In my time with family over Christmas and in these days leading up to the new year, I have been reflecting. Reflecting on God’s goodness. His constant provision. His direction and love over our family, our homeschool. We started with a clean slate planning and dreaming for the new year. We sat down as a […]
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Books for Tapestry of Grace
How do you choose the books for Tapestry of Grace was a question I answered often as a Tapestry booth hostess at homeschool conventions. A Tapestry of Grace Year Plan offers an extensive list of resources for your family. It is a buffet of wonderful offerings. In our years with Tapestry, we have never read […]
Homeschooling Book Extras
Welcome to the clickable listing of our favorite resources for homeschooling, parenting and family life. An expanding list of Help! I’m Homeschooling! Book Extras. These are tried and true for you! Help! I’m Homeschooling Book Extras ~Any affiliate links included are for resources we absolutely love and truly depend on. Please see our disclosure […]
High School Homeschool Curriculum Choices
I have shared the span from preschool to middle school – our curriculum choices for each age and stage. Now we reach high school. We have now graduated three high schoolers and have two more to go! I am so very thankful my husband and I have the privilege of this time with our young […]
Night Classes and Other Benefits of Homeschool
Though I share about homeschool habits almost every week here at Hodgepodge, ours seem to be changing daily! We have those habits we are grounded in but these days we are rearranging to meet the needs of our age range of children. Adapting to changing learning needs. Like night classes and other benefits of homeschool. […]
How To Blog in 15 Minutes
Keeping my priorities in order is a priority. So, finding time for actually writing posts can be a big problem in a homeschool, blogging mama world. There is just no such thing as long, peaceful stretches of time to write. (If you’ve found the answer, please share). So, I will offer my solution. How to […]
Essential Oils Organization
Here at Hodgepodge it seems we are in a constant state of finding out how things work best. The best homeschool spaces for learning, the best arrangement of our days and the best organization so that we can find things quickly. Organization is a constant in our large-ish family household. So when I came across […]
5 Freedoms of Homeschooling
My family and I often appreciate the freedoms of homeschooling. I’ve been thinking on those quite a bit this last week. As we’ve started, slow and steady back to school, I’ve been pausing on the freedoms. Plus we’ve experienced some big milestones dropping our eldest off at college and starting 3rd, 5th, 9th and 12th […]
5 Reasons Why We Are Such a Hodgepodge
Have you ever wondered about the story behind the blog name Hodgepodge and the mixture that makes us what we are? If so, please read on because I share with you five reasons we are such Hodgepodge. See, even before 2008, I really wanted to blog. But it wasn’t until August of that year that […]
Habits for the New Year
It’s time for a look back at the top posts for this year. To start with, the list of the top overall posts for 2015. Many of these can help with habits for the new year. Interesting that the majority of these are classic posts and tutorials shared earlier than 2015. Because of that I […]
Helpful Homeschool Habit: Start Something New
Though we are half way through September, I feel like we keep having fresh starts. This is the year to start something new. Yes, it is so good to stick with what works, but on this homeschool journey our days are always changing with growing children. Different needs. New seasons. Geography in the family room. […]
Back to Hodgepodge Homeschool
We are back to Hodgepodge Homeschool in full force in September! We have been stepping back in here and there for the last weeks. There are many things I want to share with you, my friends, since I have been practicing the habit of rest for about six weeks now. I have homeschool things to […]
Apologia Science for All Ages
We love our Apologia science for all ages. Are you thinking about homeschool science for next year? This gives you a picture of the Apologia resources we are using for all the ages in our homeschool. (We also love IKEA storage for homeschool – as you can tell by this photo.) My elementary students and […]