Do you have so many questions about curriculum? Like, ‘What curriculum is a good fit for your family?’ With SO MANY options it can be completely overwhelming finding the right fit. Where do you even start? Listen and Serena and I talk...
Read moreHomeschooling is not an easy thing, and some of us homeschool parents wants it to be perfect that we put too much pressure on us and our kids. So here is another homeschooling episode where we talk with Nicki Truesdell about her homeschool...
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Homeschool mays sound daunting… more so the thought of picking a curriculum. Then what about homeschooling co-op, ever heard about it? When you are new to homeschool you may feel like you are not doing enough. But the thing is almost every...
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Want to know how to be a homeschool dad? Then tune in and listen as Rob James and I chatted about what homeschooling looks like as a dad. A lot of dads are now staying home or looking into staying at home more, and this poses a lot of questions...
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Have been wondering what to do with the kids this summer? How to make it work with everyone at home? Then tune in and listen as we discuss the ins and outs of a summer homeschool. Get tips on what to do when you want to homeschool, what to look...
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The beginning of homesteading Years ago, we moved to a city in North Carolina called Asheville. If you’ve never been, it’s a city with a reputation of being populated mostly by hippies. People are definitely more in tune with natural...
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We’ve been working hard on the schoolhouse project since March and a lot of progress was made since the last blog post. It’s really cool to see the space be transformed and get closer to what we want it to become. We are aiming to have all the...
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Free-range Crafting is a time without cause Sometimes we do crafts and there’s an expected outcome. That is what happens with free-range crafting. We make masks, paint pots, put googly eyes on paper plates, and smile with our kids as these...
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Birthdays Can Be Treacherous We’re mid-birthday-month right now. Naomi and I have birthdays at the beginning of October, which involved nearly a week’s worth of festivities this year, and Leviah’s is at the end of the month...
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I’ll likely never feel like we have homeschooling all figured out. People sometimes ask me for advice, or what we do, or how we make it work…well, I’m always intimidated by these questions. Someday, when everyone has grown...
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As an update I wanted to share some images from our Math by Hand experiences. We have LOVED using these math resources. It is a great fit for our family. making pipe cleaner numbers–Leviah (age 4) following along in the background...
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So this is a Circular Perpetual Calendar. It was a project that the girls made. And might I say, it is super fun! The girls haven’t quite finished it yet ’cause admittedly it was too difficult for Leviah (4-year-old). Though she...
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