You know what would be awesome? Awesome would be a camera crew going into a variety of homes on an average Tuesday morning and filming what their homeschool actually looks like.We could see how their kitchens were set up, how they handled the toddlers at breakfast, how they got the [...]
If you’ve been following along with our current year’s homeschooling plans, you know that we’re homeschooling five children, plus we have two little ones. This gives us a 10th grader, 7th grader, 6th grader, 4th grader, and 1st grader. Several of you have written to me, wondering how we get [...]
Do you ever feel like your prayers go no higher than the ceiling? Like God is withholding His blessing from your life? Join Anne as she searches Isaiah 58 for answers to tough questions like these! >> Click to download “Open My Eyes” (40 minutes). >> Click to download handout [...]
A few weeks ago, I dropped our laptop. Crash. Right to the floor. And that was the end of it. (I guess you could say the hard drive “crashed” — oh, groan….) Well, I have to be honest. I’ve really been struggling to get my work done online ever since! [...]
Way back when my first child was only a couple years old, I just knew I was going to homeschool him. I was not only going to homeschool him, he was going to be the smartest little thing that ever walked the face of the earth. I went to my [...]
My friend Martha from church recently tried to convince me to start making my own laundry detergent. Now, I realize that you might make your own, because a lot of women online do — but I JUST DON’T HAVE TIME FOR ADDING MORE WORK TO MY DAYS! At least, that [...]
For days I’ve been staring at my planning notebook and coming up absolutely dry on ideas for what to write on my blog each week. I usually don’t have this problem. Maybe it’s because I’ve been doing so much intense writing on curriculum, behind the scenes where you can’t see [...]
With summertime upon us, we have scaled back our daily schoolwork to just basic math and reading. The kids are really glad that it’s finally warming up enough in Minnesota to play outside almost every day, and I’m glad they’re able to spend some of their energy in new ways. [...]
We’ve been talking about how to organize our school rooms, so today I thought I’d show you the real key to my homeschooling sanity organization — my planning notebook. Way back when, when I first started homeschooling our oldest son, I tried using planning software, such as Edu-Track and Homeschool [...]
I got a catalog in the mail this week from the Container Store. I love anything that helps me get better organized, but the picture above really jumped out at me. We’ve been organizing and decluttering anyway, in preparation for Passover. I tore this page from the catalog and hung [...]
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