101 Reasons in Favor of Flexible Homeschooling
I am an off the chart, type-A personality. I love schedules, plans, lists, boxes to check, etc. When I started homeschooling many moons ago I brought this rigidity with me (I was definitely not flexible homeschooling). I was hard and fast to follow curriculum and adhere to schedules, even if it meant stress and misery […]
4+ DIY Fidget Spinners
Fidget Spinners seem to be all the rage right now. Kids are loving them and teachers are loving to hate them. As homeschoolers we don’t have the kind of main stream pressure that public school kids do. Nonetheless we have seen the adds, watched them be given as birthday gifts, and heard all their friends […]
I ♥ Faces – “We ♥ Kisses”
I ♥ Faces weekly challenge is “We ♥ Kisses”. I don’t know about all of you reading this, but it seems to me if you have kids in your house, you can find pictures of them kissing someone! So I am digging back into the archives for a few flash back “kissing” pictures. This next […]
One of Those Days
I am having one of those days where nothing seems to go my way. In fact, I am having a whole week like that! I am so irritable that my senses are on overload. My hair that falls in my face like a mop makes me want to pull it out, or back, or shove […]
My Many Colored Days – Color & Feelings Unit
My Many Colored Days is one of my favorite children’s read alouds. It’s a wonderful way to talk with children about their feelings. And practice colors too! This is a collection of resources to help you share and enjoy My Many Colored Days with your children, while learning along the way!
Simple Woman’s Daybook….February 8th 2010
The Simple Woman’s Daybook FOR TODAY: February 08, 2010… Outside my window…the footprints in the sand are silent clues to the fun of another day that has past in our childrens’ lives. I am thinking…how wonderful it is that my parents’ have been married for 46 years today. I am thankful for…the science center we […]
Happy 46th Anniversary Mom & Dad
Tomorrow is my parents’ wedding anniversary. They will have been married for 46 years! I know for me, that seems like a lifetime. They are in the minority of people who can truly say they have spent their lives together. So in honor of their wedding anniversary, and in keeping with the NaBloPoMo theme of […]
Reasons Why We Home School
When people ask our children where they go to school, and get the response back from them, “We are home schooled”, we often get that questioning look. The look that says, “What planet are you from?”. Believe it or not we consider ourselves to be pretty mainstream. We did not choose to home school for […]
Flashback Friday – “Project Day”
We have been in our new house almost 2 years now. One of the things we love most is that there has been a minuscule amount of home improvement jobs to be done here. At our old house not only were there always projects to be done, but they were always big ones! From sanding […]
Ice Skating
With winter in full swing it can sometimes be hard to find places for the kids to get their energy out without breaking the “piggy” bank. Last year someone in our home school community started ice skating at a local arena. She posted the “event” to a couple of online home school groups that I […]
NaBloPoMo Day 2 – February 2nd -“Neck Tie” Edition #1
I have been doing a lot of thinking about creative ways to include the NaBloPoMo websites theme of “Ties” during my month of blogging. Today I would like to start with an obvious one, but one that has meaning in our house. Actual neck ties are worn by Joey for work on a daily basis. […]
Simple Woman’s Daybook…..February 1st, 2010
This is from Peggy at The Simple Woman’s Daybook. It is a list of questions to answer each Monday – a simple journal of sorts. FOR TODAY: February 1st, 2010… Outside my window…the sun is shining! I am thinking…where did January go? I am thankful for…having winter and thus snow as a part of our […]