Holiday Craft Shows
A few of our favorite holiday craft shows in eastern Pennsylvania. Make sure to visit them this Christmas season.
Explaining Lockdown Drills to My Homeschooled Children
We chose to homeschool for academic reasons. I really didn’t like the district we were living in and I wanted my children to thrive academically. The longer we continued to homeschool, the more uncomfortable I got with things going on in public school. Standardized tests in order to graduate. Pushing kids beyond what is developmentally …
Questions to Ask Your Homeschool Evaluator
Selecting a homeschool evaluator can be a daunting process. Here are some interview questions to help determine if a particular evaluator is a good fit for your family. Not all evaluators come from the same background. Some have classroom teaching experience. Others do not. It is important to chat with your potential evaluator before you …
Gardening Resources
Gardening resources that are available online are such a blessing. You can do your planning and comparison shopping from home, while going through your current seed inventory with your garden plans spread out around you. What a way to spend an afternoon! We had our first killing frost last week, and while I haven’t even …
5 Tools to Make Cleaning Bathrooms More Efficient
Cleaning bathrooms is my least favorite household task. The room that needs to be cleaned most often … the bathroom. No matter how much we dislike cleaning bathrooms it is a task that each of us has to endure. I do not have the luxury of hiring out for this task, but I do delegate …