As home educators we face the unique challenge of having our homes be our living spaces as well as our classrooms. While there are advantages to having a separate space for school (I do fantasize about how nice it would be to just close the door on the mess), I decided to take a holistic […] Read more…
This post may contain affiliate links. Taking charge of our children’s education can be both empowering and daunting. Many of us turned down this road looking for options in education but found ourselves wading through cluttered websites, confusing curriculum spreadsheets, and state standards that require a degree in Bureaucracy to decipher. While there are many […] Read more…
It’s been SO long since I did a reading post! I missed these! I think the last one I did on the blog must have been a couple (gulp, THREE) years ago! In between time, I did a lot of book posts to Instagram and you can find them archived under my hashtag #fayesreads. You […] Read more…
Hello friends! Are you here from Instagram? A lot of you are because there’s where I’ve been doing the majority of my posting for the last few years! For a while I was really focused on learning Instagram and growing a following there. I liked some of that, but it left me a very narrow […] Read more…
I have so many big thoughts and feelings about homeschool this year that it was a challenge to get words put down, but I think I finally did! To start, this year we will have a third grader, a first grader, and a preschooler. While we now have the added variable of a fourth child, […] Read more…
Do you guys miss the old hey-days of blogging? I do. I felt inspired to write a newsy life update today. I love going back and reading old posts like these. (I actually have about eight year’s worth now!) A lot of this is lengthy notes from Baby Land, where I know I will lose […] Read more…
It’s countdown to baby time over here, but I really wanted to get this post up before things get too crunched! (For my readers, but also for me!) I read last year’s post about our first grade plans, and it was fun to see how much things have grown and changed in our homeschooling life. […] Read more…
I know all of you who are familiar with our recent kitchen saga have been waiting so long for a kitchen reveal! I have been dreaming of the day I could write this post myself. Well. It was a very, very slow process. My kitchen is now totally updated and redesigned, but to tell you […] Read more…