I’ve been purposefully avoiding this blog for some time now. And although I knew my avoidance was intentional, I couldn’t place my finger on my reasons for doing such. I knew there was a culmination of reasons, but why or how they all tied together to bring me to this place was an equation I [...]
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First Day of the New Homeschool Year
Posted 23 August 2011 by adminTagged As: children, Homeschooling, parenting | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Parenting, Products | Leave a Comment
Well, yesterday marked our first official day of the new homeschool year. And, if I do say so myself, it was a complete success. We were able to stay mostly within the guidelines of our family schedule, only making minor changes to accommodate for a sleeping baby and later an unintentional sleeping toddler. The day [...]
Moore Mcguffey Readers
Posted 11 August 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling, Literature | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Things I Love | Leave a Comment
This is a totally dorky post and almost completely pointless. However, for no good reason benownst to me, I’m thrilled about having my boys read these books this upcoming school year… Thankfully, my mom kept a lot of books from when we were growing up and when they had moved a few years ago and [...]
My Minimalist Step #1
Posted 11 August 2011 by adminTagged As: | Categories: Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Yesterday I wrote a post “I Want to be a Minimalist” and today I took the first step towards that process. I’m hoping that my small victory will just be a stepping-stone to the next small victory. So, do you want to hear my grand ol’ victory for today? I cleaned out my portion of [...]
I Want to be a Minimalist
Posted 10 August 2011 by adminTagged As: Clutter, Minimalist, organization | Categories: Life, Minimalist Living, Organization | 1 Comment
It’s true. For years I’ve had this deep passion to purge about 90% of this materialistic junk that clutters up my life. But I haven’t done it yet. Why? Well…part fear, part laziness, and part sentimental bondage. I don’t think there’s a single item that we don’t own excess of. Whether it be shoes, underwear, [...]
Living an Ordinary Life in an Extraordinary Way
Posted 9 August 2011 by adminTagged As: faith, Homemaking, Life, Serving | Categories: Faith, Homemaking, Life, Serving | 1 Comment
Every time I wash my floors, I’m reminded of what another mother once said at church. She had shared that she often struggled with feeling like her role as mother was insignificant. That her days filled with diapers, runny noses, dishes and laundry were void of anything important. That she longed to be used by [...]
Family Schedule
Posted 9 August 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling, organization, schedule | Categories: Children, Homemaking, Homeschooling, Organization, Schedule | Leave a Comment
So, some time back I wrote a post “Preparing for Homeschooling” and I desperately wanted to include our family schedule that I spent so much time planning out. However, since I’m totally learning as I go with this whole website thing, I couldn’t figure out how to post that schedule here. But finally I figured [...]
Countdown to School
Posted 8 August 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling | Categories: Homeschooling | Leave a Comment
Last week I sat down with a calendar so I could plan out the school year’s lesson plans…a few days off for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks off for Christmas, a few extra “free” days, and about 2 weeks off for after the baby is born in February. Well, since the 2010-2011 school year went well into June for us [...]
A Grandma’s Legacy
Posted 28 July 2011 by adminTagged As: family, Sewing | Categories: Sewing | 1 Comment
A few years ago I had asked my grandma to teach me how to sew. All growing up I had so many fond memories of the wonderfully creative and beautiful things my grandma would sew up for us kids. There were new Christmas ornaments every year for each child, the tree skirt under our tree, [...]
Preparing for Homeschooling
Posted 27 July 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Things I Love | Leave a Comment
Lately I’ve been consumed with planning out the upcoming school year. My 6 year old will be starting the second grade and my 4 (almost 5) year old will be starting the first grade. As if that doesn’t sound crazy enough, add an energetic 3 year old, an attention-loving 1 year old, and a pregnant [...]
