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Okay, it’s December 2 and I’m sitting down to write this. That tells you what my November was like. And most of what made my month crazy there are not pictures for and I can’t totally put on here because it involves things that I won’t share publicly. (There are affiliate links in here) The month started off with the end of my college r...
I attempted to recreate Christmas in Iceland, and very quickly discovered I do not have the necessary baking skills. So this became a slightly less aggressive set of Homeschool Christmas and geography lesson, and instead focused a bit more on the spirit of the activity. So, an Iceland tradition is to make leaf bread. I was going to make it from scratch and had included a reci...
As part of our Christmas in Germany unit, we read The Gingerbread Man. There are so many great copies of this book you can find (I’m somewhat partial to the Jan Brett version), but for this particular unit, since we were studying Germany, I stuck with the original tale; besides, it made a great homeschool reading lesson. The kids were already familiar with the tale ...
There are a whole slew of great books about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower to use for our history lessons, but I wanted to do something a little different, so we watched, drumroll please: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (affiliate link, there are several more in here) I remember seeing this as a little kid and my Mom recording it, as well as the other historical specials (which ...
October has been so insane. I’m attempting to catch up with it all, and get life caught up, and I don’t know how I thougth life would slow down once the kids were in college. Clearly I was insane to think that. (there are affiliate links in here) This is all from that weekend I think towards the end of the first week. The kids came down for their friends&a...
