This year has been a GREAT year! It is our 2nd year using The Good and the Beautiful and it has been our best choice in curriculum ever! My kids enjoy it…and I enjoy it! It takes no prep time and the stories are all beautiful and kind. I am kinda obsessed with Jenny Phillips […]
December 2018 we moved from our beautiful home that we built, poured countless hours making it beautiful, brought our kids home to, and have lived in and loved for the past 14 years. It was an emotional decision, but Travis and I both knew it was time. By selling our house, it would help to […]
Hiatus: a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc. Does a mom ever really take a hiatus??? No, but I have taken one recently from blogging. I don’t know why I have taken such a long break….I love posting our adventures and my hobbies on this site….but there comes certain […]
So being homeschoolers we don’t have a class to have a party each holiday, we don’t have assemblies, we don’t have an award for perfect attendance….there are some fun school things that the kids do miss out on. THAT IS WHY it is important to make homeschooling FUN! Each holiday we take a day off […]
I used to dreaaaaaaad oral reports when I was younger. To stand in front of a classroom and give a report made my nerves on end! I would get a stomach ache and literally be sick about it!!! I still don’t love to talk in front of a group, but guess what….I am really really […]
How proud and excited was I when I went out in October and found my first itty bitty egg from my little banty chickens. I seriously love the bantam breed of chickens. They are so gentle and small and cute…which I think all my chickens are cute, but these chickens are little so anything little […]
One part of our homesteadin’ ways is the hubs has a beekeeping hobby that he loves! He has had beehives for the past 4 years. We all love the bees and appreciate all that they do for our world…and when a hive dies – ahhhhh it is like 10,000 little pets have died. It’s painful. […]
We are members of 3 homeschool groups…have I said this before???…forgive me. Anywho…we get some curriculum through K-12….so we are invited to all of their field trips, our valley has a homeschool group and we are invited to those field trips, and then our co-op does field trips also. So there are always lots to […]
Being a mom there is a lot of nagging….lots. One of the things I do not like is…nagging! Oh man it wears on an already tired mama! So I have been eliminating the nag. I have tried pretty much every cutesy Pinterest chore chart there is. I have tried allowance. I have tried to get […]
Bribing probably isn’t the best word to use…since it typically means to persuade someone illegally. But I am a homeschool mom of 3…I am trying to persuade them to WANT to get good grades 
It isn’t bad…right?!? They are great students and we love to learn together. I love to teach them … and […]