To my two faithful readers. It has been weeks since my last post. Sorry. So you ask, what have we been up to? Well first we went to go visit some friends up in Wisconsin, doncha know? It was very, very cold.  And breathtaking. The small towns are very quaint and absolutely charming. The snow makes...

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week. After returning home from a week-long journey to a winter wonderland full of friends, ice fishing, skiing and lots of dirty clothes…...

I love History. And I really love The Story of the World. by Susan Wise Bauer. It is by far the best History curriculum I have come accross.  It is a chronilogical study starting in 5000 bc that goes all the way up to 1994.  It is broken into four volumes that take about a year each to complete. You...

Today was a new adventure for us. I have been promising the kids since Payton turned 4 and eligible for a card of his own last April daily for about the past month that I would take them to the library. The weather has been crap. Cold, rainy, snowing… I haven’t gone anywhere I didn’t...

This post is part of "Laughter Lives! Tuesday" on the Riggs Family Blog. Check our their blog to read everyone else's "Laughter Lives!" posts. A couple of years ago some friends of ours invited us to their church. Our friend Matt was filling in for his father, Pastor Ray, who was the regular preacher...

The best way to teach a young child to love to read is to read to them often, starting very young. I read to my kids even if I think they are not paying attention. Toddlers will mimic everything you do (good and bad) and it is no different with reading. There are tons of “teach your baby to read”...

When I started homeschooling , NumberOne was only about 2. I didn’t actually know that I was homeschooling, in fact I had never heard of it. One is a super-smart kid and totally in to everything so I was just trying to keep her occupied and out of trouble. By the time she was preschool age she...