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This Is My Hobby: Playing With Paint
I wrote this post on our blog about painting and my love of paint over on Steemit. Not everyone uses that platform and I felt inspired to share it over here as well. This article was written as an entrance into a contest about hobbies. I hope you enjoy it. ——————————————— I discovered the This Is My Hobby contest hosted by @anomadsoul and I felt inspired to join in. As a creative person, I have so many hobbies and interest, so this is actually a challenge. I decided to take this on not for the prize, though that would be nice, but for the change to explore my thoughts deeper while writing. What is…
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Yes, I Have FOUR Boys. No Prayers Needed.
Yes, I have four boys. Four wonderful, respectful, intelligent, imaginative, and fantastic human beings that I have the pleasure of calling my sons. I am proud to be their mother. Meet Lucas, Jack, Ian, and Walter. At the time of this photo, they were 8, 6, 4, and almost 2. Aren’t they adorable? I especially love Ian’s outfit. He picked it out all by himself and was in love with the tie. They are the loves of my life. My four boys are my reasons for being who I am today. I was grocery shopping the other day. It was a typical Tuesday morning at Costco. The store was quiet,…
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Resources For New Readers
Teaching a young child to read can be the most rewarding and the most frustrating thing you can do as an educator. All of my children have learned to read in different ways and at different ages. We do not like to push this skill, as we believe that a stressful beginning to this journey will hinder the enjoyment down the road. We like skills to develop naturally and on pace with the individual child. One misconception about unschooling is that we do not teach our children. This is not true. We just do not teach our children in a traditional, curriculum related way. If you want to hear the…
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Please Don’t Quiz Child – Homeschool Storytime
While at the grocery store, my homeschool children were quizzed by a random stranger. This is our story...
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Treehugger Cloth Pads: A Zero Waste Product Review
Fluffy pillows for your vagina. That is how a customer explained Treehugger Cloth Pads, and it could not be a truer statement. Treehugger Cloth Pads is a Canadian company owned Crystal Burton. I first discovered Treehugger Cloth Pads 5 years ago, while working in a cloth diaper store, and have been hooked ever since. Treehugger Cloth Pads makes reusable menstrual and incontinence products. The pads come in 4 different absorbency sizes: pantyliners, light flow, heavy flow, and overnight or postpartum. The pads are topped with either minky, bamboo, or cotton and are backed with fleece. All of my Treehugger pads are ones topped with minky. Minky is a super soft…
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Questions For A Homeschool Mom
There are so many misconceptions about what homeschooling really is. The main reason for these misconceptions is that all homeschoolers are lumped together into one big category when, in reality, there are so many different types of homeschooling and homeschoolers. We are life learners or unschoolers. This does not mean that we do not educate our children. That is a misconception for another post. We do educate our children, just not in a very obvious way. There is no desk work, no worksheets, no classroom. Learning encompasses our entire life, and we learn through being apart of the world around us. I was recently invited to do a video collaboration on YouTube. …
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Top 3 Reasons Why We Homeschool
Making the decision to homeschool can be a hard decision to make. For some, it is a no-brainer. Perhaps you were homeschooled and it just makes sense in your mind and heart for you to homeschool your children. Perhaps it has always been how you wanted to teach your children. For others, deciding to homeschool can be a difficult decision. There are many factors that go into the decision-making process. We weighed the pros and the cons but knew deep in our hearts that we were destined to be homeschoolers. What are our reasons? Being There For Milestones Many parents think of milestones for their babies. Once they get to…
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Wonder by RJ Palacio – Book Review
Wonder is a story about August (Auggie) Pullman. August was born with craniofacial abnormalities. The story takes place as August enters the 5th grade. He had been homeschooled by his mother, but now he will join his classmates at Beecher Prep. Wonder is all about his journey through the fifth grade. I bought Wonder over a year ago. We were doing a scholastic book order through our school board and I asked the boys to pick out whichever books they wanted from the catalogue. One of the boys had circled Wonder. I ordered the book not knowing anything about it. When we got the book, I read the inside cover…
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Remembering Your Why
Remembering your why, your reason for doing what you are doing, is so important in life. So often we forget why we began doing what we are doing, or forget why we are aiming for the goals we seek. So often in life, we also strive for outcomes without even thinking about why we want that thing. Do you want financial success? Do you want freedom? Do you want notoriety, fame, stardom? Perhaps you are doing something because you have a message to spread or information you want available to a wider audience. Perhaps you want control. Recently, I teamed up with a few different Moms and did a collaboration…
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Free Printable to Help Organize Your Content Ideas
It is time to get organized and create some awesome content for your social media. Whether its blogging, youtube, or something else, this free printable will help you stay organized and create something awesome!
