It’s Halloween time and I’m exploring 31 Great Books to Read to Your Kids—what better author to share with your kids than Edgar Allan Poe, the master of suspense? Homeschooling post updated 10/29/2023 Reading a well written suspenseful tale—even one that includes murders—is nothing like watching a gory scene on TV or acting one out […]
An Old Fashioned 8th Grade Education: 4 Personal Development Books To Read Before High School
This is my 9th year of homeschooling! Last year, when Jefferson was in 8th grade, he informed me that he wanted to go to public high school. All of my relaxed, meandering, unschooling-but-not-unparenting educational ideals screeched to a halt, replaced by a drive to get this boy fully educated before he went to the local […]
The Arizona Teacher Walkout from a Homeschooling Mom’s Point of View
I was almost late to Jefferson’s baseball game last night because Bell Road in Glendale, Arizona was clogged up with rubberneckers trying to take live video with their phones from their cars as they passed the #redfored demonstrators who lined the sidewalks on the busy street. Crappy drivers and silly demonstrations are normal in Phoenix, […]
Free Printable Roald Dahl Poem: Television (Turn it off!)
I put a new free printable resource in my Teachers Pay Teachers store: Roald Dahl Poem “Television” – Free Printable – TV Turnoff – 3 Minute Celebrations! If you’re like me, you’re unaware of National Donut Day until around noon on National Donut Day, when you finally figure out why everyone is posting pictures of […]
104 Days of Summer Vacation Day 3: Memorial Day
I finally got to pull out the great patriotic bunting I left packed away for four years because we were moving from place to place to place to place. Now we’ve bought a home and I get to be the dorky mom who decorates the outside of her house for all the holidays! The great thing […]
104 Days of Summer Vacation Day 2: Family Game Night
Easy Summer Fun Yardwork and Coke. Church. Everybody went swimming—even me. So cold. The kids washed the cars. Night swimming with tiki torches (I skipped that round). Jameson made brownies. We are eating way too much sugar around here, but it’s a holiday weekend! We decorated the house with patriotic bunting and the American flag for […]
104 Days of Summer Vacation Day 1: Yardwork and Coke
There’s 104 days of summer vacation And school comes along just to end it So the annual problem for our generation Is finding a good way to spend it Like maybe… 104 days of summer vacation! The countdown has begun! If reading the words “104 days of summer vacation” doesn’t put the Phineas and Ferb […]
New Arizona Marijuana Government Wants Your Kids to Smoke Pot: NO on Arizona PROP 205
As an Arizona mom, I’ve been screaming NO! on Arizona Prop 205 from the start. But just like people are not reading the Democratic party platform (read Why Moms Should Be Afraid of the Democratic Party Platform), nobody seems to be reading Prop 205! A NO vote on Arizona Proposition 205 means you do NOT want […]
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Why I Let My Kids Eat Crap at Christmas
Do you stick to your healthy diet during the holidays? What about your kids? I let my kids eat tons of sugar at Christmas time—actually, from Halloween through around January 5th. Not January 1st, because only a fool would attempt a healthy diet reboot while there is still pie in the house. [Affiliate links are […]
