5 Important Things to Teach Your Son About Home Repairs

It is so important to teach your son about home repairs. Yes, girls can definitely benefit from this too! At our house, we just happen to only have boys, so I tend to focus on raising boys. This is a guest post that I think brings an awesome point: training up your sons on how to work with their hands. I want to make sure we use these tips at our house more too, and I hope you find this […]

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It’s Okay to Do Absolutely Nothing When Facing Big Changes

It's Okay to Do Absolutely Nothing When Facing Big Changes

***Ad Disclosure Statement: When you purchase through links on this website, we collect advertising fees.*** Do any of you ever feel so subconsciously overwhelmed that you just feel like doing nothing? This week I definitely did not do “absolutely nothing.” In fact, I picked up all the boys’ school-issued materials for virtual school, set up and then re-set up work areas, and figured out how to work these new Chromebooks. That was a lot of things that I DID accomplish. […]

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46 Photos and Facts of Valley Forge National Historic Park

A few months ago, just out of curiosity, I googled the distance from my new house to Valley Forge. I probably didn’t even know Valley Forge was in Pennsylvania, but I knew it was the site of the Revolutionary Army’s famous winter encampment of 1777-78. Much to my delight, I discovered that I live only an HOUR away! One hour! My first thought was, “Awesome!” My second thought was, “Oh no, just how cold is this winter going to be?” […]

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The Job I Fell in Love with this Year

Yesterday was my volunteer day. That’s the one day per week where I basically go into work like most American adults. Ha! I put on my grown-up clothes–things like trousers instead of yoga pants–and I work for someone besides my family.

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Miserable Teaching with 20 boys & the Toothless Wonder

20 boys and the toothless wonder. story of my first week of teaching

***This post is part of the Real Army Wives series, which runs every Monday on storiesofourboys.com. For last week’s chapter click here.*** Sunday, Aug. 17, 2003 Oh, Alan, I missed you the MOST today! We had “Back to School” night, where we meet the parents. Everything was fine except instead of 22, I now have 25, and also this grandparent with two children in my class stayed after and basically threatened me. Yeah. This ignorant, toothless wonder, with a strong […]

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It was not a failure, though I thought it was at the time.

Failure stings when it’s something that means the world to you. It stings like getting stung by a HIVE OF BEES or 50 fire ants.

I set out to home school those two years with two objectives:

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REAL life starts again tomorrow. Oh, yes, the kids are going back to school!

We just finished the longest Christmas vacation ever. 3 weeks!!! Full weeks!! It was a blast.  It was genuinely fun because we didn’t spend the whole 3 weeks in any one place. We went south, then we went north, then we went home, then we went back south, then back home. We had a good time with it! And we were terrible. Truly terrible. We let the kids stay up as late as 10 some nights. I know. The shame! […]

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Exciting Weekly Brain Pop Jr. Lessons for Classical Conversations Cycle 1

brain pop junior lessons

(Please note that I do collect advertising fees when you purchase through links on my page to Money Saving Mom or Amazon. However, I am not affiliated with Brain Pop. How I wish I were!) I’ve mentioned before that Brain Pop Jr. is a hit at our house. As part of my planning for next year, Cycle 1 of Classical Conversations, I combed through each week and lined up the material with the corresponding videos. I am not a Brain […]

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13 Wonderful Things That Are Happening at Our Homeschool

I put this list together throughout this past week. Would you believe we only have 5 WEEKS of home schooling left for this year!!?  Have you ever had a new job that just took all you had and then some? Well, that was my first year of teaching, and I cannot wait for summer!!! A lot of good things are happening right now, though. I need to keep that in mind when I’m feeling beat down! I made a little […]

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Montessori at Home: Brainy Kit Review

A little while back, I got an email from Viktoria Altman, President of Brainy Kit. She asked if I’d be interested in receiving a complimentary kit of Montessori materials and lesson plans. YES! Would I ever!!  I’ve only had two blogger offers that I was this excited about: Brainy Kit and Jamberry Nails. (Look for a Jamberry post soon.) Now I know you’re wondering what in the world I’m talking about. Well, Montessori is a hands on method of preschool […]

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