St. Patrick's Day has always been one of my favorite holidays as a kid, because I did Irish Step Dancing and it was a busy season for us. As a Mom, I have so much fun sharing my love of all things Irish with my kids on this holiday and making it fun for them. As with all holidays, the best traditions are the ones that everyone in the family loves--and that includes Mom! Lean into your strengths and what makes you happy and that happiness will trickle down to the kids. And if

One of my very favorite parts of parenting is reading aloud with my kids. I've loved it since my first was a baby (she loved to sit and be read to, even at a really young age!) and it's only gotten more fun as they've gotten older. I share books with my kids in two primary ways--I read out of a novel with them at bedtime for 20-30 minutes each night and we have a family audiobook that we listen to together (in the car, especially on long car trips, but also sometimes while co

One of my favorite parts of homeschooling is during the holidays when we can theme a lot of our school activities around the holiday! With a baby, I'm feeling a little behind, but I have started planning some Halloween homeschool activities to do with the kids this Halloween and I wanted to share them here! Halloween Crafts Skeleton Paper Garland For this activity, you use paper chains to make a large skeleton . We have already done a few simple skeleton activities this year

We have been using Reading Eggs in our homeschool for a few years now and I thought it might be useful to share what I like about it, what I haven't liked, and how we use it with our kids for homeschool. Reading Eggs is an app and website that teaches reading and math through different online programs that have learning pathways . The pathways include games, videos, books, and tests/quizzes . It can be used on a computer or on your phone. It is about $10 a month and allows

I love doing holiday-themed activities with my kids and this year I decided to choose one Halloween-y topic to dive deeper into with my kids! I picked skeletons and we had a lot of fun with it. Books on Skeletons The core of our unit studies are always books. Here are the books we read together: Understanding Muscles and the Skeleton by Robert Snedden This book has a lot of information spanning the skeletal system. Because my kids are young, I didn't read all of this with th

One of my favorite traditions (that encompasses most of our other traditions) is our Book Advent. This is a tradition we have where the...

A few weeks ago, my oldest daughter Ashtyn (age 8) caught some caterpillars at her grandparents' house. She has always loved bugs and...

When I became a mom, I knew that I wanted to share my love of reading with my kids. I started off reading a lot to my firstborn and after having my second, I read the Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. That book only grew my passion of reading aloud. Sometimes, there are books my kids love that I have a harder time reading aloud and other times, I find a book that is an absolute joy no matter how many times my kids ask me to read it to them. Today I am sharing some of my FA