“Push me high! Push me high and we’ll fly all the way up to the moon,” …he says through giggles on a sunny Saturday before his birthday number four. Just Wednesday he rode on a train around a mountain. The boy has to go. Loves things that move. It’s pure boy joy. Build a road. […]
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What is Your Song? Guest Post by April Baldwin
Today we welcome April Baldwin, precious friend and fellow homeschool mother of four. In these last months, she and her family have traveled a difficult road. We are daily blessed by her faith and are privileged to have her share her story with us…Do you know how great and majestic is the God of the […]
Fast Food for Slow Sundays: Cream Cheese Chicken Spaghetti
“Can we have chicken packets?” Sure! I said. Until I realized we didn’t have the crescent rolls called for in our favorite, easy recipe. Hmmm. How about the chicken and cream cheese mixture over spaghetti noodles? I was skeptical. But at supper I heard,”Can we have chicken packet spaghetti every week?” Great for left over […]
Helpful Habit: When do you shop?
A look at our week: 1. Notes tucked in Operation Christmas Child boxes | 2. Weather Kid & Junior Joker Middle Girl – on 104.7 The Fish (Click and listen below!) | 3. Pones of cornbread for Thanksgiving dressing | 4. Faux Pecan Pie – allergy-friendly Thanksgiving | 5. 1,000 Gifts App – free – […]
The ABCs of Thanksgiving
A – All things bright and beautiful. B – Birds at the feeder. Boys and trains. C – Cranberry sauce! Cornbread. D – desks in our homeschool room. E – Each of these! F – Family. Friends. Freedom. Faux Pecan Pie. Football this weekend. G – God’s Goodness. H – Home. Hand print turkeys. I […]
November World
Our November nature study grid has enjoyed a special spot on the chalkboard above the kitchen table. It’s easy to glance up then turn and take notice of our November world. One of the nature suggestions was to take a walk in the rain. So, one wet Wednesday we did just that. The Wednesday the […]
Tree Silhouette: A Pastels Tutorial
We were admiring the maple tree in the backyard… …noticing how beautiful the yellow leaves were against the gray sky. Nana said she could show us how to capture the beauty of the tree in chalk pastels. Using an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper, we drew the line for the ground about 3/4 […]
Candy-labra: Candy Cane Candle Holder
One Friday night, Nana and I made candy cane candlestick holders. She found this neat project on The Mother Huddle. What you will need: a pack of 20 candy canes hot glue gun (Nana did this part) ribbon candles First we hot glued the candy canes to a candle. Then we made sure they were […]
Anticipating…
On Sunday we’ll sit ‘round on the couches to begin advent. We’ll start reading Tabitha’s Travels, the much anticipated sequel to Jotham’s Journey and Bartholomew’s Passage. Each day this week brings us closer. How wonderful that we give thanks first. Isn’t that how we should? Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with […]
Fast Food for Slow Sundays: Slow Cooker Tilapia Packets
Hands down our favorite way to eat fish. The slow cooker way! Individual filets are placed in foil packets. So clean up is easy too. Mix up the topping. Place a little on each side of the filet. Wrap the foil around. Tuck them all in together in the slow cooker. Cook over several hours. […]
Review Week 2 + Helpful Habit
1. Middle Girl got a new devotional – it’s ok math was delayed a little each day. | 2. History review with Tapestry of Grace lapbook | 3. Rise and shine it’s biscuit time! | 4. Lots of leaves | 5. Fun fact about red blood cells from AiG Science: Human Body | 6. Sunset […]
Steering home
It began as a game. Driving home from some activity one afternoon, I said to our eldest daughter, “Steer us home. You are responsible for telling me what direction to go at every intersection.” We do this occasionally with each of the three eldest children. We have always made it home. Sometimes we run in […]
Steering Home
It began as a game. Driving home from some activity one afternoon, I said to our eldest daughter, “Steer us home. You are responsible for telling me what direction to go at every intersection.” We do this occasionally with each of the three eldest children. We have always made it home. Sometimes we run in […]