I have always been an avid reader, from sneaking books into the bathroom to read as a pre-teen and early teenager to putting off grown up responsibilities as an adults (*cough* doing the dishes *cough*). My to-read list is incredibly long but thankfully I have always believed that there are way too many good books…
Since we’ve gotten back into our groove of homeschooling without a curriculum again I’ve come to realize how many free resources we use in our day. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love buying materials for our homeschool (can someone say all. the. books.??), but because we like to study a wide variety of subjects…
Like I mentioned in the post where I shared that we were officially quitting the Charlotte Mason method, we’ve started a little thing we call Brain Stain. Brain Stain in our take on the idea of Morning Time though it is not always in the morning so for the reason I didn’t like the name, plus…
Winter is definitely the time of year when we play more family board games and add new ones to our arsenal. We’ve added a few new ones to our collection already this winter and the kids are getting a few more for Christmas in a few weeks so I wanted to write a new game…
If you have been following around here for a little while you may know that we (well, I) decided to give the Charlotte Mason method a try for this school year. I love the Charlotte Mason method, I love all the photos I see and really agree with most of the method. But I am…
In a homeschool book I read once the author asked her Facebook friends what practical life experiences people felt like they learned from traditional school. Do you know what the majority of the responses were? Typing! ???? That kind of makes me laugh out loud cause, they know you don’t have to go to school…