I first started blogging when we moved to the Alger house, and we lived there ten years before closing on a decade of delightful learning . I'm so grateful for the time I spent documenting our life. I love having it to look back on.  The summer before we …

I wrote this post, Making Everyday Homeschool Moments Special,   for Sonlight Curriculum . While looking through a family photo album recently, Eliana, 11, said, "You've captured all the special moments. I wish you would have taken more photos of e…

I wrote this post, The Blessings of a Homeschool Library, for Sonlight Curriculum . I'll never forget how happy and proud my son Jordan was after we completed our first year of homeschooling with Sonlight. All the books he read that year sat on the …

I wrote this post, Rhythm, Ritual, and Rest in the Homeschool Day, for Sonlight Curriculum .  While every homeschool is different, I believe there is one constant that helps us get through our homeschool days, and that is rhythm, ritual and rest. Rh…

I wrote this post, Homeschooling Through the Seasons, for Sonlight .  We often think of homeschooling in terms of years when choosing our curriculum, or in terms of days when implementing it, but we must also think of homeschooling in terms of seasons — se…

This post, Stacking Up Your Homeschool Day, was written for Sonlight Curriculum .  While I don't need to have every minute of our day scheduled, I am always happy when our days fall into a steady routine. I used to rely on a checklist of subjects…