Breathing Space

I would have written a review, but a good friend of mine and an exceptional homeschool momma wrote up a great one. Her blog follows her unsc...

seder table 5:30 erev pesach My older boys were born right around Pesach. 3 yo was born three weeks before Pesach, and the baby (who jus...

During the past legal holiday, we visited a nursing home. My friend posted that she would like to visit, as a חסד (kindness), but her kids a...

I have seen some talk lately putting down the lifestyle of baalei batim as a second-best choice to full-time Torah learners. Usually this ta...

We have been having some really great days with 8 yo. No, we have not changed anything that I can say. Daddy has been around a bit more, and...

This is what happens when I have an activity scheduled just for 10yo (homeschool day at Anne Frank exhibit) in a part of town where we usual...

Today I took 8 yo to Six Flags. He did "Read to Succeed", a reading program in which, once the kids document six hours of reading ...

4 yo started reading Bob books. I had them forever, and I was pretty sure that she knew her letters, or at least enough of them to start rea...

We spent the night in the northern reaches of Indiana. From experience, I can tell you that it is better to get a suite with a separate bedr...

taking a picture of a butterfly It's one of those road trips which has the potential to be really good, or really bad, depending on...

 Friday afternoon in the park ( for 20 minutes, I dragged all the kids to the library for the book sale which is taking place in MARCH). ...

Lately we've been having bad days. Not just a little blech, but, really bad. no good, rotten days. My husband had been on call, the baby...