Ever since getting married I’ve struggled realizing I have no idea how to feed myself and my husband. Now that I have children I have felt even less capable of keeping my meal planning in order. However, there are a few practices that help me stay mostly prepared. I want explain my history and why […]

Entering our homeschoolers into the public school system at any point can be stressful. But if you add in the stress of a college application to the situation it can make the stress seem like too much. There’s a lot that goes into college acceptance. Even going through public high school, a child preparing for […]

Let’s face it, running a household, and especially running a homeschool can be overwhelming and we can often find ourselves spending too much time on some things, and not enough time on others. Managing our time is a lot more difficult when we don’t have public school parameters to work around or a full time […]

Oh boy, are you guys in for a treat! Homeschool fears run rampant these days, and I’d like to address them. Before I say too much more, take a glance at my free homeschool resource library. will be enough to bring peace to the minds of those interested in homeschooling. Homeschool Fears So without further […]

Are you ready to start homeschooling? Jumping into a homeschooling journey can be stressful beyond comparison. Homeschooling includes a complete change in lifestyle, another layer of responsibility as a parent (or child), and sometimes being subject to other people’s opinions of your lifestyle. Most of the time you will notice very quickly how much of […]

Gratitude is probably one of the strongest driving factors in happiness and progress. Gratitude allows us to look outside of ourselves and towards the people, places, and opportunities that have blessed out lives and made so much possible. How can we better be thankful every day? Now I’ll be the first to say that my […]

If you are anything like me, then a cluttered messy house can be the WORST. I can’t finish anything in a dirty house. Want to eat breakfast? “Oh check it out, dirty dishes in the sink. Guess I’m not eating breakfast for four hours.” It is wonderful in some ways because my house can never […]

My family, from the earliest days I can remember, always loved going to public libraries. We went regularly. Often we would go at least once a week with my mother who was probably even more book-obsessed than I am (which is saying something.) My mom never bought a lot for herself, but her splurging was […]

The biggest culprit of goals we make that we can never keep, or at least never seem to keep, is new years resolutions. You make a plan at the beginning of the year to work out every day, eat healthy all year, and learn tons of new things and by the second week of the […]

I would consider myself an aspiring author. Writing is probably one of my favorite pastimes (obviously, because here I am) and I can write almost any form of document with glee. Shopping list, blog post, journal entry, short story, or novel; you name it, I’ll write it. And my love for writing extends farther the […]