What is Fun-Schooling?
About 10 years ago, a wonderful woman named Sarah Janisse Brown designed a new style of homeschooling called Fun-Schooling. Fun-Schooling is fun for kids, effective at helping them learn, and EASY for moms! Fun-Schooling is using kids'...
Can you believe most schools have started again already?! I feel like I blinked and we’re in August already. This year I will have a high, middle, and elementary schooler, all of which have been die-hard “packers” since Kindergarten.
For...
Unless there is a financial hardship, buy the school supply list. The whole list. Don't fight the details or the teacher on why she needs three boxes of Kleenex or a specific brand of pencil. Just buy it.
Our teachers...
Seven years ago, we started homeschooling our three kids. Four years ago, my oldest decided to return to public school for high school. Two years later, the second followed. And now, we are preparing for our youngest to start...
With summer coming to an end, nights of lightning bug catching, jumping through the sprinklers and drippy popsicles will soon be replaced by early morning alarms, school bus drop-offs and school lunches. If you grew up around the same...
Undoubtedly, storytime since birth has always been a very healthy outlet to the growing mind of our children. Yet something changes between the ages of 5-8 in this journey. As they attempt to grow independence in their reading, they...
I LOVE giving gifts. Maybe, a little too much. This past Christmas, my mom even asked me, "This is it, right?" Gift-giving is one of my main love languages. Any time a gift-giving opportunity comes up, I get excited....
I am a type B personality with type A tendencies. I am amazing at going with the flow, but I do better with a clear and concise plan. After deciding to homeschool our early-elementary-age children this year (1 toddler,...
Typically, my son watches no television and is essentially screen-free. Enter 2020 and COVID-19. Our "typical" failed to remain. Seriously though, whose did?
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
When life shut down, we...
"Why couldn't I go in?" My 3-year-old sobbed. My mom and I were driving away from Liberty Heights after I turned in the enrollment paperwork for his first year of preschool, trying to comfort an inconsolable toddler. Any other...
In + Around Cincinnati
Cincinnati Spring Break Staycation {Oh, the Places We’ll Go}
This year for spring break, we are planning on staying home, minus a weekend at the in-laws' to celebrate Easter. We are looking forward...
