Home Management As in any normal homeschooling family, your situation, setting, and needs will be unique. Prioritizing will be a constant work in progress. Maintaining your house will be a challenge unless you hire cleaning services, or adopt a minimalist lifestyle (I’m personally aiming in putting into practice the latter one). It isContinue Reading
Large Family Homeschool Curriculum Choices 2016-2017
We are starting our new school year a little later than usual this year. We usually start a new year just after Labor Day, but this year we will wait until the end of September (maybe even the beginning of October) because we are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new family member. WeContinue Reading
5 Summer Activities for When Your Children Are Bored
Even as year round homeschoolers there are times when my children are bored. This makes complete sense when you consider what our summer homeschooling looks like, because there are still many hours in the day when children are awake. I do believe it is important for our children to be bored sometimes because in thoseContinue Reading
Coconut Pineapple Chicken
I can’t even begin to tell you how much I love anything coconut. I grew up in the Philippines. We used coconut on a wide variety of dishes and desserts. I saw my mom and aunts use coconut oil not just in cooking. They used it for hair, skin and healing purposes. Here in ourContinue Reading
Three Homeschool Priorities
It’s almost time for the new school year to start! Are you ready? I learned over 31 years of homeschooling that the most important way to be ready for the new school year was knowing what my homeschool priorities were, and planning our daily schedule accordingly. If you don’t KNOW your true priorities, you willContinue Reading
A Quick Guide to Homeschool Methods
There is no right or wrong way to homeschool your children. Some families like to do ‘school at home’ which very much replicates a classroom environment, while some are at the other end of the spectrum and ‘unschool’ their children. And then of course there is so much in between. If you are new toContinue Reading
Tips for Surviving the Third Trimester
The third trimester – also know as the longest three months of a woman’s life. While you are now in the home stretch, some days it seems like eons until your due date. I’m currently in the third trimester with my 8th baby. It seems like whenever I get to this stage of pregnancy IContinue Reading
Help Your Child Understand Scripture
For Christian moms, I believe that one of the most important things we can do for our children is to train them in the Bible. There are many verses where God tells us to do just that. We are tasked with teaching God’s word to our children. One way to help do this is byContinue Reading
Keeping Kids Busy So You Can Make Dinner In Peace
I don’t know about you, but trying to keep my younger kids entertained while I’m preparing dinner can be such a challenge. As a mom of eight, I have numerous hours of experience with this, but it wasn’t until more recently that I got a bit smarter about this whole thing. Can you relate toContinue Reading
Studying the Masters: Vincent van Gogh
As homeschoolers, we decided early on that we were going to homeschool through each summer. We were pretty proud of ourselves as we powered through a couple of summers. Our children were doing well, and we were happy with the results that we were getting. But here’s the thing – I’m just going to admitContinue Reading
