For the Love of Jen Hatmaker

This post is part of Jen Hatmaker’s “For the Love” Blog Tour which I am delighted to be a part of along with many other inspiring bloggers.  To learn more and join us, CLICK HERE. Despite my best intentions, I am being sucked into the Jen Hatmaker vortex. My first intersection with Jen’s writing was through […]

{Review and Giveaway} CC Cycle 3 Teaching Plan

  We’re heading into our fourth year in Classical Conversations which means this is our second time in Cycle 3. Much has changed since the last time I was thinking about Cycle 3. The amount of kids I’m schooling tripled, and I cut my available school planning by at least twice that. However, I also […]

{Review} Tadeo Turtle

Tadeo Turtle is a charming story of a little turtle who desperately wants to be like his friends who can jump and run. Through a dream, he realized how special God had made him and why. It’s a short story but the water color illustrations are captivating. The book also includes unit study type activities […]

{Review} Navigation the Explosion

You all may remember my new friend, Allison, from this year’s Adoption Blogger Interview Project. Today she released a new book called Navigating the Explosion. This books takes the adoptive Mother through the adoption process and life afterwards with encouraging letters from moms who have been there.     As a mom who’s in an […]

{Review} Brain Bubble TV

Brain Bubble TV is a YouTube channel that contains 60 second educational clips. New clips are published every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Themed compilations of 40 to 60 clips can be downloaded via their website. From the Brain Bubble TV website: All of our Brain Bubble video clips are professionally narrated and produced by the Emmy Award-winning […]

{Review and Giveaway} Born From the Heart

November is National Adoption Month. November 23rd is National Adoption Day. I was recently received a complimentary copy of the book Born from the Heart by Berta Serrano to review. It’s described by the publisher as “is an emotional journey of two people becoming parents through the process of adoption, showing how some children may […]

{Review} Adoptive Parent Intentional Parent

Stacy starts her book by telling her family’s story.  Like many families (including ours), hers was blindsided by the unique needs of kids from trauma.  Busy families in the “trenches” will appreciate the format of this resource. It’s apparent that Stacy has indeed been in your shoes at some point over her 12 years of […]

{Review} Vocabulary Spelling City

When we started homeschooling, PJ was already spelling above grade level and Mia wasn’t reading yet. I falsely assumed that she needed to be reading better to spell so we started the year without spelling. Then, I started doing more research and realized that reading could be taught using encoding (spelling) and decoding (reading). We […]