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 […]
Notgrass History has been such a delight for us this year. The previous two years I have homeschooled, we have done The Good and the Beautiful history. It was ok. We got through it. We enjoyed the read alouds and the audio story that went with it. We didn’t enjoy the long, uncolorful lessons with […]
Our family is anxiously awaiting the time for me to put away our anatomy and physiology unit study and begin our survival unit study. Here are some of the resources we will be or would like to use. The Waldock Way Survival Unit Study I have this resources all printed. My wilderness child looked at […]
We are blessed enough to have played quite a few games in our homeschool. However, I definitely have an infinitely long amazon list of games I’m hoping to purchase some day and play with my kids. I hope to tell you some of the games we have played and what I think about them in […]
There are so many good games out there for families looking to spend time playing and learning in the process. This is a special section of my blog that will give honest opinions about educational games and other games we have played. Furthermore, in this part of my blog I will share different games I […]
Why am I an advocate for year-round homeschooling? Do you enjoy your kids not forgetting everything you teach them, do you want to take advantage of summer or spring days without worrying about school, do you want your kids to get more sleep, and do you want to not feel bad about bagging days when […]
Starting My Own Program My family lives 45 minutes out of town. That is a super long way to go one extra time a week for story time. I also don’t like having to drive that far and then expect my kids to sit still while a book is read to them. Therefore, instead of […]
The Good and the Beautiful Spelling Problem Our main curriculum is The Good and the Beautiful. I love it for just about everything. However, I don’t feel like the spelling is quite where it should be. For some of the spelling words each week or month or so the designers of the curriculum focus mostly […]
My first year was a rough first year of homeschooling. I made some bad life choices and decided to start college for myself the second semester of our first year. To say it was hard was an understatement. As I prayed, I felt guided to take a different path and stop college. Yet, all of […]
Second Year Homeschool Schedule As a first year homeschooler my husband and I were talking to our vetrinarian who informed us that he and his wife homeschooled their kids. I was telling him about the schedule I had planned for our kids. I didn’t want them to sleep all day and develop bad habits. I […]
Dinner Time One of the hardest challenges for me with being a wife and mom in general is getting dinner done on time. I’ve looked at other women’s meal plans at times and it is extremely depressing. Somehow they manage to make a homemade meal for every single meal every day and still do a […]
Our New Homeschool Space! Our first year of homeschooling we did around the living room table. My house was a wreck unless people were coming over. My husband was slowly getting tired of my homeschool things consuming our house. I had a room in mind since we moved into this house. However, my husband really […]
