but found ourselves wading through cluttered websites, confusing curriculum spreadsheets, and state standards. While there are many paths to research and consider, most of us […]
It’s been SO long since I did a reading post! I missed these! I think the last one I did on the blog must have been a couple (gulp, THREE) years ago! In between time, I did a lot of book posts to Instagram and you can find them archived under my hashtag #fayesreads. You […]
Hello friends! Are you here from Instagram? A lot of you are because there’s where I’ve been doing the majority of my posting for the last few years! For a while I was really focused on learning Instagram and growing a following there. I liked some of that, but it left me a very narrow […]
I felt inspired to write a newsy life update today. I love going back and reading old posts like these. (I actually have about eight year’s worth now!) A lot of this is lengthy notes from Baby Land, where I know I will lose some of you, but my long time followers tell me they […]
Hey friends, it’s countdown to baby time over here, but I really wanted to get this post up before things get too crunched! It’s fun to look back on the year and see how much things have grown and changed in our homeschooling life. And how different our homeschool space looks now! Wrapping up a […]
I know all of you who are familiar with our recent kitchen saga have been waiting so long for a kitchen reveal! I have been dreaming of the day I could write this post myself. Well. It was a very, very slow process. My kitchen is now totally updated and redesigned, but it happened so […]
Well, here it is! The post where I tell you guys what materials and curriculum we are using for first grade (with an excited preschooler tagging a long!) We have dropped things I was just sure we would love, while picking up some unexpected additions. Our plan has been ever-evolving, as we follow the […]