Springtime is my favorite season for read-aloud outdoors. In light of the current quarantine, turning our attention to the new life outside our windows feels...

Our four children are five and a half years apart, meaning when we began our first formal year of homeschooling, I had a kindergartener, two preschoolers,...

  Each afternoon, indoors or outdoors depending on the weather, I read aloud with the kids, while they flip through nature books, illustrate and paint. We’ve...

We didn’t plant a spring garden this year, minus a few yukon gold potato plants (which we’ve already harvested) and a handful of herbs. The spring felt...

One of the greatest gifts in my thirteen years of motherhood has been friendship, having other women in my life to hash out the hard questions...

When children are very young, they have natural curiosities about the world and explore them, trying diligently to figure out what is real. As they...

As a child, Valentine’s Day was one of my favorites. At home, our celebration was beautifully simple, typically a special dessert or snack or note...

Although I did well in maths growing up, teaching it is an entirely different story. For me, each class during my childhood to early-adult years was a...

We tend to keep the holiday season in our home fairly simple in terms of gift giving, both the quantity and expense. This isn’t from...

I have always appreciated the simplicity of Thanksgiving, how much and how little it requires of me all at once. On one hand it is...