Making it home, the art of homemaking.

We have a couple birds we’ve started to watch out our dining room window at breakfast each morning.  Sometimes an occasional fat Robin, but often we see the same gray bird perching on the fence.  The gray bird has been building a nest.   this...

Vision

We just got home from a celebration. A family trip yes, but to us a celebration that was 10 years in the making. Ten years ago we started a journey to become debt free. We were under debt from school loans, car loans, credit cards and the bondage of not knowing how to...

I’m not the same mom I used to be

Today was another busy day of all things at home. Homeschool, meals, laundry, reading stories, outdoor play. We even ventured out for a quick trip to the chiropractor. The nightly routine of dinner, baths, and bedtime stories are the standard here in our home. But...

Our (classical) homeschool curriculum

Years ago when I had only one little toddler at home, I was surprised at how excited I was to teach him. It just came naturally, since he was a baby.  Over the years I’ve realized that as a mom we teach our kids from the moment they are born. Introducing...