That could pretty much be the entire blog post right there. Read good books. The end. It seems too good to be true. Too simple. How can anything truly produce good results if it doesn’t make us want to pull our hair out from time to time? While there is value in suffering – that’s […]
Special Needs Gift Giving Guide
(blog post contains affiliate links) Buying gifts for a special needs child can be a challenge. Especially as the child gets older, but perhaps skill and ability are not growing at the same pace. I like to find games and activities that appeal to a wide age range. That way our special needs kids can […]
Fall Homeschooling Slump
Say what? Who has a homeschooling slump in the fall? In all of our years of homeschooling (11 so far!). I, we, have never had such a dramatic slump in the middle of fall. January, February, or March? Of course. Especially when we lived in Michigan. Limping along at the end of May? You bet. […]
Tweaks to Our Morning Routine
(Affiliate links) The first few minutes of the day set the stage for the rest of the day. Am I right?? For the most part our morning routine was okay, BUT, just not where I wanted it to be. I wanted to try a few small tweaks to our homeschool morning routine to stack the […]
My Favorite BASIC Homeschool Supplies
(contains affiliate links) Back to school time makes my heart go pitter patter. I love, love, love school supplies, office supplies, and planning supplies – but, I do NOT love clutter. Having 6 children and homeschooling 5 of them means by nature we have clutter. It’s a constant battle to keep things pared down, but […]
Power Hour Binder & Resources (Geography & Nature Terms)
This year I’m planning to be more intentional about our Power Hour (Morning Time) time. We are doing (roughly) six weeks on and six weeks off. So, each six weeks we are schooling will have its own focus. I tried to work our Power Hour around our Rule of Six. Our Power Hour is the […]
Middle, Elementary, Special Needs Homeschool Curriculum 2016-2017
(affiliate links) Wrapping up the homeschool year for me includes completing a bulk of my planning for the following year. I like to get it done early so I don’t spend the summer thinking about our curriculum! As you will notice, I’m only mentioning 5 kids in my curriculum line-up. Our oldest opted to try […]
Summer Reading for Homeschooling Moms
(affiliate links) We are finishing up our last week of the school year! Notice I didn’t say we have everything “done”, I said we are finished. We don’t have a certain number of days that we have to complete here in Florida, but our portfolios have been reviewed (yippee!) and we have completed 37 weeks […]
Reviving a Homeschool Mom’s Soul
In January we made an unexpected trip to Michigan. Our longtime friends, as in best friends even BK (before kids), lost a parent. We dropped everything so we could make it up for the funeral. We rented a minivan to drive up and due to my husband’s often travel, had enough miles for all of […]
Great Books for Teenage Boys
(affiliate links) Homeschoolers are supposed to all be voracious readers, right? All homeschooled children walk around with their nose in a book – at least that is the stereotype. Somehow my teenage boy missed that memo! I haven’t given up hope that someday my son will enjoy reading, maybe even love it? Until then I […]
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