So, what started a couple of weeks ago as a little tickle in the back of my throat turned into a cute little heh – heh every once and again, then turned into a seemingly constant annoying cough that felt like razor blades in my throat, which then turned into to a full-blown case of Read More

Whenever Little Buddy gets a dollar, it is immediately burning a hole in his pocket to go buy the latest Lego he’s been eying. From the boxes full of 100s of bricks to the Star Wars sets with more bricks than I could ever imagine and his Mindstorms, he loves them all. He loves them Read More

  Last summer, we took about two or three weeks off as our summer break as we finished second grade and went into third. That gave me time to finalize all of the reports for our permanent records, clear away items that we wouldn’t be using for our third grade year and getting all of Read More

  It’s testing season in most school systems across the nation and depending on the state requirements, many homeschools are not exempt from providing standardized testing for their children. Standardized testing can actually be a fairly hot topic in many homeschooling circles. My small town is no exception to that either. While we live in Read More

Our Christmas break was just exactly what we both needed. I thought we’d both be bored beyond words by the week before Christmas, but we weren’t. I thought I’d be in the school room every few days tidying up and preparing for our return in January, but I haven’t. I thought we’d take tons of Read More

Today we’re celebrating two special days in our homeschool – Apple Day and the invention of the light bulb. Haven’t heard of apple day? Don’t worry, I’d not heard of it either until recently. According to what I’ve read, apple day began in 1990 in London as a day to celebrate apples and apple orchards Read More