Perhaps one of the best parts of Spring weather is all of the wildflowers blooming. We naturally are outdoors more, and so I always look...

Our family has been studying the 19th century this year, and while we are only scratching the surface of events and topics, it has been...

  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...

When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such...

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...

I don’t often write about specific curriculum here, mostly because I believe children and parents can thrive together in learning at home regardless of the...

The girls received beautiful play scarves from Shovava last week, and the timing could not have been better as it has rained almost every day of the...

Several weeks ago, long after my children were in bed, one snuck out to the kitchen to find me–I’ll leave names and pronouns loose to preserve...

When I first began homeschooling, I always imagined learning fundamentals of math, language, science, and history in a playful and artful way. At that time,...