Homeschool Makeover: School Books on the Mantel

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Sometimes rearranging refreshes learning. Sometimes it also helps remedy the winter blahs. Me? I like to rearrange furniture. Especially in the dead of winter. But this idea took me a while. It took giving myself permission. See, I thought a mantel was supposed to look a certain way. A touch of formality. But when the [...]

All Things Chalkboard

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From last year’s school planning archives because these basics still work well with rising 8th, 7th, 4th, K and soon-he’ll-be-a-four-year-old… I love chalkboards. I love chalkboards. I love chalkboards. And even though right after our school year ended, we went through a rather reluctant classroom revamp, the classroom still needed attention. Before getting any further [...]

Simple Easter

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It all started with the stuffing of the eggs. The little girls and I were putting chocolate treats in each one. But we needed more plastic eggs to fill. Because we wanted the four siblings, the ones still in the children’s department at church, to each take two dozen eggs. We needed more plastic eggs [...]

My room re-do

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We were discussing redoing the house. We even discussed putting a desk in my room. I agreed that that would be nice, but I didn’t think it would happen for at least a month or so. That is, until a couple Friday nights later Mama & Daddy came home from a date with a desk [...]