Category Archives: Homeschool

Microwave Minute Hot Cocoa (With Dairy-Free Version!)

Microwave Minute Hot Cocoa

As part of our Five in a Row homeschool studies this year, we spent a week learning about France as we ‘rowed’ the book Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans.* (I feel so grown up, talking about ‘homeschool studies‘… Continue reading

Friday Flashback: A Story About Ping

Rowing A Story About Ping

Note: I’m not one, but two weeks behind in posting our Friday Flashbacks! Oh well. I’m not sure if I’ll double post one day or “catch up” (ha, right!) but this Friday actually happened 2 weeks ago. Yes, I’m perfectly aware of my posting abilities. Or lack thereof.

This week in school… Continue reading

Friday Flashback: Storm in the Night

Storm in the Night


This is our first official “Friday Flashback” post. Technically, this post is describing what we did last week, because I’m ADHD and I have to stay behind in order to keep up. That makes sense, right? :)

This week, we used our… Continue reading

This is Not a Homeschool Blog.

I feel the need to clarify why I’m posting two posts today. This is something I rarely do. In fact, lately I’m lucky to get out the Monday-Friday posts I aim for posting! The short reason is this: this is not a homeschool blog.

Some of you come here for LDS/homeschool goodness, and that’s great. A lot of you come here for the slacker mom realism I… Continue reading

2012-2013 Curriculum: Kindergarten Lite

Homeschool Curriculum

I’ve been wanting to post about our 2012-13 curriculum choices for Kindergarten for ages now. That was difficult though because I hadn’t decided on curriculum, despite obsessively thinking about it every day for months on end. I’m going to share what I eventually came up with and am now teaching! This will also be the beginning of our… Continue reading