Getting Organized


Finding Our Late Elementary & Transition Years Homeschool Groove

Finding Our Late Elementary & Transition Years Homeschool Groove

This month is the start of our winter school term. To make record keeping easier and also because I like seasonal rhythms, I divide the year into Winter, Spring/Summer and Fall "school terms".

Announcing Winners and Other Cool Stuff

Announcing Winners and Other Cool Stuff

I loved reading your intentions on the One Bite at a Time giveaway post. This morning I randomly choose three winners (using Random.org) and the winners are: Anonymous (there were several of you, I sent an e-mail to chosen "anonymous"), Analicia, and JHollyhock. Congratulations. For the rest of you who ...

New Year's Intentions ~ One Bite at A Time (with Giveaway!)

New Year's Intentions ~ One Bite at A Time (with Giveaway!)

I don't make New Year's resolutions. Those don't work for me. I also don't have a life bucket list. That's just way too stressful for a high achiever and high expectation person like myself. I fear a bucket list would become an obsessive-compulsive thing where I was either driven to ...

Changes in These Middle Years (Video) ~ Defining Structure

Changes in These Middle Years (Video) ~ Defining Structure

This video is the second part in a two part video series about our Middle Homeschool Years. I also answer the question - how does interest-led learning work within structure?

Three Kids One Bedroom (not littles either) ~ How We Do It

Three Kids One Bedroom (not littles either) ~ How We Do It

How our three kids share one bedroom while living with my parents in Nova Scotia.

Resources to Help You Get Organized

Resources to Help You Get Organized

This time of year feels new to me. Full of possibility. A time of year, quite frankly, to organize the heck out of my life in attempt to make at least some of my goals a reality during this next calendar season.

The Good, The Bad & The Embarrassing ~ FIMBY Outtakes

The Good, The Bad & The Embarrassing ~ FIMBY Outtakes

Talk about a pleasant surprise at FIMBY yesterday when all the no-nonsense mothers came out of the closet, so to speak. I feel like raising a rolling pin in Radical Homemaker fashion. We need to unite or something. Form a union, NNM (No-Nonsense Mothers). It was nice to hear all ...