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Old Chest of Drawers = Craft Supply Center
I’m trying to make our home more creativity-encouraging. Part of my plan involves providing plenty of art and craft supplies — and making it easy to find things, and easy to put them away! A major step towards that goal was finding a chest of drawers to store art/craft supplies neatly but out of sight…
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Working towards Creativity
Recently, I have discovered FIMBY, and it has become a new favorite blog, largely because of the way Renee’s family makes creative arts a priority. The projects are awesome (check out her daughter’s Japanese doll and a handmade chess set), but even if we never make those sorts of things, I want to do a…
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Grapevine Bible Studies Curriculum Review
Stick-figuring through the Bible: We reviewed Grapevine’s Esther study. A description from the publisher: Travel back in time with your children and teens as they study the book of Esther. Bible students will begin in the ancient Persian Empire, as King Ahasuersus banishes Queen Vashti and begins a search for a new queen. Watch as a…
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Homeschool Week: Farmer’s Market, Cute Dog, a Weird Car, and MORE Summer
We’re past Labor Day now… which means summer is unofficially gone, but it’s still feeling plenty hot around here, and I am soooo ready for fall weather. History, Math, Literature Kathryn is enjoying history (America the Beautiful). In fact, she asks to do things like vocabulary words or writing assignments so she’ll have papers to…
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A Story of Open Adoption {Guest Post}
Thank you SO much to Monika for sharing her personal experience as the birth mother in an open adoption! Monika’s story is part of an ever-growing collection of guest post adoption stories here on See Jamie Blog! If you have a personal adoption story of your own to share, please email me. The year was…
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Our crazy homeschool (& a shiny new friend)
I’m trying to organize my weekly reports a little better, with subheadings and stuff. Hope it makes for easier reading! 😉 The basics After much thought and prayer, I decided to drop geometry for Lindsey. She doesn’t need it now, nor will she likely need it for whatever career path she may take. If she…