Author: Jamie
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10 Things that Make My Day
Top 10 {randomly ordered} things that make my day: 1 – Peaceful times in the day when all the kids are happily occupied. Lately, one of the best times for this has been when big sis Kathryn gets out the LEGOs and helps the littles build and play with them. 2 – An organized closet….
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Nature Notebooking Pages
We love using these bird notebooking pages for our nature journal. These are two from Kathryn’s notebook last summer. We have one in-process on robins since we have yet another robin nest on our back porch right now! (This post contains affiliate links. See disclosure.) We already love using NotebookingPages.com for our nature journals, but…
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Preschool thru College: Beginnings
We’ve had a whole lot going on around here, from the youngest child’s last day of preschool to the eldest child’s college graduation, and all sorts of things in between. I was blessed to have all my kids at church on Mother’s Day, including my daughter-in-law! It’s funny: I never even thought to imagine the…
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ALS Awareness Month
I hate ALS. This disease took more from Dad than his final breath: ALS stole his speech. ALS stole his ability to eat, or even swallow his own saliva. ALS stole enjoying a cup of coffee with friends at Waffle House. ALS stole cruising through the mountains on his Harley. ALS stole wood-chopping and physical…
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Top 3 Challenges in our Imperfect Homeschool
I like to keep it real. So today, let’s talk about the imperfectness of my homeschool… We are schedule challenged. Our days don’t start at a set time. (Actually, mine do now, but that’s because of the kindergartener in public school and a really early school bus.) That’s works just fine sometimes, but there are…