Its the most gorgeous time of the year! I am SO living this fall weather and we are spending most of our days outside. The trees are STUNNING this year where we live! What can you do for homeschooling in the Fall? Now is the PERFECT time for nature study with trees and their leaves! Make leaf rubbings, collect acorns
I have to be open and completely honest here I accidentally came upon Touch Points a couple of weeks ago. I started reading about them and quite frankly they seemed wayyy too good to be true. I mean what does neuroscience have to do with stress reduction? I didn’t really know but when I started reading about the studies done
Alrighty, I know we ALL get stressed out at some points in our lives. I mean life is BUSY! And full and CRAZY a lot of the time. But if you’re stressed out all the time that’s not good for you or your family. Ask me how I know that…😳😟 and this summer I hit a wall I couldn’t just
Ok I know that title is a little odd.. I mean how often do we go to animals to teach us about how to homeschool and parent? But I gotta tell you, there’s a lot we can learn from them! Read on to find out what a mama bear can teach you about homeschooling AND parenting! Disclaimer: this post contains
Ok, so first off, I want to just give a disclaimer here. I’m not a potty training expert, or an early childhood development “expert”. I’m just a mom of 4 kids under 9 who I’ve successfully potty trained. So, if you’re looking for advice from someone who’s been to school for this you’re outta luck, sorry! If instead you’re looking
If this spring has taught me anything at all, its that I was not prepared or self-sufficient enough. So, in many ways this crisis has been somewhat beneficial. My husband and I both come from very rural backgrounds and we currently live on 4th generation land of my husband’s family in rural central U.S. But quite frankly, we had been
This year has seen unprecedented amounts of children staying home from “traditional public school”. But contrary to what many may believe there is a HUGE difference between homeschool and virtual public school. What is the difference and which one should you choose? Disclaimer: I use affiliate links of products i love and personally use! What is a homeschool? First of
I have to be perfectly blunt right now I’d rather be sitting here enjoying the gorgeous weather we’re having than writing a blog post😝 But I do want to address what homeschooling is going to look like for us in the year 2020-2021. Disclaimer: I use affiliate links of products I love and personally use! What is homeschooling? Basically in
Ok so this article about homeschooling is going to be fun and a bit tongue in cheek so don’t take me too seriously. 5 Ways to Turn Your Best Friend off of Homeschooling So now you just absolutely love homeschooling and your best friend is considering it. This is really a HUGE thing right now with all the covid mess
A few weeks ago I gave everyone a little update on how we all are doing. This week I thought it would be best to do a garden update! This one makes me smile. We get our eggs from my lovely friend Cassie and this gorgeous egg was in there! These pictures are now a little old. Oops! Our tomatoes