ASHEVILLE BUCKET LIST
I am convinced that moving is not just a stressful thing, which it is–but it is one of the most emotional events in our lifetime. Is that too grand a…
FAMILY TRADTIONS: THE JESSE TREE
November is normally the cue for Christmas music and lights and trees and all the other details that encompass Christmas. I’m not normally one to jump on that wagon yet…I’m…
THE BOUQS: MY LITTLE CORNER OF PEACE
Pretty much everything here is packed up, we’re off on Friday…so yes, it’s pretty much chaos ’round here. So when The Bouqs contacted me a couple weeks ago about reviewing…
HOMESCHOOLING DURING A MOVE
A month ago, I pictured myself happily packing boxes while my three big kids sat nearby working on their math lessons while the baby ate snacks and watched Baby Einstein–the…
ONWARD AND UPWARD: MOVING TO MINNESOTA
Doing the Home + School: Simplified series has definitely made this easier to keep this quiet here on the blog, but it’s gotten harder and harder and the time has…
THE ROARING 20s: MY NEW FAVORITE PHOTOS
Halloween has never been the joking matter at our house. My kids are very serious about what they dress up like, they would much prefer pieced-together, Goodwill costumes opposed to…
SIMPLIFYING THOUGHTS
Writing has always been an incredible way to decompress, to vent, to express myself and to learn more about myself and this month has been no different. We have talked…
WILL THERE EVER BE BALANCE?
It feels like we’ve had such a productive month over here, right? We’ve covered so much ground in our personal lives, our homes, and our schools about simplifying and gaining…
DOING TOO MUCH FOR OUR KIDS?
Since the beginning of this month we’ve been trying to simplify. We have demand after demand that cannot be edited out, like feeding our kids or doing math. But we…
CLEAR THE CLUTTER
Cluttered house, cluttered mind. That’s really so true, isn’t it? You could live in a house that really isn’t clean but it is uncluttered, so it appears cleaner than it…
STEPPING AWAY FROM THE LESSON PLANNER
Today applies to everyone, even mamas without a lesson planner. Because if you don’t have a lesson planner, you probably have a regular planner and if you do have both,…
CREATING CALM
Believe it or not, we homemakers really do make our homes feel like a home. It took me a while to figure this out, be we do. Our special super…
SIMPLE HOLIDAYS: CREATING A HOLIDAY PLANNER
I’m almost afraid to say this out loud, but yes, the holiday season is upon us. How did that happen so fast?? With Halloween in a week, Thanksgiving will be…
SIMPLE HOME DECOR
This is the time of year we’re pulling out our fall décor totes and our Christmas totes and sprucing our homes up all pretty for the holidays and the changes…
SIMPLE NATURE STUDY
I love nature study. I’ve always said here the change of seasons is so inspiring to me and there’s nothing better than to be out in it, studying it quietly…
COPING WITH STRESS
As much as we simplify our lives, sometimes there’s nothing we can do to avoid seasons of stress. Deadlines, colds, poison ivy, planning, holidays, and so much more has racked…
FITTING IN EXTRA CURRICULAR
Yesterday we talked about fitting in reading aloud together. There’s a whole lot of extra curricular things too that come with teaching your kids besides just math and science, and usually those are…
FITTING IN READ ALOUDS
this post contains affiliate links…thanks for supporting this blog! One of our favorite parts of our homeschool day is reading together. I’m trying to figure out if the kids are really…
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