In October my good friend babysat all three kids for me for several hours. When I went to pick them up from her house she asked me to stay f...

We recently completed the Wordly Wise series A, B, and C and have moved on to Wordly Wise 3000 workbooks. We first started these workbook...

So I'm in full blown costume making mode. And I have the spray painted fingers to prove it! We've usually gone simple for costumes b...

The goals: Finish First Language Lessons level 3 and 4 in one year's time and be prepared to move on to 5th grade grammar at the be...

We finally found our homeschooling groove! I wrote here about the general things that helped us find it. Now here are the specifics of what...

This is our 4th year homeschooling. I have seen it said that it usually takes 3-4 years to get your homeschool groove. This has been true...

Here we are at our fourth first day of school. I know it's cliche to say, but it really does seem like we just had our very first day ...

This month's Hoagies blog hop is about Overexcitiblites, something I have mentioned several times before on my blog. Both Builder Boy an...

Part 5 (and last one!) of my series wrapping up what we learned this year in different subjects and what each experience taught me about ho...

Part 4 of my series wrapping up what we learned this year in different subjects and what each experience taught me about homeschooling in ...

Part 3 of my series wrapping up what we learned this year in different subjects and what each experience taught me about homeschooling in ge...

I grew up in households that did not talk about emotions and expected you to stop strong emotions before they became a problem. It was the e...

Last year I wrote one post comparing what I had planned at the beginning of the year with what actually happened . This year I'm writ...

As a kid (and even now as an adult) I loved history and learning about how people lived so long ago. I could hardly wait to explore histo...

Looking back, Builder Boy was my "easy" baby. I had a baby milestone book that he never deviated from. He was always "right...

I had plans for this day; plans for this blog post. I was going to do what a fellow blogger did and take a picture on the hour, every hou...

Congratulations to Tiffani W. for winning the DORA and ADAM giveaway!! I hope it greatly blesses you and your child. Thank you everyone who ...

Does this picture make you wonder if I'm having company over or does it make you think "I would never want a picture of my couch...

When I first saw the new Disney Cinderella trailer , I knew I wanted to take the kids to see it in theater; and with Lady Bug dressed up...

It has been a year since I first had the boys take the Diagnostic Online Reading Assessment (DORA) from Let's Go Learn so we found ...