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Simple Skills to Cultivate During Your Summer Break
Summer is my favorite season of the year. It’s restful, fun, and rejuvenating. In farming terms, it’s the time when the crops are growing, and the harvest is soon to come. If you’re a farmer, you can’t just plant your seeds in the spring time and just show up in the fall and expect a…
Read More10 Books that have Movies Worth Watching
If you’ve read my blog for a while, you’ll know that I love all kinds of books. If you’ve been to my house, you’ll know that the walls are being held up with bookshelves! I’m an avid reader, collector, and lover of great books. Even though I’m fond of print, I do, however, enjoy movies…
Read More#THSCKnowsTX – And How to Host an Amazing Convention
Thanks THSC for hosting our family at this year’s convention! Mother’s Day weekend I had the privilege of attending the Texas Home School Coalition’s 2016 Convention. It was a weekend full of fun times with friends, refreshing times of encouragement, and inspirational times from speakers. I had never been to a THSC Convention, and by…
Read MoreCultivating Observation Skills with Simple Nature Journals
It has been BUSY around our house the past couple of weeks. Wrapping up the end of a school year always comes with extra events and tasks that wear me out. While our Classical Conversations group ends at the end of April, I’m not usually ready to say, “Schools out for the summer!!” (Although it…
Read MoreTeenage Vocab for Dummies (i.e. Parents/Adults)
I spend a lot of time with teenagers, and one thing has become quite clear: most of the time I have no idea what they’re saying. Even as I write, the “teenage vocab” I’m sharing with you is nearly ancient history because the times change, and words go in and out of style. Not knowing…
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