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Spena School is officially back in session!! After much deliberation over whether to continue with Classical Conversations for a 4th consecutive year, we opted to skip and just be exclusively at home this school year. Which, has turned out to be really wonderful! We had our first day following Labor Day, after our return home from […]

Now that we’re a solid half way through our Spena school year, I thought I would pop in here and give a little update on how our school year is going, what we have left to accomplish, and as we look towards a new school year in the fall- what our plans are! I shared […]

And just like that…..we’re back to it! Sort of 😉 Our first day of Classical Conversations was on Monday, and thus begins Abigail’s 3rd grade year of school! We won’t officially start our school days at home until after Labor Day + beach vacation, but we’ve worked on Cursive, Bible Studies, and Reading all summer- […]

This post is sponsored by Everywhere Agency on behalf of OshKosh B’gosh; however, all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. Today is a big day in our house- it’s our first day back with Classical Conversations! Since we’re homeschoolers, we always have a little like “does this count as our first day of school?” […]

Thank you Mardi Gras Napkins for sponsoring this post. Visit your local retailer to get the conversation going in your home! I absolutely love being a homeschool Mom! But, let’s be honest, it isn’t easy!  I’m a stay at home, homeschooling mom with 2 little girls and 1 baby boy– so some days – whew.   […]

I have gotten so many requests to put together an exhaustive post about homeschooling over the years and here I am- FINALLY sharing it! Homeschooling 101! My husband, Jim, and I were both homeschooled growing up- so we are now officially considered “second generation homeschoolers”. We have been homeschooling our oldest, Abigail, since we started […]

Well we did it! She did it! After starting school at the beginning of August last year (in preparation of little brother’s September arrival) we finally finished up Abigail’s 2nd grade school year at the beginning of this month. Originally, I had her scheduled to mid-May, but if you caught yesterday’s post, we took a […]