Helping your future self is not a new idea. In fact, I've heard several bloggers that I follow mention it fairly recently. The idea is to constantly be thinking of ways to make life easier for yourself in the future. When I'm feeling especially unmotivated, I try to think in terms of what "Future Katy" would want me to do right now. Would she be better off if I rested now? Then I'll do that. Would she have an easier time making dinner if I spent five minutes now washing the dishes from the … [Read more...]
2021 Day In The Life Of Our Homeschool
It's time for this year's edition of "What do those homeschoolers do all day anyway?". If you're new around here, we have five kids: Jonah (5th grade), Matthew (4th grade), Hannah (2nd grade), Elizabeth (Kindergarten), and Sarah (3 years old). My husband Jesse is a grad student at Baylor, and I'm the home manager/teacher/writer. This particular day in the life was a Tuesday, and was pretty typical. 6:15am. I wake up. I am the last person awake. That should tell you something about life … [Read more...]
How To Put Together A Simple Novel Study
While I was doing my homeschool planning over the summer, I went looking for novel studies for Jonah and Matthew to do. I was looking for something that would combine reading comprehension (did they actually read the chapter and understand what happened), vocabulary, and maybe some other sort of grammar or part-of-speech related question. I didn't really find what I was looking for. What I found were bits and pieces. I found lists of questions to go with chapters in some of the novels … [Read more...]
2020 Year in Review
2020 was quite a year. How's that for an understatement? But 2020 was actually a good year for me in many ways, although certainly not how I expected it to be at the start. My 2020 word of the year was calm. My life by the end of 2019 had gotten pretty hectic and chaotic, and I was ready to slow things down and be calm. Although that might seem laughable, I did manage to calm some aspects of my life. I quit my job at Dunkin mid-January. I was getting stretched too thin trying to juggle … [Read more...]
2020-2021 Homeschool Curriculum
Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. Another homeschool year has started, and we are back in the swing of structured learning! As with other years, I like to share what we are using for our curriculum choices this year. We do quite a bit of the classical style of book work, followed by a whole bunch of learning through play and interest-based free learning. … [Read more...]
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