“This is not our home,” Mark told the kids, pointing to the house we’d lived in the last seven years — the only house they...

For a while now I’ve had other moms ask, “how do you do it? I want to homeschool, but I don’t know where to begin!...

Some of you have already read how we formally started on this homeschooling journey 5 plus years ago. (If you haven’t, you should read it...

In preparation for our school year, Mark and I sit down for an annual planning meeting. Not a date. A meeting. You know, pens, planners,...

These single days of the year we set aside to salute the parents in our lives feel to me a bit like fitting a blue...

Olive’s crying right now. For the second time, I’ve returned her to her bed for rest, a quiet both of us need. I’ve seen this...

Mom, You blew into our daily lives for a brief three days last week to help Kristen and me collect pieces of our days and...

1. soaking up tender moments with the kids. 2. keeping meals simple at home. 3. inspired by pink. 4. reading My Ántonia by Willa Cather....

I’ve had several requests to post a “day in our life,” and it actually surprised me how difficult it was to log a full day’s...

Garfield, Blythe, age 5, crayons and ink pen “Mom!” Blythe’s running at me, distraughtly waving a piece of paper. “Mom! I’m throwing away my Garfield drawing!”...