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Meet Jethro! He’s so cute! . . . #kitten #kitten

Meet Jethro! He’s so cute!
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After trying several different programs, these two

After trying several different programs, these two things have been the most successful in teaching my three oldest kids how to read and making it all click. I love that these resources are inexpensive, require no prep, and work! I’ll have the blog post linked in my bio and you can see the video on my YouTube channel if you’d like to know more!
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We took the kids blueberry picking this afternoon.

We took the kids blueberry picking this afternoon. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for the last couple of years and we just never made the time for it. One of my favorite memories as a little girl is going blueberry picking with my Papa. A few of my kids really loved it and we got a basket full of berries to make some yummy cobbler!
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“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All othe

Homemaker, housewife, stay at home mom, homeschool

Happy Father’s Day to this amazing man! God coul

Happy Father’s Day to this amazing man! God couldn’t have picked a better partner for me to raise our big, ol’ family with!
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New blog post and video! I’m sharing a tour of o

New blog post and video! I’m sharing a tour of our 2020 Ford Transit 350 15 passenger van! Have a question? Drop it below and check out the post on my blog and video on my YouTube channel! 🚐
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Homeschool Planning Post #2 Once I have the kids’ individual subjects hammered out, I begin working on books and add-ones that I want to include with our history and science subjects. I purchase many of our homeschool read alouds from thriftbooks.com. .
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I’m not going crazy with buying extra books this year. I have found that we never end up reading a such as I planned and with this year being a baby year, I’m trying to be realistic. Fingers crossed we can make good use of the library, too! P.S. I’m really excited that we are going to be studying the Middle Ages!
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Alright, mamas. I’m diving headfirst into homesc

Alright, mamas. I’m diving headfirst into homeschool planning today. I have our main curriculum (@mfwbooks Rome to the Reformation and Kindergarten) already purchased. Both of those boxed sets cover many subjects and I’ll get into talking about planning with those in my next post. Today I’m mapping out individual curriculum choices.
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I’m using a blank notebook and a pencil for this process. I know it’s possible I will make changes, so this is very much a brainstorming session to me. I am trying to keep our choices relatively simple and succinct.
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Over the years I have found that a less is more approach really works for our family. Sure, I could try to jam pack our days, but I think I would just end up frustrated by how much of my list was left undone. It’s better for all of us in the house to have a shorter list of to-do’s that are actually attainable. Are you interested in seeing more of my planning process?
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Looks like he’s taken ownership of this baby kit

Looks like he’s taken ownership of this baby kitten!
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Nothing like picking flowers from your backyard an

Nothing like picking flowers from your backyard and bringing them inside to brighten up your space!
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My latest blog post and video is showing off this

It’s been a while since I have posted over here.

It’s been a while since I have posted over here. I recently removed Instagram and Facebook from my phone and it has been really nice. I have put Instagram back, but will be limiting my time here. With that said, I do love the beautiful homeschool community and still want to be here with you all! If you’re on my newsletter list or watched a recent YouTube video, I announced we are expecting baby #7! We are having a baby girl in November! Check out the video with details as well as an update on the end of our homeschool year on my YT channel! ❤️
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We are just hanging out getting ready to slide int

We are just hanging out getting ready to slide into summer! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about blogging, vlogging, and the messages I share here and there. The internet is such a weird place. Social media has a tendency to exhaust me when I scroll and see pictures of perfectly trim moms with all of their children lined up and smiling in their seemingly perfectly organized homes. If I’m being honest this space often leaves me feeling inadequate. .
I see so many organized homeschool spaces with themed sections full of printables (are my kids the only ones that don’t really care about a board full of themed printables that I’ve spent significant time printing, laminating, cutting, and hanging?) I’ve been missing the authenticity of blogs back in the old days when we didn’t all need professional photos for our stories to be seen. .
So, I’m just going to keep on doing what I did when I started and just share our journey. I’ll only share products I personally know and use. (Like the cute Flexi-Clip giveaway on the blog right now!) I’ll share the beautiful and the messy, oh and there’s a whole lot of messy here! And when I need to take a break from this digital world that is both so inspiring and educational, but also overwhelming, I will do so without guilt that I’m missing something! How about you? Can you relate?
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You know how I said a couple of weeks ago that we

You know how I said a couple of weeks ago that we have been “unschooling” because I’m so burnt out with this quarantine? Well, the last part of our Creation to the Greeks curriculum in @mfwbooks is on Ancient Greece and I really want to touch on it with the kids. I’m definitely abridging the lessons and focusing on the living book, Theras and His Town, as well as a few of Aesop’s Fables. We definitely are not doing all of the activities or even the History Pockets I had planned, but reading aloud is easy enough. I may even get us dinner from Taziki’s to celebrate the end of the year! Win win!
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G I V E A W A Y I have been wearing my rose gold F

Happy Friday! We have some new faces here, so I th

Happy Friday! We have some new faces here, so I thought I’d throw out some #Friday introductions so you can get to know me! This is my first #vanselfie in the Battle Bus, also known as our 15 passenger van. I’m an army wife and a homeschool mama to six. I run a blog and post about Homemaking and home education! We are Catholic converts currently enjoying life in Alabama!
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Last week I wrote a post on the blog all about wha

Projects with Daddy. Ava says, “We are helping D

Projects with Daddy. Ava says, “We are helping Daddy build something with wood!” .
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We have had a stray cat hanging around for a while

We have had a stray cat hanging around for a while. Our two outdoor (fixed) cats kind of took her in and share their food with her. She has been very skittish and would run when we tried to pick her up. One of my sons got to hold her a time or two, but that was it. Well, we found she left us a present on our back patio, three little kittens. She’s hanging around and letting us pet her and handle her babies. Aren’t they so cute??!!
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