I'm an elementary school teacher and mother of four. I recently returned to the classroom after being home with my children for 10 years. My children range in ages from 4-11. Many of you may have felt a slight sense of panic and quickly began to wonder how the heck you were going to "teach" your children. Take a deep breath, because you've got this. The very first step to homeschooling your children is to give you and your little ones grace. The second step is to not duplicate school. ...
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Back to School Organization, Printables & Tips
Once August hits, the reality that summer is coming to a close and the school is just around the corner starts to sink in. These back to school organization, printables and tips will help you have your best year yet. This school year we will have three in school! Hudson will be half day with preschool, Eleanor will be in Kindergarten and Quinn will be in second grade! It isn't just school that is startings, but soccer and dance as well. If any of this sounds familiar you are going to want ...
Raising a Family is Hard
Disclosure: This post was sponsored by OxiClean ™ through their partnership with POPSUGAR.While I was compensated by POPSUGAR to write a post about OxiClean ™ all opinions are my own. Raising a family is hard work. Having four kids has taught me a lot of things. I often have people tell me that they don't know how I do it, or that they couldn't. That their two have them exhausted and they could never have four. But I'm not any more special than those people. I don't do it ...
This Thing Called Life
We have been so busy doing life. This mother's day questionnaire from Eleanor shows that not all my hard work has gone unnoticed. Sometimes it feels like that is all I spend my life doing. The kids are officially done with school and all the sudden I'm stuck wondering where the year went. How is it summer already? It is crazy to think that when this school year started, Fiona wasn't even here yet! Fiona turned six months April 20, so we had to do a six month photo shoot for her. ...
How to Get Your Toddler to Sleep Through the Night
One simple trick got our toddler to sleep through the night. With four kids, one being a brand new baby, you would think the baby was the one causing us to lose sleep. Turns out, it was our toddler! Fiona is pretty much a rockstar sleeper. She might wake once for a quick feeding and then back to bed. Hudson, our nearly three-year-old had started waking up regularly and was no longer sleeping through the night. After being a rock-solid sleeper for really long time, our toddler started ...
