Connection is a new monthly series here, featuring simple ideas to spark connection points with our children and the world around us each month. In...

There are a million and two reasons to keep your phone tucked away and out of reach during the day, but an audiobook is not...

For growing bookworms and movie aficionados, a library card can save oodles in the family budget. Add homeschooling to the equation and a library card...

In an ideal world I would be able to keep up with all of the things my heart wants to do at the present, including...

I often pride myself on the flexibility homeschooling brings, the freedom to bend our home’s learning, to do things differently. Go to a park in...

This time of year always feels a bit like Christmas. New books arrive in the mail and fresh paper and pencils fill our shelves. Although...

Gift giving is my love language. Whether it’s something handmade, something gently loved and no longer needed, something you can experience, or something new, I...

I began this blog a decade ago next month, just after Blythe’s first birthday––before Olive, before homeschooling, before any personal financial collapse, before Instagram or sponsorships,...

I tend to get more emails this time of year wanting to hear what resources and materials we’re using in our home. Early in this...

I know it’s mid-June, and most every parent in the northern hemisphere has already blocked last school year out of their brain and moved into...