There is a secret power in 15 minutes... Some jobs just stink. You know you should work on that pile of laundry that has been sitting there waiting for you to put them away, but your day has been crazy and you just don't think you have it in you.  You are so. crazy. tired. Or maybe its that cabinet handle that jiggles and every time you open the cabinet you think, "I should tighten this handle", and you say the same thing to yourself the next morning and every day for the last year. There are … [Read more...]

My Crazy Crew There's always music in our house.  ALWAYS.  And if the music isn't blaring, the kids voices are.  It is So....Incredibly....Loud.  But most of the time, I don't hear the noise.  I'm not exaggerating - One time, I was teaching a Bible study in my living room and one of the women attending interrupted me to ask if I could tell my 4 year old not to pound on the piano while I was talking.  The piano was only five feet away from me.  I hadn't even heard it.  I just tune things … [Read more...]

Need help practicing your Classical Conversations Memory Work? These lapbooks make memory work review hands-on, colorful, and engaging! It is soooo easy to forget about memory work when you are focused on finishing math, and reading, and read-alouds, and piano, and grammar, and spelling, and writing, and.... Don't let your memory work study slip!  One great way to remember to focus on your memory work is by using the My Memory Work Lapbooks!  In just a few minutes a day, your student can add a … [Read more...]

The sale on Cycle 2 My Memory Work Lapbooks ends MONDAY AT MIDNIGHT!!! Come see why families love having a resource to show off their memory work!       … [Read more...]

For those of us planning our school year - a post from the archives... I have learned over the years that one of the best indictors of a successful and more peaceful school year begins with quality summer planning and preparing. There are a few things I do over the summer that makes the Foundations side of our school day run well, and I share them with you in case they might help you have more sanity than chaos this school year. The Classical Conversations Foundations program is … [Read more...]

  I remember so clearly the day I was running on the treadmill, listening to my audio Bible and suddenly had to stop the treadmill immediately.  I was so surprised by what I heard!  We had been using the Classical Conversations program for a few years, and I had discovered that my children memorized easily when the material was set to music.  And here it was, right in the Bible - God knows we memorize permanently by music!  Here is what I heard: Deuteronomy 31:16-22 And the Lord said … [Read more...]

This post is a continuation of the story of how Wisdom and Righteousness began.  If you missed the first part, you can find it HERE. When we left off last time, I mentioned how the random product buttons and descriptions on my original blogging site started to make it difficult for people to find what they were looking for.  After all, a standard blog isn't really set up to sell products.  I was spending a lot of time answering emails to try to help people find what they were looking for.  As … [Read more...]

Did the Essentials moms out there notice the alliteration in the title of this post?  My Essentials class just loved adding alliteration to everything! Well, here we are back again at Cycle 3 with our Classical Conversations curriculum!  It is probably my favorite cycle, since there are so many ways to offer hands-on learning with field trips related to U.S History and Geography. This will be our third time through, so I want to dive even deeper for my older kids, and make sure the middle … [Read more...]