For Today... Wednesday October 28, 2015 54 degrees, sunny, breezy, cool Outside my window... merry little breezes dancing with orange and yellow leaves hungry birds in the bird feeder chickens treasure hunting children nature journaling …

Institute for Excellence in Writing  (IEW) has wonderful resources for use in your home or private school. We received a set that includes:  Timeline of Classics ,  Teaching with Games Set , and  A Word Write Now . I'll share a little about each one, ho…

For Today...   evening of October 22nd, 2015 Outside my window... the night sky is lit up by street lamps. I am thinking... how quickly this week went by and that I missed my weekly post that was due yesterday! I am thankful... fo…

Our Family - Fall 2015 Boaz, age 4 3/4 - Preschool/4K  Eliana, age 8 1/2 - 3rd grade Malachi, age 10 1/2 - 5th grade  Dylan, age 15 years - 10th grade  Nathan, almost 17 - 11th grade Jordan, 19 1/2, Sophomore in College M…

We are on our 6th week of the new school year. This week is our first full week of school and Monday was our first Monday of the school year. We had a very full day and didn't finish school until 4:00, but we did everything I "scheduled" in m…

As seen on the Hallmark Channel,  When Calls the Heart, Heart of the Family  DVD is an episode in the Heart of the Family series. The episode is inspired by the novel by Janette Oak, author of the Love Comes Softly series. We loved the Love Comes Soft…

Our way to co-op this past Friday, I found myself behind a slow moving line of cars trailing behind a tractor. I was tempted to take a side street to go faster, but decided to embrace slow. After all, it was a beautiful fall day, and I wasn't in a hurry. …

~Boaz is 4 years, 8 months~  Blueberries for Sal is a sweet, old fashioned story about little Sal and her mother, little bear and her mother, and how they get mixed up on blueberry hill. I am teaching a little learners class at a local homeschool co-…