Category Archives: Housekeeping
Working The Plan: Back To School After Christmas Break
Aaahh! Time to resume our “normal” life after the holidays! The schoolroom move is nearly complete and I’m ready to get back into lessons and regular chores! I’m not sure if the children are as ready as I am, … Continue reading
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Tagged planning and organization, Working The Plan
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The End Of The Break
We took a good bit of time off in December. Children were sick, I was sick and Christmas and Advent stuff needed doing. ?It was nice to have a bit of a change and to get some projects done but … Continue reading
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Tagged homeschooling, organizing, schoolroom
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It’s Been A Busy Week!
Just a few highlights before I head out the door to get Buggle a haircut! The other boys I’ll do myself but his hair is so thick and curly! We’re getting ready for our annual Christmas Feast and I’m so … Continue reading
Posted in Advent, Celebration, devotional life, feasts, homeschooling, Housekeeping, Life, Organization, Uncategorized
Tagged Christmas, planning and organization
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Invitations to Play and Learn: Less is More
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working at reducing the number and variety of things available to the big children (7 and 6) in non-school hours and the little boys (4 and 2) during school hours. Part of … Continue reading
Kitchen Kids: Toddlers In The Kitchen
One of the reasons that Buggle and Mouse are as comfortable in the kitchen as they are is that they’ve been in the kitchen with us from the time they were tiny! Some of that is the function of the … Continue reading
Posted in cooking, Housekeeping, Life, preschool educcation, preschooler chores, preschooler cooking
Tagged Kitchen Kids, Toddlers
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Continuing Education
This post contains affiliate links. I had a moment of panic yesterday when I realized that I was leaving for Virginia and the HEAV Convention next Saturday and I haven’t finished my list of curricula, picked the workshops I want … Continue reading
Encouraging An Interest You Don’t Share (and that makes a mess!)
Mouse is creative in the artistic sense. She loves to make things to pretty up the house. She cares about clothes and what looks “cute”. She wants lotions and soaps that smell nice. She also loves bones,the workings of the … Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, Creativity, Encouragement, free play, Housekeeping, Life, Uncategorized
Tagged Creating, Mouse
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The Dawdles: Cleaning The Whole House
Not long after I started using the timer and post-it note method to cure the dawdling habit, we woke up to a rainy Saturday and a house that desperately needed some help! Four children full of energy plus two grown-ups … Continue reading
Posted in Housekeeping, Life, preschooler chores, Uncategorized
Tagged chores, dawdling cure, housekeeping, jobs, Preschooler chores, training preschoolers
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The Dawdles
When I was a girl I loved the Miss Piggle-Wiggle books. That spry old lady was so creative in her cures for laziness, not-wanting-to-go-to-bed-itis and other childhood ills! When faced with a persistent behavioral problem I occasionally ask myself, “What … Continue reading