When our ancient fridge (talking the 1980s) recently died, we got a beautiful stainless steel upgrade that features an easy-access drawer in the center. Inside there are three refrigerated compartments were I keep the kids’ breakfast / anytime snacks, lunches and after school snacks (treats). The kids are free to prepare their own breakfasts whenever…
Back a couple of years ago, I posted a picture on Instagram of a basket with Christmas books inside. Several people messaged me to ask how our “Christmas basket” functioned. This question left me perplexed. In short, if we wanted to read a Christmas book, we’d get one; then we’d read it. That was the…
Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season and start to the new year. We eased back into homeschooling this past week. Josie got acquainted with a new speech and language therapist; we resumed violin lessons, and a bunch of other stuff that I can’t remember possibly also happened. Yep. The baby is a super crawler…
The girls performed in a Christmas concert with their homeschool string orchestra this week. They’ve been practicing a ton; we’re so proud! The first two clips below have both girls playing violin, and the third video is the extra piece that just Josie’s group learned. We are so blessed to participate in such a wonderful…
‘Tis the season to read umpteen posts in mom forums that begin, “We don’t do the Santa thing…” and blogs across the world will twist together the words Santa with deception and lies. On the opposite hand, we have all those angry folks talking about robbing kids of magic. If one thing is for certain…
We logged a lot of hours homeschooling this week. We normally take December completely off for a breather. However November had a lot of off days, so I decided to homeschool on. The beauty of homeschooling is you can take a break when you need to and come back to it when you’re ready to…
Round these parts we’ve been frantically baby proofing for the newly mobile six-month-old. There’s never, ever enough hours in a day. We typically take a break from homeschooling in December, but with so many unintentional breaks in November, I thought it’d be best if we just power onward with tons of review. I have every…
After seeing a lot of beautiful seasonal traditions on Instagram, I decided I wanted to try making a spiral with my kids this year. This activity leans more Waldorf-y than Montessori, but an Advent spiral can be a beautiful, hands-on and concrete manner of marking the days until Christmas. We made a simple salt dough,…
Heads up: there are a couple Amazon Influencer affiliate links (at no cost to you) for our Christmas book list in this post. 🙂 Tis the season to get ready for the reason for the season. My kids are really into tongue twisters right now; I should give them that to say 10 times fast….
Boy have I been a terrible blogger lately or what? Regardless of post frequency, we have been keeping very busy — as a homeschooling family of six is wont to do. Halloween and Disney continued to throw our October routine off, so we’ve adapted school time. I thought I’d give a few snapshots of what…
