Designing a home-centered life: learning, exploring, and creating with our five littles
We kept right on homeschooling during our recent move. It was a super close move - just a few miles away in the same town, but as it turns out, that doesn't really affect the packing, paper processing, cleaning, purging part of a move. I think all told we missed one week's worth of work, which we'll just make up at the end of the year. … [Read more...]
Alright, folks, here's the skinny. I struggle with needing things to be super neat and tidy. I mean s t r u g g l e. Can you hear me? Do you feel me? Something about a clean environment makes my mind feel clear and my soul feel peaceful. As you may remember, we moved just a few short months back. Moving is anything but neat and tidy. Unpacking and … [Read more...]
Do you find yourself reading aloud a portion of a great story and then pausing to ask your children, "What do you think?" or "Was that right or wrong to do?" I certainly have been known to do so! Especially when I find myself reading an older book from a time when things were perhaps spoken about or handled differently than we would today. … [Read more...]
I love my CC community. Lots of great families with moms I adore and kids who are great. I LOVE doing life with these families. I can honestly tell you they're like family, a different expression of the body of Christ to us. We don't just share interests, we share values. We're not just homeschooling, we're training. We're not just talking, we're … [Read more...]
Y'all have been busily traveling the 50 states with the Flat Littles and I'm so grateful! Please allow me to catch up with the posts, but do keep the pictures and travels coming. I love sharing them as we all learn about the 50 states. For the next in the series, here's a picture of the Flat Littles who tagged along with the Hogans to lots … [Read more...]
I've been totally missing in action here lately, so I wanted to give y'all a quick update. We moved! It came about quickly from listing to sale, to packing to moving…but naturally not without complications. Praise the Lord, as of last night, we're in our new place. We have some renovations planned, which will leave us in mostly packed up mode for a … [Read more...]
If I could, I would say to my littles, "If you get nothing else, get this." I'm not sure I'm the teacher I should be with this, but I do want to be. Reading this book brought me closer than before and reading Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan with my littles has reminded me. Maybe today you need to be reminded of the cleansing pleasure of … [Read more...]
My husband is a Philly area native and at a young age visited Independence Hall in Philadelphia. We've since taken our littles twice. But, at home we still use something he purchased on a trip there when he was a little boy. It's a replica of the Declaration of Independence. We read it this week, made observations about the … [Read more...]
Guess what? Life has gotten very busy - we're moving! I'm so glad I made a plan for simplicity for homeschooling this year. This week we've been reviewing our history sentence by reading one of the books from our book list, the Boston Tea Party by Pamela Duncan Edwards. It's a cute book with good drawings that traces the chain of events … [Read more...]
Recently during my 7 year olds annual check-up at the pediatrician's, the nurse was asking him to answer a list of prescribed questions prior to the doctor coming in. It went something like this -- Nurse: "What's the name of your school?" My son: Blank stare. Somewhat impatiently, the nurse repeats: "The name? of your school?" I was giving … [Read more...]