Our field trip group gathered on the rough-hewn porch of the 1850s homestead, kids sprawled across the stairs with moms huddled behind them to hear the presentation. Our guide, who looked as ...
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Surviving the Spring Slump
This week is spring break for the schools in our area. Our family took an early spring break to coincide with my parents’ visit two weeks ago, but I won’t lie: another ...
A Myth of Homeschooling (and how we REALLY spend our time)
I think that one of the biggest myths around homeschooling is that homeschool moms spend forty hours per week around a table or engaged in other “educational” activities with our children. I ...
Lately || February 2026
In my experience, February is usually a pretty slumpy month with icky weather and not much on the calendar. Well, this year my February was the opposite of slumpy. Our weather has ...
Thirteen Things I Learned This Winter (about vision, waterparks, taking breaks, and making mistakes)
My mom sends out a Friday Fun Fact to our family text thread every week. At the beginning of the month, she shared this gem: “February started on a Sunday this year, ...
The Simple Things That Are Saving My Life This Winter
Charleston and I like to joke that we really love winter. . . at least, the part of winter that comes before Christmas. Unfortunately, the remaining 86 days are kind of a ...
Lately || January 2026
Only a month into the new year, and 2026 has made it pretty clear that she isn’t here to play. The headlines are heartbreaking, and while our family’s trials are no match ...
Lately || December 2025
How was your December? Ours was a whirlwind, and also wonderful (minus the whack-a-mole game we were playing with illness in our home all month). I’m recapping the month a day early ...
Two Thousand Twenty-Five: The Highlights!
I recently read that the week between Christmas and New Year’s has a name: Twixtmas! I hope that you are enjoying a lovely Twixtmas season. I always get sad once Christmas is ...
What I Learned in 2025
I’m going to go on record in saying that 2025 has been one of my favorite years of my adult life. It’s not that it was an easy year, far from it. ...