Last year after I admitted my struggle with lapbooks, Karen over at Wisdom and Righteousness, reached out and offered to get me hooked. Actually she was much humbler than that. Either way, she agreed to give me a complimentary set for Cycle 1 in exchange for a review and some blog love. Given Mia’s learning...
If you read this post, you know scheduling and I had this love/hate relationship last school year. With 3 new kids joining the schooling clan this year, I knew scheduling was going to have to become my new best friend. I recently finished a 3-day practicum for CC. It was brutal on our schedule but...
As we drove through the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, we couldn’t help wondering… Wouldn’t it be nice if HOA stood for the Homes for Orphans Assocation? Wouldn’t it be nice if they took all the energy they use fighting the evilness of sheds and channeled it toward finding families for kids who are living...
Here are what our upcoming 2nd (Mia) and 4th (PJ) graders will be doing. Our Kindergartner, will be doing ABCs at Home. Our ESL Middle Schoolers will be doing…yeah, I wish that was organized enough to tell you. Bible/Christian Studies We re-enrolled in Community Bible Study (CBS), where our community will be studying Luke. They have age-appropriate homeschool...
These conversations really happened within 10 minutes of each other. ************************** Ty: Mom, what do berries look like? Me: Well there are lots of types of berries. Some are small and round. Others are large and bumpy. Ty: But, Moooooom! What kind of berries? Me: What do you mean, ‘what kind of berries?’ That doesn’t make...
I know a lot of you have been asking or wondering if we have an update about the big kids. Most commonly asked is “when are they coming home?” Trust me if I knew something, I would be yelling it from the rooftops. But, alas, we are in that no man’s land called “DID NOT...
Below you will find a widget with all the books you need for the ABC’s at Home curriculum. Amazon.com Widgets
I’m excited to introduce the curriculum Ty will be using next year (along with Classical Conversations) because, well, I wrote it. Yeah. This post is totally to toot my own horn and unashamedly ask you to check it out. Why? Because I think it’s great and because it can probably use all the constructive criticism...