Just Another Week Monday We started school off with independent work. I was getting a bit stressed out. It takes a long time to help my 4th and 5th grader with their homework. I wanted to start school with them but not at the expense of getting anything in with my 1st grader and preschooler. […]
Homeschool and a Clean House? There was a time when I had two toddlers at home that, besides laundry, my house was really clean. I remember going to a friend’s house who had three kids. I wanted to quickly sweep her floor, put all the dirty socks in the washer, and wipe down her messy […]
Some Apps on your phone or computer can cost money and take up unwanted space. Others are absolutely essential and a gigantic help to your way of life. Here is apps I do and don’t recommend Apps I Recommend ABC Mouse ABC Mouse has been a huge help for me with especially my preschool and […]
I decided to start giving you, my readers, a fairly unfiltered view into our homeschool life. I want to lay out what our life is like each day. I hope for you who are already homeschooling, this gives you peace knowing you’re not alone. Furthermore, I really hope for those who aren’t homeschooling, it helps […]
Homeschool Mom- Resources Worth Your Time There are so many homeschool Moms I look up to. There are some specific ones that have really helped make my life easier. I’m inspired by them for different days reasons. For some the inspiration comes from their blog, from unit studies they’ve created, from their YouTube channel, from […]
We have done dry curriculum where we memorize flash cards to learn countries and states of the world. I gave up on that for something so much more exciting. We play board games now to learn geography. In this post I will mention some of my favorites. Trekking The World Scrambled States of America Trekking […]
How to Homeschool Choose an Educational Method There are different homeschool methods such as Charlotte Mason, Classical, Montessori, Unit Studies, Unschooling, Waldorf, and Gameschooling. Most homeschool parents do a mixture of many of these. My family’s homeschool method is like a beautiful bouquet. It draws beauty from many different methods. Research Homeschool Curriculum and Pick […]
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Counting Money Struggles For one of my children counting money is a real struggle. We have bought her lots of resources over the years. Here are some of the things that she really enjoys and new things we purchased to help her. Keep in mind, in my normal fashion, I really like to make everything […]
Morning Menus This year I saw an idea to use menus for our circle time. I bought some menus on Amazon and during the summer made 10 months worth of different songs, pictures, and scriptures to enter into our menus. That way when we were in the middle of the school year I would just […]
Biblioplan I cannot say enough good things about this curriculum. I am absolutely loving it. It is perfect to adjust to all of my school age children that range from 6-13. I love that the text book I read to my children or they read on their own is in full color. I also love […]
Implementing the Child and Youth Program I was recently called into Young Women’s class as an advisor. Today we had a meeting where we talked about the Child and Youth program a little. I’m so excited because I was asked to oversee the new Child and Youth Program for the Young Women. This is something […]
4H Projects 2025 Despite me knowing next to nothing about 4H and cattle, our kids are involved in 4H. This year I enrolled them in many projects including horse and breeding heifers for all three of the older kids. This is my 3rd child first year of having a heifer. We’re excited for him that […]
Homeschooling While Potty Training One day after we got our foster babies, I washed my 3 year old and got ready to put clothes on him. I spontaneously decided that I was NEVER going to be ready to potty train and we’d start that day. You have to understand that doing things on a whim […]
Lullabell and Ranch Kids We have some amazing friends around us. My son and one of his best friends met in 3rd grade. I’ll just call his friend Horse kid. Horse kid is about the most cowboy kid I’ve ever seen. I love this kid. He lives and breaths doing everything right alongside his Dad […]
Homeschooling With Toddlers In my last post I mentioned that my husband and I welcomed to boys from foster care into our home. Up until this point, I have never tried to do homeschooling with more than one girl toddler aged child. When my baby girl was a toddler, I brought all my older kids […]
What’s Happening It has been so long since I’ve wrote on here. I had some technical difficulties at first and then some hard family issues came up and I had to quit doing all my extra things for a while. Thankfully, homeschooling gives us the flexibility to take life as it comes at us and […]
