CC Image courtesy of Robert S. Donovan on Flickr This article originally published July 25, 2014 and updated on February 5, 2019 Gaps in my children’s homeschool education don’t concern me. I hear homeschoolers express fear over the dreaded “gaps” in their child’s education all the time. It’s all over the internet, particularly rampant among newbie homeschoolers. But veteran homeschoolers are living in this fear as well. […]
CC image courtesy of Leslie on Flickr This article originally published November 13, 2015 and updated on February 4, 2019 Recently articles about this Stanford research keep popping up in my news feed. It says we’re sending our kids to school too early. And that is possibly why we have such a huge amount of attention deficit disorder diagnosed later. *NOTE: *I have edited this article to add […]
This topic just came up, again, on one of the Facebook groups that I am a member of. And to be perfectly honest, I struggle BIG TIME with this EVERY.SINGLE.DAY with both my kids (18 and 13). But especially my 13yr old son. I haven’t solved it yet, but I do know this… Getting into a battle of wills does […]
Full disclosure: Teaching Textbooks approached me and asked me to do this review and giveaway, in exchange for a level of their product for my son. But the opinions expressed here are entirely my own. My First Experience with Teaching Textbooks I have homeschooled my 2 kids (boy, 13 and girl, nearly 18) since the very beginning, and like every […]
“Stay human, you carry the future in your arms and in your bellies.”–Michael Franti This is an old transcript from back when I ran a chat website called Mommy Chats (a site that I no longer own), and hosted all sorts of topical chats, including weekly chats sponsored by Mothering Magazine. Mothering was all the rage in the natural parenting […]
This week, as will happen, life took some unexpected turns.
Today wrapped up the first week of my 5th Annual Great Summer Purge and Clean: The Kitchen Zone. Today I focused on cleaning/organizing the top of my dishwasher (it’s a portable, and a magnet for piles of crap), cleaning the kitchen table (which wasn’t actually too bad, for a change), and thoroughly steam cleaning the kitchen floor…which was pretty bad, […]
Moving on to the microwave and cupboards around… I forgot to take a before pic of the microwave, so I didn’t bother with an after pic. It’s just a microwave. But I did take pics of the cupboards. These are my dish cupboards and my pots/pans and kitchen appliance cupboards. Plus my utensils drawers and my lid drawer… and a […]
Ok, we are in the stove area today…this means the stove and the cupboards above and next to, including my junk drawer…Plus I tacked on the cupboards below the kitchen sink into this area as well. I even opened up my stove and cleaned all the grime that gathers under the burners from spillage. GROSS! Also replaced all the aluminum […]
Today I tackled my fridge and freezer and some cupboards in the nearby area. I KICKED BUTT!! Luckily we are quite short on food right now, so this job was a lot easier than it could have been. Here’s my before and after pics, side by side: You can’t really tell from the before pic, […]
FIRST ZONE: THE KITCHEN I feel like I’ve not done this in awhile…I waited quite awhile this summer before getting going on this (life happened)…and the past 2 years have not really happened gung ho. I’m DETERMINED to make this year’s GSPAC really COUNT! And I really want to blog the experience fully, for those that want to follow along… […]
As I prepare to start yet another Great Summer Purge and Clean, I am reminded of the Flylady and her “shiny sink” philosophy… …and I went in search of a good article to refer people to about this philosophy… But I didn’t find anything that really resonated with me. So, of course, I had to write my own… […]
Today’s the day I finally sort out this year’s “Great Summer Purge and Clean”. I have had so much I have been working on already this summer, I haven’t had time to think much of this yet!! But I’m NOT ditching it! I’ve been thinking of switching tracks with my son’s homeschool charter so we can start school in […]
So, if you’ve not heard yet…there’s this new thing called the GDPR… Here’s a quick video that explains it well, if you prefer audio/video learning: Even if you don’t own an online business or website, you’ve probably been made aware of the GDPR by the slew of emails that you received in May from all the places […]
I saw an ad in my Facebook feed today that intrigued me. An ad for a new video streaming service for science videos! Immediately got MY attention, especially with all the way cool experiments in the video! He’s called the Dancing Scientist, and here’s his YouTube channel. The service that he’s doing is called Generation Genius. After watching the ad […]
I love this book! I think I got it years ago…long before children…from the bargain section of Borders Books (I miss them!) when I was working there. It was so intriguing, I couldn’t resist! The idea of underwear throughout history!! It’s a cute little lift the flap sort of popup style picture book that is actually really quite informative! A […]
Do you know about this?? Our family has had a family subscription for a couple years now…and we LOVE IT!! For just $14.99, a month every member of our 4 member family gets access to every song in Apple Music… and that’s a LOT of music!! No more having to pay to for new albums or trying to find used […]
This is an awesome book! My daughter got this as a gift on her 16th birthday from a family member and we are in love with it! It is a collection of short stories about female scientists…most of whom we’ve never heard of! Each one has only one page about them, but the info is very interesting and we really […]
Dragonbox ROCKS!! I have enjoyed these apps for years! I swear I enjoy the apps as much, maybe more than, my kids! If you haven’t heard of Dragonbox yet…its a company that gamifies math. Specifically algebra. They now also have other math games, it looks like. I’ve only played their algebra apps. But judging by the quality and fun […]
I just found this in my blog drafts…I apparently had written this up really quick on Easter so I wouldn’t forget it…then forgot to post it, woops! Well, here it is…better late than never!! An Easter funny for your enjoyment: My 17yr old daughter is just as funny as her dad…just overheard: (Discussing dad needing to get up so the […]
