Posts by Betsy
Top 5 Sweet Healthy Snacks
I am a sucker for sweet snacks. I love cookies, cakes, ice cream…pretty much anything that you shouldn’t eat in mass quantities, I am drawn to. Therefore, if I want to make better choices in my diet, I’d better have some sweet health snacks that are easy to whip up and tasty too! Here’s my…
Read MoreThe Role of Questions in Classical Education
Questions play a major role in Classical Education, and recently I’ve observed that each of the classical arts in the Trivium have specific types of questions that draw out each of the art’s specific purposes. Classical Education and the Trivium In Latin, the “trivium” means three roads or three paths to learning. These three paths…
Read MoreHomeward Bound by Way of Niagara Falls
Our family vacation this fall break was more about the journey than the destination, although we stopped at some amazing places. If you missed the first half of our trip, you can read more here. Thankfully when we left Boston, we didn’t leave our family as they traveled with us to our next destination! This…
Read MoreA Road Trip from Dallas to Boston
This past week was our homeschool group’s fall break. Generally I use this time to catch up on school work, or spread the week’s work over two weeks and just take it easy. This year we decided to take our school on the road and go visit my sister in Boston! We had been saving…
Read MoreSo you think you might like to start a blog
I never would have imagined six months ago that I would be one to start a blog. At the time, my husband and I were looking for creative income streams, and I thought he would be great as a blogger. He loves to write, so why not? We went to a meeting our friend who blogs at Laugh…
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