Wisdom And Righteousness

When You Need a Schedule: Day 3 – Establishing a Beginning and End

Day Three:   Establishing a Beginning and End In this constantly bustling society, one area that often gets overlooked is the amount of sleep everyone is getting.  Some might be getting too much, but if you're a mom of young children, chances are that you aren't getting enough sleep.  I can be totally guilty of that - robbing time from sleep to get things done.  But if you don't have rest, it makes you much more irritable and less … [Read more...]

When You Need a Schedule: Day 2 – Narrowing Your Path

Re-posting this series from the archives.....   When I was a kid, we ran from one activity to another.  We were involved in EVERYTHING.  While I appreciated being able to do nearly every activity I ever desired, I reflect on childhood as a very frazzled time - always running from one activity to the next.  Today, I struggle with performance-based approval which I believe stemmed from this frequent activity.  How much can I get done and how … [Read more...]

When You Need a Schedule – Day 1

  Since it is planning time for everyone, I thought I would re-post this series from the archives.....   Creating a Family schedule that Works for You! I know - you're as ecstatic as I am.  You could barely sleep last night thinking about scheduling....am I right?  huh?....oh yeah, baby!!   No?......  You're not that excited? Oh.  Okay.  In that case, it is a good thing we are going to take this one step … [Read more...]

Curriculum Choices 2013-2014

  In light of the fact that I love hearing what other people are doing in their homeschools, I wanted to post our homeschool plans for this year (2013-2014). Memory Work - First and foremost, we will be focusing on our Memory Work.  You can read all about what we memorize and what resources we use in THIS POST.  Of course we will also be using the My Memory Work Lapbooks as a hands-on project based way to review our CC memory work.   Reading - Our … [Read more...]

Our Memory Work

  We love Memory Work around here - it just seems to be so fruitful in the long run! Since my kiddos memorize well to music, we are able to get a lot of info into our little noggins in one year!  So there are a number of things we will be memorizing this year, and since I love hearing about what you all are doing, I figured I would post what we are doing.  Today I will focus on Memory Work, and later this week I will fill you in on the rest of our studies.   Memory Work … [Read more...]