Guest Post :: Journal Joy

I have really good intentions when it comes to encouraging my children to journal, unfortunately it often gets pushed to the side.  I even have a Pinterest board about journaling, but it still doesn’t happen.  When Rebecca offered to write a guest post about journaling, I was thrilled.  I look forward to trying some of […]

Weekly Photo Collage :: 12/7/2012 Poems & Latin

Recently the girls have been obsessed with watching High School Musical on Netflix.  I have gotten lots of hand me downs from my sister’s girls and had remembered seeing High School Musical pajamas somewhere in the piles.  When I came across the night shirt and gave them to Leah, she acted like she won a […]

Weekly Photo Collage :: 10/19/2012

Our Week:Another busy week in the books.  In addition to our regular routine of swimming, soccer, Tae Kwon Do, and speech therapy, we had the oh so enjoyable dental cleanings and a trip to the park.  We have had a couple of warm days again and we decided to take advantage of it and get […]

All About Reading :: A Review

*contains affiliate links, read my disclosure pageI really love finding a program that just fits with our family, almost as if it was created specifically for me and my children!  It doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does I like to share.  Right now All About Reading fits in that category for us. […]

Weekly Photo Collage :: 9/21/2012

It might take a minute to see what’s in the sky, but I took this on our way to soccer games last Saturday.  It was right before the Michigan football game and that’s an “M” {upside down!} in the sky.   On Sunday we were invited to a birthday party at a roller rink!  Jonah […]

Weekly Photo Collage :: 9/14/2012

It’s been a busy week, so I’m glad Friday has arrived.  We are enjoying these last days of really nice summer weather, and what a summer of great weather we have had.  We couldn’t let the week go by without reading our books about September 11th.  We also watched this video about operation Boat Lift […]

Homeschool Groove & Photo Collage ~ 8/24/2012

Our garden has seen better days.  It has been so dry in the midwest this summer, we sort of gave up.  The boys planted sunflowers and those have thrived, and my husband planted kale and that has done great too.   The rest of it, not so much. We made it through our first official […]