I have had such a hard time lately puting even two words coherently together in a post. I can't write anything. I feel like my brain is mush, my vocabulary has shrunk to about 300 words, and my train of thought has derailed. But I think I know why this is happening to me. God [...]
13 Best-Loved Movies From My Childhood
Jeff and I have talked about introducing our kids to some of the movies we liked as kids, and with our Netflix subscription we've started doing just that. So I thought I'd share some of those memorable movies we're hoping to watch with our kids in the near future. Maybe they'll bring back some memories [...]
Language Lessons with Dr. Seuss
At the beginning of the school year I wrote about how I make up my own first grade language lessons using a short sentence or two from a children's book that illustrates a particular language-related concept. For instance, if we want to study plurals, I might select a sentence(s) that has a singular and a [...]
Beautiful Feed History Study Guides
We switched to using Beautiful Feet guides for history earlier this year, and we have been so happy with it. If you're not familiar with how Beautiful Feet guides work, let me try to explain just a little bit. We're currently using the Ancient History study guide, which is broken up into three sections: Ancient [...]
















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