Meet Our Canadian Family
Welcome. I’m glad you’re here. I’d love to introduce myself! We live in Ontario, Canada. I grew up in Northern Ontario but moved to Southern Ontario 16 years ago. Southern Ontario is where I met my husband. We’ve been…
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Our Display Book
Our family is learning Proverbs 4:23. My friend Jen writes at Jen’s New Song and has decided to make scripture memorization a focus for her family this year and will be sharing her KJV printables on her blog as she…
Little Passports and a Brigadeiro Recipe
We signed up for Little Passports this past summer. I’d read good things about it. My children love to get mail and I was tired of Chirp magazine. Our first box contained a welcome letter from Sam and Sofia, the…
Review: A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman
We use Sonlight in our homeschool. Their educational approach to learning through books is a good fit for our family in this season. Something that I love about their books is that it’s not just the children who enjoy them,…
DIY Magnetic Map of the World
Last summer we bought a map for about $7 at Costco. It’s pretty big, it’s poster-like but lightly laminated if that makes sense. Wipeable, I guess you could say. I didn’t want to…well….tape it onto the wall like I…
#MomHeart Conference 2014
These are my friends, new and old, from the MomHeart Conference in Texas last week; one friend I met online 5 years ago, three I met last year at the conference in NC and two were brand new this year…
Sonlight Instructor Guides are Great!
You know one of my favorite things about Sonlight, aside from the delightful books that make up the bulk of the curriculum, is their instructor guides. I love how it is laid out, how we can skip and add and…
Allowance in Our Family
Why an Allowance? We have always given our children offering for church; “money for Jesus” they have called it since they could first speak and tottle off to their toddler class. Usually it was a quarter – sometimes two. One…
Once Upon A Homeschooling June Day
We’re still full on doing school. I think I mentioned that with all the appointments and such this past year, we took many days “off” and thus will be schooling through the summer. No worries though. Beautiful days, parks, good…
Pop Bottle Birdhouse Craft
The tots got a magazine from McDonalds a while back that had a pop bottle birdhouse craft in it. Since moving here last spring and hanging up our first ever feeder, our family has become bird watchers. The tots love,…