We are a book reading family. Jon would read from daylight to dark if we’d all stop bothering him, and Nicholas reads from daylight to dark even though we do bother him. We enjoy having a family read-aloud going which means that I read while the family listens. We’ve read dozens of [...]

When my oldest son, Nicholas, was a baby we planned to wait until his first birthday to cut his hair for the first time. I remember it was getting close to his eyes by six months, but it was never too bad. Another baby at our church was two months older than Nicholas. [...]

Thirteen Things I’m Cooking Today
1. turkey – We’re calling him Tom, and my four year old talks to him every time I open the oven to baste.
2. rolls – my favorite!
3. mashed potatoes – with salt, butter, and evaporated milk, mmm
4. sweet potatoes – baked and plain the way God made [...]

Have you ever read any children’s books by Margaret Wise Brown? She wrote delightful books such as Goodnight, Moon, The Sleepy Book, and Mister Dog, The Dog Who Belonged to Himself. Miss Brown, who never had any children of her own, lived from 1910 to 1952 and wrote hundreds of story books for [...]

Today I set myself a mission. A difficult mission but a mission with pleasant effects. Though I was initially overwhelmed and unwilling, I pressed on. It was time.
TO CLEAN MY DESK

Oh my. I’m in shock. Who let that desk get so messy? Oh, yeah, it was me.

When I joined the TOS Homeschool Review Crew, I knew I’d be receiving homeschooling curricula and educational items to review. I had no idea I would receive anything that was pure fun (not that education isn’t fun). We got the Crew message boards all set up in late September or early October, but [...]

Our first snow of this year fell in October, which was very surprising. Usually we don’t get flurries until mid to late November and no real snow until December, with the heavier falls coming in January and February.
Yesterday morning, however, we woke up to find about three inches of snow. Here is a [...]

Thank you so much to Coconut Palm Designs for giving me the Butterfly Award! It’s my first award, and I’m bloggably happy.
The rules for this award are:
1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate 10 other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on yours.
5. Leave [...]

As part of The Old Schoolhouse Crew, I received a book titled The Missing Link: FOUND from Media Angels, Inc. This book was written by Christina and Felice Gerwitz, a mother and daughter writing team and fellow homeschoolers. Christina was only 12 years old when she began to write this book, and it [...]

In honor of the 145th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Homeschool Freebie of the Day has challenged students to memorize this famous and moving speech. Every child who memorizes the speech will receive a surprise in the mail. My older son, age seven (almost eight) has worked hard to memorize it, and [...]