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AKRON, OH — The Perry family made their annual appearance at Oak Hills Birthing Center this week, getting their punch card stamped for the sixth time -- and now they're just one more stamp away from getting a free delivery, according to sources.

Trishna and I were starstruck to get to meet Anne and Diana at Green Gables this week in Prince Edward Island – you can continue to follow along with our family’s PEI journey here! Weekend homeschool links: When summer’s harvest feels like so much work Middle Grade Book List Featuring Black Boys and Everyday Life The Best Picture Books about Bravery My Ages and Stages of Homeschooling FREE Mini-Workshop Series Here’s Why Every Mom is Exhausted, Based On Their Myers-Briggs Personality Type 2 years ago on the blog: Prioritizing mental health in your homeschool this year In case you missed...

Please Note~ This post may contain affiliate links. If you choose to click on a link, add it to your cart, and complete your purchase, I will receive a small percentage. We are very grateful for this additional source of income. Thank you.Good morning, dear friends! It's Friday, are you glad the week is done? Mine hasn't been that bad. I've just tried to stay busy. WoodstockThis was our back-to-school week here in our house. Sadly, things look very different here. This is the first time in 16 years that I have no lesson plans, projects, or fun activities planned. Both...

Managing expectations has never been my strong suit. During the course of our basement remodel, my impossibly pragmatic husband Stuart was constantly reminding me to keep said expectations in check. Don't expect the plumbers to show up on time. Don't expect the permit to be approved without jumping through some hoops. Don't expect the budget to stay perfectly on track. Boy was he wrong. … I'm kidding. Obviously, he was exactly right.  (Side note: If one expects any project to go according to timeline, budget, or desired outcome, they're likely to be sorely disappointed.) None the less, I am an eternal...

Our Language Arts Activities at the Start of the Year I wanted to share some of the things we are doing for language arts in our homeschool as we begin year. For our homeschooling family, we think of language arts as basically four different activities: 1) independent reading, 2) a novel we read together, 3) language arts (literary analysis, grammar, vocab, editing, etc.) and 4) writing. We try to do all four of these every day. Number 5 used to be spelling, but we stopped doing spelling regularly at some point when the kids were in middle school. You can...