The helpful homeschool habit pressing on helps us focus on finishing well. Here is an example of our homeschool week and the great resources we have found to help our homeschool days with multiple ages. In our homeschool we are pressing on. There are a few subjects we have finished. And the calendar is filled […]
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Letting Go Of All The Stuff: Homeschool Mom Encouragement
Letting go of all the stuff we accumulate in our homeschools and our lives can be difficult. This is encouragement for homeschool mom looking to let go of the unnecessary and let God lead. Stuff. . .we all have it. . .some of us collect it more than others. I happen to have my share […]
How To Make a Homeschool Family Summer Wish List
This homeschool family summer wish list will get you going towards an ultimate summer of making memories and having fun for all ages! So it’s June. And if you’re like me, you let out a big sigh, ready to settle into the summer and just relax for a bit. There are a million thoughts in […]
A Parent’s Guide: Choosing a Family Title for Your Homeschool
Set the tone for your family with these fun and memorable ideas for creating a title for your homeschool family. This even includes idea for naming the rooms in your home! Your tone, your adjectives. How you talk about your family places value. Early in our parenting, we learned about a very simple, yet highly […]
Homeschooling High School Learning Styles
There are so many wonderful ways to meet homeschool high school learning styles. Use these ideas and examples for your high schooler’s homeschool day as well! I find myself in the countdown to graduation of my second high schooler! Can you believe that the graduation cap and gown has shipped and is on its way […]
Getting Away: Great Ideas for Anniversary Trips
These are practical tips and great ideas for anniversary trips. Plan to get away and do something extra special together to celebrate your marriage. My husband and I decided before we were married not to give each other gifts for our anniversaries. Instead, we decided to take the money that would have been spent on […]
The Habit of Rest for the Homeschool Mom
Just rest, Mama. The Lord has been reminding me that rest is what I need. He’s been reminding me of the habit of rest. His habit of rest. He’s been telling me for several weeks. Step back and rest. –> Step out of the urgent into the quiet, out of your regular spot. Look to […]
Getting Away: Homeschool Family Travel Tips
Getting away with your family is a wonderful memory making opportunity! Here are the best homeschool family travel tips! Something about the 40 degree breezes of early spring makes me dream of vacation. I don’t know if it was growing up in a tiny town, or the two thousand mile trek across the country in […]
Could Your Child Be Dyslexic? A Homeschool Mom’s Guide
Could your child be dyslexic? There is help and much hope! Some of the most brilliant entrepreneurs and artists have dyslexia! Today, it is with great pleasure that I welcome Marianne Sunderland of Homeschooling with Dyslexia. I have been so very much looking forward to her visit! I know that several of my readers have […]
Nana’s Southern Fried Okra Recipe
I really feel quite silly authoring a post on fried okra. Southern cooks learn how to make this dish usually the same way that their Mamas made it. Goodness gracious, there are a lot of ways to cook fried okra and a lot of opinions on how to cook this famous vegetable! But here goes. Here […]
Favorite Summer Games Resources for Your Homeschool
Learn all about the history of The Games, the city the games are held, sports in general, what it takes to become an Olympian and much more with these summer games resources for your homeschool! The Summer Games are back! Are you ready? We are! And we are excited. Twelve years ago we began our […]
Simple Summer Reading Ideas to Encourage Reluctant Readers
Okay, so maybe reading isn’t at the top of the my kids’ to-do lists this summer, but it is always at the top of mine. I’m hopeful that if we make it a little more fun and collaborative, they’ll think summer reading is as fun as I do. Simple Summer Reading Ideas to Encourage Reluctant […]
How to Make a Wagon Garden
Somethin’ different…Ok, ok, I know that the following tutorial is NOT about pastel painting but it is summer time and it is time for a different type of fun project. So, this is a great backyard tutorial on how to make a wagon garden! How to Make a Wagon Garden Now this garden can be […]