Last summer, I attended a few local homeschool mini-conferences and left each of them feeling underwhelmed, uninspired and like I’d wasted a big chunk of time. This summer, instead of scouring Facebook for local conferences and lamenting the travel cost to attend a large conference in California, I decided to read books instead. I felt … Continue reading DIY Summer Homeschool “Conference”
Our good friends from Returning to Paradise invited us to come to family camp with them in July. We had such an incredible time at family camp! me & LR We did So many fun activities. Family Camp is like a summer camp for families so instead of sending the kids off for a week, … Continue reading Leoni Meadows Family Camp 2025
I stumbled across the idea of creating a back-to-school vision board quite by accident. I had a stack of old magazines to use and I started researching ideas online. https://www.bakerross.co.uk/craft-ideas/teachers/kids-vision-board/ https://mymommyflies.com/vision-board-for-kids/ https://www.metroparent.com/things-to-do/at-home/vision-board-party-for-kids/ https://www.tulsakids.com/helping-kids-create-a-vision-board-the-s-m-a-r-t-way/ I invited one of my homeschool mama friends over to our house, and we spent an afternoon working on this project together. … Continue reading Christian Vision Board
This post is out of order, our surprise vacation was in mid-June. My husband is no longer working at two jobs. It’s a long and complicated story with a bottom line of - God provides! We started doing our “weeks of less” to give him some breathing room and prevent burnout since he was working … Continue reading Week of Less #3 – Surprise Vacation
Book #7 for 2025 “Teaching from Rest: A Homeschooler’s Guide to Unshakable Peace” by Sarah Mackenzie Here are my favorite takeaways… “Not an hour passes without the enormity of the task I have taken on bringing me to my knees. This work of homeschooling and raising hearts and souls and bodies is hard. It is … Continue reading Teaching From Rest
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