If you've homeschooled for long enough, you've definitely come across lapbooks. They are not only a way to organize what a student ...

 Day two of being an empty nester has not gone according to plan. While doing yard work this morning, for the first time in my life, I tried...

 My daughter bought this simple linen dress originally to get married in, and as it got closer to her wedding date, she started reconsiderin...

 If you spend much time at home with a child who reacts to Red #40, you may have figured out on your own that something is amiss. That happe...

See that girl ^^up there^^? When she was still in the womb, I refinished this dresser for her nursery. She is 20. So I decided it is time fo...

If you haven't grown food with your kids yet, NOW is the time to start! The best way to start is to let your child pick what he wants to...

 THAT MY LAST POST WAS IN 2017!! WHAT??!! My Stay at Home Children are now 22 and married, and 20 and getting married in just over a month. ...

If you didn't come here from this page , please go there first! The answer is below this graph.Click on image to make graph larger. ...

The most useful college class I took was statistics, and I still find it useful. Here is a great exercise for your kids! Is this graph misle...

It's been over two years since I've posted to this blog. As a single mom doing 100% of this parenting thing on my own, I've gott...

When my kids attended public school for a year, the concept of "grades" was new to them. They were only in third and fourth grades...

If I had to give this post a subtitle, it would be... "And Why the Schools Do It Wrong." It isn't because the teachers are bad...

You probably already know a couple of good uses for hydrogen peroxide ("peroxide"), and there is a list going around with a pletho...

Today in my facebook feed, there were FIVE references (so far) to this same "Common Core" video. Attached were numerous (sometimes...

When we rented a house for three years, my kids knew that the lease stated "no trampolines," so the week after we purchased a hous...