pre-sunrise MORNING ROUTINE – a slow and productive winter morning routine

This last year I have gotten more into seasonal reading. Last year I shared monthly themed picture book lists here on the blog and this year I wanted to share seasonal chapter book lists. Most of the books on these lists will be what are considered “middle grade” reads which are generally for 8-12 year…

Every year I like to create a list of independent reads for my daughter (and will do the same for my son once he is reading on his own). She never reads every book on the list but I enjoy making it nonetheless. My main goal of the independent reading list is to push her…

In case you noticed, I didn’t post a homeschool week in review for last week. We ended up having some sickness go through our house so we didn’t do a lot on the school front so I figured I would combine two weeks and so I will share the next update at the end of…

follow along on instagram SNAPSHOTS flying – three flights and 14+ hours to get to California (cause we went with the cheapest flight we could and flew in all sorts of directions) good morning anaheim – gorgeous much? wish we could stay. just walking around – Rae and I (okay, mostly I) did tons of walking sunset at…