Category: Homeschool

  • My Funny Valentine(s)

    My Funny Valentine(s)

    Center Sister, our resident Calendar Girl, counts down to each and every holiday. We always try to incorporate some education into the festivities. The girls dipped a near bushel of strawberries in chocolate for their 4-H bake sale, since I’m not a baker. Forgoing a babysitter, Handsome Husband treated the entire fam to a Valentine’s…

  • As For Me and My House, We Will Dress Up

    As For Me and My House, We Will Dress Up

    In our house we sport head-to-toe green on St. Patty’s Day. We make sure to always don red, pink, or ideally both simultaneously, on Valentine’s. I send the kiddos back to their closets to try again if they’re not proudly emblazoned in red, white, and blue come Independence Day. To Husband’s chagrin we rock costumes each…

  • M-I-A

    M-I-A

    Confession time… I’ve been M-I-A (<—never gets old) and all’s been quiet on the blogging front for two very specific reasons: #1) I’m reading and reviewing another incredible book. It’s GOOD. Neglecting-all-housework-and-leaving-the-kids-to-forage-their-own-meals Good. Can’t-put-it-down-yet-deliberately-pacing-myself Good. I actually lamented to Handsome Husband yesterday that homeschooling was seriously imposing upon my leisure reading. I can’t wait to share…

  • State of the Homeschool Address

    State of the Homeschool Address

    School-life is so much more peaceful now, since streamlining the kids’ extra-curricular activities… even homeschoolers fall prey to the frenetic “more is more” hustle, sometimes. We all just want the best for our kids, and mom-guilt is a real thing, y’all. Firstborn hopes to attend full-time traditional school for sixth grade next fall, and I’ve frankly…

  • We Were On a Break

    We Were On a Break

    We were all grateful to enjoy a wee break over the Christmas holiday before starting school afresh in the new year. We’re back to the homeschool grind today, hopeful for success with our modified schedule  for the new year.

  • Schoolhouse Rock

    Schoolhouse Rock

    In my mind, the greatest perks of home-education are the flexibility and freedom. I’m the boss of this here homeschool! And in the spirit of the new year, we are invoking those claims with a mid-school-year adjustment… Frankly, we’ve been so busy driving “to town” three days a week to activities that we lack the free, unscripted time…

  • Gingerbread Merriment, version 8.0

    Gingerbread Merriment, version 8.0

    I know, I know– you’re all,“Not another thing! We want a simple holiday– no more things!”  I get it. Our Christmas used to be crazy-busy, too. (…and then we moved a thousand miles away from extended family.) But, if your family is like mine, with the compatible combo of socially ravenous home-school kids, a window of time for a quick…

  • Sleigh Ride

    Sleigh Ride

    Just hear those sleigh bells ring-a-ling, ring ting ting-a-ling too, C’mon it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you. Today I fell in love with Montana all over again, on a 4-H field trip with my girls. So technically it wasn’t a sleigh ride, but a wagon ride– due to insufficient snow*. (*sentence…

  • Signs of Life

    Signs of Life

    Scores of deer move in from the back forty to lurk around our neighborhood in the darkness, each night. Operating covert tactical missions, they silently snoop from the shadows, brazenly peering into windows while we lie unconscious in our beds. It’s creepy, really… reminiscent of an M. Night Shyamalan film, evidence of their stalking plain in…