• Red Apple Reading

    Parents often tell me they could never homeschool because of what is involved as kids get older. Well, the older they get, the easier it gets. At least in this house. Reading has my biggest challenge when it comes to teaching the kids. Every one…

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  • spider-girl at my kitchen table

    When I suggested she jump off the bench, she told me that Spider-Girl does not jump off low benches and neither do five year olds. The face. The hands. The pose. Cutie. Five. She starts kindergarten in a few weeks. Considering we homeschool, that is…

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  • our white stained wood floors

    I was sitting in my living room with a friend talking about how our wood floors needed to be refinished. With 5 kids and lots of their friends running in and out on them, they had taken a beating. I was asking her for advice…

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  • DIY {fabric decoupage planter}

    Part of refreshing things around here has been making updates on old posts and transferring DIY posts (and others) to pinterest. On a weekly basis, I get visitors from Pinterest wondering about a couple decoupage pots I made years ago. (original post here). Since I…

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  • from floors to funnel cake to SnapShop

    I had great plans to make some much needed updates to this blog last week…but life happened! It would probably be wise to shut down this blog and do all the updates at once, but I’m afraid that could only happen if I had someone…

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