Homemaking

How-To: Sew Children’s Pilgrim Costumes for less than $5

Julie / October 25, 2013

Please excuse the unironed costumes.  I didn’t want to wait until Halloween to take the pictures for my quasi-tutorial here, but today turned out to be very, very chaotic.  You can still totally get the point, I think. ;)  I should also add that I can’t tie bows for anything, and someone else will have to tie them on Halloween…

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Homeschooling

Homeschool, week 6, randomness and solutions.

Julie / September 6, 2013

I have learned so much in the past month.  I had all these ideas and so many things that didn’t entirely pan out the way I thought they would.  I have a great urge to try to spit it all back out in an organized post so that others might not make the same mistakes that I did, but then…

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Homeschooling

Fall 2013–the best-laid plans…

Well, after all my planning, I ended up scrambling a whole lot of things over the summer! Still on Tapestry.  Still on Singapore Math.  But we went to a curriculum fair and I have come to realize a few more things, and… pretty much everything else has not quite ended up as I planned! But now that we are working…

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