During the holidays, our homeschool became less exacting. We focused more on cleaning, decorating, preparing gifts and cookies, than on letters and numbers. So it was with great surprise when this week I pulled out my son’s Kindergarten book to find it DONE. I went through it and was overjoyed to discover that he had [...]

It’s been awhile since I posted. I’d like to say I was on vacation or hard at work doing inspiring and amazing things. But… I haven’t been. I’ve been sitting at home with pregnancy exhaustion and nausea. And then… over the weekend, my two sweet babes came down with croup. Over the past few weeks [...]

My husband and I are making some changes this week… month… year. Fortunately we were already headed in, what we feel, was the right direction. Garden, Exercise, Scheduling, Family Prayer and Reading. Garden: Our 40′x40′ plot of dirt is taking shape. It is taking us ALOT longer than we thought to get our planting done. [...]

My husband and I are part of that crazy fringe group known as homeschoolers.  We love it. August 24, 2009 we started our first year of homeschooling.  Our son was only 3, but he was extremely driven and curious about the world.  A very quick learner, with an ABUNDANCE of energy, I found it very [...]