Feeding Your Family for a Month with Freezer Dinners

Freezer dinners prepping

A couple of weeks ago my sister forwarded me an email from a blogger she follows featuring crock-pot freezer dinners.  Desperate to find a way to stop the 6 o’clock mad dash to the nearest fast food joint, I enlisted my girls to plan, shop, and prep a month worth of meals.  It took us…

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The Grammar of Sewing

Teaching kids to sew

My girls have been dying to learn how to sew.  About three years ago, I started a sewing project with my daughter – a shirt with an elastic waist.  Of course, because when you want to learn to sew, you just pick out a cute pattern and go for it.  Well, as you can imagine,…

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10 Ways to Reclaim the School Room

Reclaim the School Room

We have gone crazy since Christmas cleaning out, organizing, and cleaning up our home.  It all started with my girls wanting to renovate their room.  In order to paint and set their room up like they wanted, we really had to purge.  It was incredible!  After we finished cleaning up everything, there was a weight…

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Good Eats: Countdown to 2016

I love good eats.  Sometimes its tough as a homeschooler because your classroom is also in the cafeteria.  This means generous access to food at almost all times of day.  Yikes! Thankfully this also means when we get our creative juices flowing, we come up with some pretty tasty options…since we’ve been soaking in the…

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DIY Wooden Thumbprint Snowman Ornaments

thumbprint snowman ornament

I love everything snowman, especially snowman made from thumbprints!  They are so cute.  Today I’ll share with you some quick and easy DIY Wooden thumbprint snowman ornaments that your kids will love making and you will love hanging on your tree! This post may contain affiliate links.  See my full disclosure policy for more details.  We love…

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