This is my family’s fourth year of homeschooling, and in those four years we have used several different English writing and grammar curricula (such as Bob Jones, Shurley Grammar, IEW, Instructional Fair Diagramming, Write Source, and various grammar workbooks). All of these curricula have their strong points, and we didn’t necessarily switch specifically because of [...]

Bethany (age 3 months) did not cooperate as much as she did yesterday, so I really didn’t do much in the kitchen today.  I spent most of the day snuggling her.  Life’s not too bad when you cannot do work because you get to snuggle a baby!

For Breakfast we had cinnamon toast and yogurt (Both [...]

Monday’s are usually my kitchen day, but today was an extra busy one! I had several things left over from last week to finish up, and other things I needed to do today in preparation for the week to come.
Eric took the three oldest children to a work day for a local [...]

I first heard about Handipoints through our local homeschool group. Everyone seemed to love the program, so I knew I had to check it out. Although we haven’t begun to use it yet, I am planning on working this system into our chore routines sometime soon.
According to their website:
In addition to powerful parenting tools for [...]

My name is Naomi and I live in Northeast Ohio, somewhere between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. I have three children (8th grade, kindergarten and just turned two) and a husband who works incredibly hard for our family, so that I can stay at home! I blog about our personal life at Donuts and Graham [...]

We spent July “Conquering The Clutter.” In August, we focused on getting some extra “Face Time With The Kids.” (If you’re new to Happy To Be At Home, you can click here to find out what our six-month “End 08 Great Challenge” is all about.)

But this month, we are challenging all of us to get [...]

I am so excited to be starting this week! It is fun to show everyone what we eat, and how we function. Not always an easy task! For those who missed my intro, I have 9 children ranging in age from 15 to 2 months. Obviously, the baby doesn’t eat what [...]

This is the second of three guest posts by our friend Amy, who blogs at The Finer Things in Life. Her three part series focuses on getting things done with toddlers. As a mom who has had toddlers for the past 13 years I cannot wait to read her ideas.

Cleaning at my house, well… I’ll [...]

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
Chapters 9 - 16
These 8 chapters were filled with so many events, surprises and revelations it’s hard to know where to begin the discussion. So I’ll just run through some of the biggest developments in the story line.

Father Tim met his neighbor for the first time. I think the [...]

This morning I woke up not feeling very well at all! I think I am beginning to get a cold because I think I have a sore throat. But nonetheless we trudged on with our plans for the day. I dashed off to run an errand while Joseph fixed breakfast for the little man and himself. [...]