Happy New Year!!!  Whew! We made it to another year. Twenty-sixteen is going to be great. I just know it! Speaking of great, I bet that like me, you got some great gifts last Christmas, didn’t you?  Maybe you got a cool, new tablet or THE smartphone you’ve wanted since even before it came outcontinue…

If you know me, you know I LOVE rain. Lucky me.  It’s been raining for three days now, with some more due tomorrow. Thanks, El Nino. Of course, I’m well aware that not everyone’s been welcoming this much rain in California.  I do pray that there will be no lives (and homes) lost due to this muchcontinue…

Let’s cut to the chase. Having a site that loads quickly increases the chance that a new visitor will stay on your site. You know this because from your own experience, a slow-loading site has made you impatient and irritated, causing you to go somewhere else. And in the back of your mind, you said, “I’m not goingcontinue…

My cousin recently posted a photo of her calendar and collection of colored pens.  I thought it was all very cute, so I responded by collecting my own writing materials and taking a photo of that too.  To my surprise, I had more than I thought I did – AND I discovered that maybe, justcontinue…

I’ve been working on getting my 1st grader to spell her Days and Months correctly every time she writes it.  To help her along, I made this printable. I printed one out and posted it on the wall in front of her desk, for reference. Then, I took another one and placed it inside acontinue…

Fall is my favorite season. I know I’ve said that before, but that’s only because I really love Fall.  If we could get rid of all the other seasons and just have Fall all year long, I would be okay with that! Everything about Fall is awesome… the pumpkin spiced latte, the sound of crunchycontinue…

We’re in our 8th week of homeschool.  If you homeschool, you know that your week in school doesn’t necessarily correspond to the week of lesson plans you’re supposed to be in. You see, one of the PROs of homeschooling is that your schedule will be dependent on the student’s strengths and weaknesses in every subject. Since ourcontinue…

We just finished the second week of our multilevel homeschool! I’m happy to announce that we’ve all survived. Worn out, but still breathing.  That’s a good sign, right? I mean, just look how happy they are! This year, the (almost) eleven is in 6th grade. I’ve been homeschooling her for 6 years! What’s different, and challenging,continue…

Oh it’s been a very busy Wednesday for me. Not busy as in I got a bunch of things done. Nope. Busy as in I have four kids running around while I try to convert an old (Windows XP) PC laptop into a Chromebook that runs flash kind of busy. I’ve successfully turned it intocontinue…

I’ve recently gathered up pictures of my kids when they were all roughly the same age – a little less than 1 year old. It was interesting to see just how strongly they resembled each other at that age! Have you ever looked at photos of your kids in the same age, just to compare? Whatcontinue…