A peaceful spot. The boys examining a slug while listening to the birds. Keep calm and count on. Encouragement posted above my coffee pot. You may remember, earlier in the week, I had a refocus? This has been the week for everything. Every possible event (and still going). But, they are each and every one […]
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Tips and Tricks for Online Time
This week began our December school time habits. Earlier in the week, I shared how we Take December Off. Really, it’s a mindset. We don’t really take off, lazing around all day. We act like homeschoolers, enjoying many Advent activities, taking advantage of unit study type learning, carrying on with math here and there and […]
I’m Four. Let’s Go Some More.
“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. […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Review Week + Hodgepodge Helpful Habit
1. Fun Sunday afternoon trip to Michael’s with Eldest Girl included duck tape and then Starbucks | 2. Shark Birthday Girl | 3. Sunny SunButter picnic | 4. Reading Homeschooling Gifted and Advanced Learners – review soon! | 5. AiG Human Body unit study Nutrition, vitamins, minerals and circulation this week | 6. Learning scientific […]
Tapestry of Grace Unit Review with Lapbook
What’s a lapbook? I had no idea what to do with one when we first began our Tapestry of Grace days. So, we figured it out together, as a family. Now, it’s a time we look forward to each Tapestry unit. Tapestry of Grace lapbooks are available for each unit – four lapbooks for each […]
Holiday Entertaining Guide by $5 Dinner Mom
Erin Chase, the $5 Dinner Mom, has put together a simple holiday entertaining guide to help you be the best hostess or guest during this holiday season. This guide is the antidote to every other holiday entertaining guide out there. And it’s packed with the same help and love you get from $5 Dinners every […]
New Recipe Index and the Hodgepodge Family Cookbook
“Memories…the food of our childhood; food that meant love.” ~ Susan Branch I’d like to think that I grew up grateful for what I had. Grandmothers and a mama who loved to make wonderful food to fill our tummies. Special dishes made for holidays. If I didn’t show my gratitude then, I sure hope it […]
Balancing the Needs of the Age Range + Helpful Habit
Someone discovered he really likes blue kool aid. This week was chocked full. I’m still finding the days fly by as I am aiming to balance the needs of the age range. Preschooler. Kindergartener. 4th grader. 7th grader. 8th grader. Plus I have this little passion for taking pictures. Plus, we have to stay busy […]
Making Prayer a Priority by Melanie Robbins
God answered my son’s prayer for a $85 dollar Lego set with a YES. He found 70 dollars on the ground and with that and what he had in spending and recycling money he was within one dollar of the amount he needed. God showed Nathan that He definitely cares about him (my son is […]