Are you ready to get your STEM learning on this school year? Well… I have you covered!!! If you are reading from an email, you’ll probably want to click the title of this post so you can see the images. Sorry, but the emailed version of my posts doesn’t show Amazon book covers or Instagram […]
Creation Sunday Series: Space and Time
My boys are really interested in outer space. My youngest has a fascination (and addiction) to the app “Star Chart”. Each one of my boys has gone through a solar system phase – some longer than others – in their lives. We have what seems like three or four whole shelves in our homeschool library […]
Perfecting Preschool: Rules
I started the my Perfecting Preschool series back in 2013. I had a list of posts I wanted to tackle based on what we were doing for the year with my then preschool boys. The Rules post is where it all went awry. I had planned to make my own wall-hanging set of family rules […]
Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons
I remember what it was liking starting out with homeschooling back in 2001. I had that crazy eyed look of a mom frantic to find out all the things… and to figure out a way to WIN at homeschooling. Homeschooling, like life, is a long journey, though. It is not a sprint, it’s a marathon. […]
Back in Austin
Waving Hi from under the piles of papers on my desk. It’s a good thing I am not a vlogger. You would be laughing at my stacks of tax documents and folders right now… or maybe commiserating, since it’s tax season and most of us are chomping at the bit for a refund. I’ll be […]
31 Things for October…
I say Hello, you say Goodbye! Yes, October is almost over… and I’m just getting around to letting you know I’m alive. But hey – here I am! Better late than never! My list-making obsession is a beast. I would make a list on my arm if I ran out of paper. So to quell […]
Hope for the Night Owl: Why sleeping in is better for learning.
Have you always kicked yourself because you weren’t a morning person? Have you secretly hated your alarm clock for most of your life? Do you look forward to sleeping in on weekends and feel better on Saturday and Sunday than you do all week long? Well, if this study is right, you may be feeling […]
