I recently finished up a Hexie Stripe quilt and had a do a glamour shoot to show her off! I love the hexagons and how colorful this one is! (…recently as in almost a year ago – I found this post in my drafts and realized I never posted it! Whoops!) This was a fun […]
Archives for 2025
Christmas School Round Up
Every year in December we pause our usual school work and do “Christmas school” instead. It is one of the highlights of our school year! Until this year we haven’t used any formal curriculum or plan outside of what I came up with on my own (maybe sometime I’ll do a post about what our […]
Our Weekly Tea Time: The Details
This summer we started doing weekly tea time or, as we’ve started calling it, tea party. It was a huge hit with the kids, I had a blast creating our parties, and it has become something we all look forward to each week. Most weeks I share pictures of our tea parties in my Instagram/Facebook […]
Our 2025-2026 Homeschool Curriculum Line Up for 6th grade, 4th grade, and 1st grade
Here we go into our 7th year of homeschooling! Here’s an overview of our 2025-2026 homeschool curriculum for 6th grade, 4th grade, and 1st grade.
Classical Conversations Cycle 2 Tutor Plans
Here are my Classical Conversations Cycle 2 tutor plans for the 2025-2026 school year. This year my class is mostly Apprentice students (ages 6-7). If you want to see what I did week by week in video form, I’ll have short recap videos on YouTube for each week – you can see those HERE. This […]
Classical Conversations Cycle 2 Ideas and Prep {Foundations}
Welcome to my Classical Conversations Cycle 2 ideas and prep info! Each year I love putting together a YouTube video showing what all I’ve done to prep for the upcoming year of CC. I try to link to eeeeeverything in the comments so my fellow CC parents can easily find it but the lists of links grows and grows each year and has outgrown the YouTube description box! So I’m moving my info over here to have it all in one place. Here you’ll find physical resources, digital resources, worksheets, hands on activities, supplemental resources, organization tips, links to everything I’m using, and more!
Our Favorite Read Alouds
One of my favorite things to do with my kids is to read to them and one of my favorite parts of our homeschooling day is our read aloud time. We also frequently do family read aloud times in the evenings and it’s so fun to share a story together as a whole family. Reading […]
Sugar POP Quilt in the Most Gorgeous Colors
A few months ago I finished up a Sugar POP quilt by Suzy Quilts and it has become my favorite quilt I’ve made so far. Something about the colors I choose – they’re so pleasing to my eye and I’m just in love with them! Don’t they just scream “summer”?! I feel like the pink/coral/orange […]