SEVEN YEARS: A BAKING PARTY
With every birthday I can’t help pushing my eyebrows together in confusion as to how my kids got that big. Last Thursday was no different with my baby girl. She’s…
NATURAL EGG DYE
Wednesday we did an awesomely fun art/holiday/science project…natural egg dyes. I have wanted to do this forever. The beautiful natural shades looking ever so elegant on my Pinterest boards compared…
VIKINGS UNIT STUDY
This school year has been interrupted time and time again with traveling and moving and lots of unknowns. It looks like we’ll be studying the Middle Ages again next year,…
EVOLVED HOMESCHOOLING: Don’t Stay the Same
People ask me all the time how long we will homeschool. Will we homeschool all the way through? Will we attempt to homeschool through high school? My answer is…
5 WAYS TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF, MAMA
I’ve noticed something around here, and you’ve probably noticed it too. When the going gets tough in our homes, or maybe even when things are just going, we’re the last…
WHY I’M EXCITED ABOUT MARCH
I have a feeling about March. March is bringing all the good things. Shamrocks, green stuff, and a good dose of luck. I mean, I am Irish, so it makes…
CATCHING UP
I’m trying to wrap my brain around what happened to this week. After yet another weekend of house hunting (and with that a whole heap of over thinking, over stressing,…
VALENTINE ART INSPIRATION
We don’t need much of an excuse around here to create art…winter? We’ll make some snowmen collages. Christmas? We’ll craft some handmade gifts. Holiday on the horizon? Every reason we…
MY PERSONAL FAVORITES FROM 2014
I love a long look back at the previous year. I almost always cry. Memories, both good and bad always make me cry. Sometimes it feels like not so much…
MY MOST FUN PINTEREST BOARDS
I’ve been on Pinterest a lot lately pinning all the most fun things I can find on the interwebs. Even without a house right now, I’m still doing plenty of…
TAKING STOCK: JANUARY ’15 EDITION
I pretty much love these lists. Or any list for that matter. It’s good to take stock of things every once in a while. Here goes: Making : plans for…
SCRAPPING THE LESSON PLANS
If you’ve been here longer than five minutes, you know I’m a planner, right? An organizer of sorts. Planning a new school year has become such an anticipated occasion each summer. I…
BOOKS OF 2014 + A NEW BOOK LIST FOR 2015
2014 was a pretty good “fun” reading year for me. I make a quick list of all the books I can remember reading…I feel like I forgot a few. I…
READER FAVORITES FROM 2014
I love you guys. I just really do. You’ve stuck with me this year when the sticking wasn’t very good. You’ve listened to me hash out things and organize things…
THOUGHTS ON 2015
I sat with coffee and a blank planner yesterday…waiting for the inspiration to hit me. Waiting for the motivation of writing down goals to just start flowing through my pen…
FINGERS CROSSED
So much of my tradition-loving, memory-making, homebody-ness has had to adapt this holiday. We are making memories, but they’re just different. We’re all kind of floating, figuring out things as…
WINTER ART IDEAS
There’s so many fun art projects to do for Christmas that sometimes after all the hoopla, we feel a little uninspired…like, what do we do now?? With this move, my…
DECEMBER FAVORITES
December rings true every time; the sights, the smells, the feelings. It’s been hard for me to get into the spirit, but I’m riding on the kids’ merriment and their…
End of content
End of content