A Celebration of Mundanity

Just in time for our unit on insects, the "Fireflies" unit in Moving Beyond the Page, we have our first reared Monarch butterflies to release this year. This isn't the first time we've done this, she…

Wow, almost ten months ago I posted the conclusions I came to about what direction I wanted to go with home schooling.  The Secular, literature based unit studies with hands on projects…

This week, we're wondering how our kids think things work.  Maybe giving us a glimpse into how their minds work and how they figure something out.  I needed to expand on the question adding, "what…

This week the theme is about kids.  Jana was fairly quick with her answers. What is a kid? a little boy  -we asked her, "are you a little boy?"  No.  "are you a kid?"  Yes.  She didn't…

My daughter loves to paint.  This is an understatement.  I have hundreds of photos of her using different mediums: finger paints, water colors, tempura, poster paints.   From different…

This week, the theme is questions about Dad, with an extra bonus question.  Jana was genuinely upset that there weren't anymore questions.  She likes these small interviews.  But, since we want…

  Inspired by the going back to school interview, my friend Heather over at Please Sleep In and I have decided to create a weekly questionnaire linkup for our kids and for anyone who is…

Yeah, yeah, we're not heading back in the traditional sense, but I saw a friend post one and thought it would be cute to see Jana's responses. And actually, this has inspired an idea for a weekly…

This is a loaded question and it invariably comes up in any conversation with fellow homeschoolers about homeschooling, "so, which curriculum are you using or going to use?" When I say there are a…

I've been dusting off the cobwebs out of the corners on this site. I've been inspired as of late to revive the blogging habit. The problem is, other social media just makes what I've done here too…