Boredom Busters spreadsheet
I have become an inadvertent homeschooler overnight, which is both an ego boost and a death wish. Help me with some ideas?
Category: Life around home
Very long hair care 101
Being an Anabaptist woman, while fulfilling, presents certain challenges: such as where to buy good fabric and what to do with your long hair.
Unsocial updates
All last week, I ran from thing to thing. These are the social media posts I drafted and redrafted in my head, and never shared.
Summer things that worked
Here is our philosophy of cleaning in the summer: As Little As Possible. So every year, about the time the kids go back to school, my whole house needs a good shake and a bath.
Two-week review
Sometimes my life spins more quickly than I can follow. Here are some snapshots from the past two weeks. We spent a precious weekend with our second son on his home visit. He said that when I took him back to camp, he wanted to show me Eagle’s Point, so we packed a lunch and […]
Simple chore lists for little people
To make the chart, we drew a simple table in Microsoft Word, and inserted icons to match. Kids like picking the icons that match up with their chores.