I wanted to do a quick round-up of any new curriculum we used this year in our homeschooling. A lot of our curriculum we have used for multiple years or with multiple kids, so you can read my thoughts on those from last year’s post. That post includes All About Reading, Math-U-See, Math Facts Pro, …
What I’m loving L’Oréal Magic Root Cover-up Spray I started getting gray hair when I was 18 years old and I am pretty sure I would be completely gray now if I didn’t color my hair regularly. I get it colored every 6 weeks, but within 3 weeks I have a serious gray stripe where …
I have talked about struggling readers before (here and here) and shared some of my favorite tips, but I have a new tip that is really helping now. My struggling reader is in 2nd grade and reading has started to really click for him. There were times I doubted we would ever get to this …
What I’m loving Preemptive Love Coalition I love the work Preemptive Love doing. They really do exactly what they say they do — showing up on the frontlines and unmaking violence with love. Specifically, they work across Iraq, Syria, the United States, and beyond. They show up where no one else is. Our family personally supports them; …
What I’m Loving Today’s Showroom Leggings I realize leggings have been popular for a while now, but I finally found my perfect pair so I need to share them. For just over $12, these leggings are super soft with a yoga-style waistband. I really can’t explain how comfortable these are without a big price tag! …
Last year on a random Saturday night, I decided we should have some kind of Christmas adventure with the kids. As with many of my ideas, it was completely spontaneous. But this one turned out so well we will definitely repeat it this year. Here are the basics of what we did. I told the kids …
I’m Loving Chatbooks Chatbooks is an app that collects all the photos from your social media and phone and puts them into cute, little 6-inch photo books. I love them! It takes all my Instagram photos and captions and mails me a book for $10 with free shipping. I have my account set to automatically send me a …
Yes, the title does say May 2017 and I do realize that it is now mid-August, but I wrote this in May and never got around to posting it! I thought about just deleting the whole thing, but I really do love some of the things I included and wanted to make sure I shared …
My 3-year-old’s very favorite thing to do is cooking in his play kitchen. It has been his favorite for at least a year and a half, which means we are always looking for fun things to add a little variety to his cooking. He specifically prefers things he can actually “cook” with, like this New …
We finished our regular school year (we do school mostly year-round) and I want to take a minute to talk about what we used this year for various subjects, what worked well for us, and what we ended up ditching. Overall, I have been really happy with our school year and I feel like we …