It’s Story Time again and this month’s story is The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown. Crafts Handprint Peeking Bunny Craft at Fun Handprint Art Bunny Craft Using a Wine Cork for a Stamp at Sassy Dealz Sailboat Craft at Frogs, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails Bunny Puppet at Lovely Commotion Origami Flapping BirdContinue Reading
Tips for Laying Your Homeschool Foundation
Whether you’re embarking on the homeschool journey for the first time, or have been homeschooling for a number of years, I believe it’s essential to lay some foundations that will help to keep you on track throughout your homeschooling. This might include evaluating why exactly you want to homeschool, what your core values are, memorizingContinue Reading
Managers of Their Chores Review
It’s been just about a year now since we started systematically assigning chores to our children. Before that we pretty much just told the kids to do a chore when we saw that it needed to be done. If the garbage was full, we’d ask Luke to take it out. If the table needed toContinue Reading
Natural Homemade Household Products – Part 1
This is a post from Jennifer Leibert of The Adventures with the Leiberts I am sure most large families, or any size family for that mater, want to save money while helping keep our homes and families clean, healthy and safe. When you go to the supermarket and look down the cleaning aisle, you becomeContinue Reading
Top Ten Tips For Keeping Your Sanity!
This is a post from Rachael DeBruin of Diamonds in the Rough ~Maybe it’s just me here talking, but I’ve never found life super-duper easy, especially when you’re involving a LOT of children~ Fun… Yes! Busy… Of course…. Worth It? Absolutely! Each & every one of our children is a treasure. A blessing AND we’reContinue Reading
Spinach & Strawberry Salad with Homemade Dressing
This is a post from Jenn Porsche of Treasuring Life’s Blessings I love this time of year for many reasons – warm temps, walks with the family and the longer days of sunshine! I could list a whole host of reasons I love this time of year but I’d have to say one of my topContinue Reading
To the First Time Homeschooling Mom
Did you know that there is an amazing community of homeschoolers over on the Hip Homeschool Moms Facebook group? Did you even know that Hip Homeschool Moms had a Facebook group? The community has over 4000 members that are so full of encouragement and support for one another. They come from all walks of life,Continue Reading
When You Say “YES” to Babies & God Says “Not Now”
I was 31 when my husband and I embraced the conviction that we would be open to as many children as the Lord saw fit with which to bless us. The comments started almost immediately. “Are you sure you know what you’re doing?” “You have at least a decade of fertility in front of you!” “WhatContinue Reading
S is for Sign Language – The ABCs of Homeschooling {guest post – Selena}
I’ve been using American Sign Language (ASL) since I was a kid. I became acquainted with deaf and hard-of-hearing people for the first time when I was about 8 and I fell in love with sign language almost instantly. Naturally, we’ve been teaching it to our children as well. You might be thinking: “WhyContinue Reading
2014-2015 Homeschool Curriculum Choices
This post includes affiliate links. Thanks for your support of this site! Please see my disclosure for more information. A couple days ago I shared with you all a book list I put together for my 6th grader for the upcoming school year. Well, now I’m ready to share with you the rest of theContinue Reading
