Paris Mountain Hike

Longest. Hike. Ever. Okay, so not really, but for someone who’s been slacking off on her fitness routine the past few months, this hike totally kicked my butt. It was something like 2.5 miles.  I know, I’m a wuss. I DID have Eliot strapped to my back the whole time, but that doesn’t really exempt [...]

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Home School Mom Survival Skills: The Absolute Basics

Someone could write a book on this topic–not me–and probably already has, but there are a few things that I’ve learned are absolutely essential to surviving your day as a mom who teaches her kids at home. No, they really don’t have anything to do with the kids–you can read all of that in the [...]

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Pinchanzies

There was this really great moment the other day as I was driving Liam and his buddy Brayden to Giggle Bugs to play, when I couldn’t help but listen in on snippets of their conversation. ” . . . as the pinchanzees were swinging from the trees . . . “ ” . . . [...]

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Special Days with the Elder Children

Andy recently took Liam, Gillian and me with him on one of his work trips to Raleigh. After already traveling for two weeks in a row we decided it was worth the extra effort to be together and packed up all our school stuff, sent Squire to kick it with his Nali and Grandad, and [...]

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I Heart Liam Originals

My children have quickly learned that the blog is where I post pictures and talk about the things I like, the things that are special to me. They’ve learned that for me, taking a picture of something and sharing it with others is a way of naming gifts and giving thanks for them. Therefore, they [...]

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Settling Into Moments

We’re well into week four of our school year and starting to settle into a bit of a routine. The scariness of teaching two separate grades at the same time is wearing off, but the reality of trying to do so with a needy toddler underfoot is sinking in. As I reach the end of [...]

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Back To School

We’re halfway through our second week. It has been utter chaos. It’s honestly been pretty hard for me not to get overwhelmed. Eliot is running about the house at a mile a minute, climbing in and on everything and tearing apart anything that comes in, or can be torn into pieces. After he does all [...]

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Interview With a Graduate (K-5 that is)

I cannot believe our first year is already over! It’s crazy how fast it went and how much fun we had. Granted, there were days I really didn’t want to teach and there days when , well, I just DIDN”T. Overall though, I LOVED the flexibility. I loved not having to leave my kids somewhere [...]

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Graduation

I was looking at the last of the lessons plans for this year and it hit me all of a sudden that Liam is almost done with Kindergarten! He’s “graduating” from Kindergarten. This sent me on a mad chase up the attic stairs to dig through an old box of photos to find this. Then [...]

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Spring Fever . . .

. . . . is upon us in every way. Homeschooling is hard, blogging almost impossible, breathing even a challenge. I’ve got a couple of drafts that I’m working on, but I need courage to post them. I need guidance to write the words that would serve. Hopefully I’ll have something up soon. All in [...]

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