This week I started reading 31 Days to Clean and participating in the HOMEmaker’s Challenge working through it. I am really enjoying this book. If there was any doubt before, this book has confirmed something to me. I am more of a Martha than a Mary. At least my natural inclination is more that way. …
Books. I love them. Some might say too much. But among homeschoolers, I’m pretty normal. Actually our home library is a bit smaller than many others I’ve heard about. I love to read. I want my kids to love to read, and I don’t want a lack of good books available to be used as …
In Evaluating Your Homeschool Part 1, I explained several things that I had decided to do to evaluate our homeschool. We have completed our yearly achievement tests, and I am in the process of getting the records up-to-date and assessing our progress in this year’s curricula. In Part 2, I shared the questions I was …
Who was John Knox? He was a leader (if not THE leader) of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland. That is about the extent of what I knew about him. I also had a sort of vague idea that most of the modern history books aren’t too kind to him. That was before I read the …
We had a nice day yesterday. After worship at church in the morning, we went to my in-laws home for a nice meal and an Easter egg hunt. My husband’s oldest sister and family were there too. Here are a couple of sort of decent pictures of us. It’s a rare picture with middle son …
This week my husband had 3 days off. So yesterday we decided to take a little day trip. Our destination… Appomattox Courthouse Hopefully you know that Appomattox Courthouse is the site of the end of the Civil War. But you might not know that the surrender wasn’t signed at the courthouse in Appomattox. It was …
I admit it. I take after my grandmother. I have a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde complex. I hate clutter, but I hate to throw useful things away. Even if I know I won’t need them. Take broken crayons, for example. I’m not so mean that I make my kids use the crayons down …
(Cincinnati, OH) With unemployment rates high, the teen population is finding it harder and harder to find work. Adults are competing for the same minimum wage jobs. But there’s an alternative—starting a micro business. What is a micro business? It is a very small, one-person business that you can start easily and quickly with what …
I have a confession to make. I’m a math geek. Math was always my favorite subject. I was excited for my son to get to Algebra so I could help him with it. My favorites are word problems. Yes, I love those problems about paddling canoes upstream, 2 trains leaving Boston, or 2 people painting …
I’m so glad I have a few of you interested in how I’m evaluating our homeschool! Here are the questions I’m going to give my children: 1. What is your favorite thing about homeschooling? 2. What is your least favorite thing about your homeschooling experience? 3. What is your favorite subject? Why? 4. What is …
