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Our Homeschool Mid-Year Review – What Is (And Isn’t) Working
We officially started homeschooling about mid-August so here we are now, about four months into grade 1 and three-year-old preschool. My main reason for starting this blog in the summer was to document out journey, I’m one of those people that likes to write out what I’m going through (like with our adoption). I also…
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2016 Reader Survey – Enter to Win One of Our Favorite Picture Books!
As 2016 starts to wind down I wanted to take the opportunity to hear from you! I’ve created a very short reader survey (it’s nine questions and most of them are multiple choice) that I would love for you to fill out. To show my appreciation for you taking a minute out of your day…
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Ten Christmas Books that Keep Christ at the Center
I shared a list of Christmas books a few weeks ago, they are sweet Christmas books, but I also wanted to share a list of our favorite Christmas books that keep Christ at the center. Because, truly, without Christ, there would be no Christmas. Right now we get most of our Christmas books from the…
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Elementary Medieval Times Book List
At the beginning of the year I decided we would try to do a brief overview of the history of the world this year. We started out with ancient history (focusing mainly on Ancient Rome) and now we are in the middle of our study on the medieval times. We’ve been enjoying reading about knights…
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Easy & Enjoyable Poetry Tea Time in Our Homeschool
Poetry Tea Time is something we’ve been doing for a few months now in our homeschool and I’ve had a few people ask about it. I first came across the idea of Poetry Tea Time on Instagram and through my rabbit trail found out that the idea started with Julie from Brave Writer. Of course…
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Seven Christmas Books to Read With The Family
We set up our Christmas tree earlier this week and afterwards we had hot chocolate and sugar cookies fresh out of the oven and sat on the couch for our first Christmas book of the season. Evenings aren’t always so picturesque around here but it’s pretty sweet when they are. 🙂 We’ve got a number…