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Ready to celebrate the Holy Days and feast days coming up in November? What about learning more about the saints? This list of books, arranged in calendar order, will help you to be prepared to live the liturgical year at home with your family! Can You Find Saints?: Introducing Your Child to Holy Men and […]
Are you looking for the perfect way to teach geography in your large family homeschool? Don’t miss our favorite resource for teaching geography through literature. A few weeks ago, my Daniel caught me as I stared at our computer’s screen, riveted and heart-broken. The Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris was in flames, while people around the […]
Are you ready to start planning your Saint Nicholas crafts? We’re going to be visiting one of our Orthodox Christian friends for the feast day, and I’m so excited! My kids have been exploring all of our Catholic Advent crafts for kids and they wanted some special activities to get ready for this special day. […]
Although we live in a subdivision, we have an expansive lot, with plenty of room for a passel of kids to explore nature. Trees for climbing? Check. Cul-de-sac for riding bikes, skates, and scooters? Double check. Creek for getting muddy and checking out frogs, salamanders, snakes, and turtles? Triple check. One beautiful fall day, I […]
CRASH! Breaking glass. Again. In a house with five children, the sound of breaking glass isn’t uncommon. Dishes falling to the floor. A BB shot gone awry. Or in this case, a box of microscope slides left over from my husband’s microbiology class five years ago. I sighed and grabbed the broom, turning just in […]