Remember when you were on family vacations as a kid, spending your summer playing that license plate game with your siblings as your family road-tripped to one vacation spot or another?  Aw, come on - you remember, don’t you?   Trying to spot a license plate from each of the 50 states?  I don’t remember ever […]

Hi, I’m Linda, and I’m an accidental homeschooler. I’m the mother of a 9 year old daughter, who is not quite half way through fifth grade.  Homeschooling was never part of the plan.  Sometimes plans change.      Kindergarten, day one:  My impulsive, bright, hyperactive, and opinionated daughter decided public school was for babies.  She came home […]

During the summer, the last thing your kids probably want to hear about is intensive work. They want to have fun, you want to have fun, the whole family wants to have fun! It would be easy to not do any kind of school work, but you know that when kids take a total break […]

Sunday after church, I ran into someone I hadn’t seen in a while. One thing she mentioned was that she wished she could homeschool her oldest child because he was having so much trouble at school. She meant to only comment in passing…and went on to list all the reasons she couldn’t and prepared to […]

I’m looking for some ideas, maybe some good sites that are free, for this summer to just review what we’ve learned, so he doesn’t forget, but also have fun. He LOVES animals, so anything animal centered would be great.
I plan on doing a lot of baking with them since they both love to do that. […]