Growing up in the country makes the idea of going green pretty easy for me. My grandmother preached ‘waste not, want not’ to us, so I find it easy to pass that on to my children as well.
1. Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
My children are exposed from a young age on how to use our resources wisely. We pass [...]
Summer is quickly drawing to a close. The new school year is just around the corner, for some of us it may have already begun. Today’s links are aimed at helping us prepare for the exciting year before us, addressing teenagers, motivation, workboxes and lapbooks. May you have an abundantly blessed school year.
Scriptures on Scripture [...]
In the next few weeks, our school year will come to an end. As we are finishing the last pages of the math workbook, or gluing down the last piece of the lap book, I am ridiculously sentimental about the ending of our first year of homeschooling.
I wish I was one of those mothers who [...]
Homeschooling parents have a unique advantage because they can tailor design their children’s education. They can choose for it to be about more than just educating their children’s minds, but also about educating their hearts and souls, about teaching them how to be good people in the world. I am sure this is why many [...]
Since homeschooling families tend to spend the majority of their waking hours together, if we’re not careful, our children’s birthdays can end up resembling a regular day, especially if their birthday falls on a school day. To celebrate our children’s birthdays, I like to put forth a little bit of time and effort, but not [...]
I’m not sure how many of you have noticed my absence but I’ve not written since February. It seems like longer to me but it hasn’t been. We recently went through some really hard times and to be honest it was all I could do to keep my head above water. Our spring homeschooling schedule [...]