Hello & welcome to Happy Little Homemaker! I’m so glad that you stopped by! I would love for you to subscribe to my RSS Feed. You can also find me on Pinterest and Twitter. Thanks for visiting!As I mentioned with my preschooler, I totally changed back to a book-centered approach to learning. The curriculum approach […] Read more…
Mid-Year Curriculum Changes – PreK {2014-2015}
So we have changed up our homeschooling for Itty Bitty after attending a Mom’s Night Out at the Child’s Preservation Library. My original plan (before I started homeschooling) was to just use great books. I totally lost sight of that and now I have come full circle back to that. It’s working much better for […] Read more…
Simplify Everything 2015 {Task 12 – Curriculum}
Today’s simplify everything task COULD take longer than 10 minutes but it doesn’t have to. Today’s task is to purge your curriculum. Like all assignments this month, this could work no matter how your children are educated. Keep reading :). Over the course of homeschooling, you kind of learn what types of things that work […] Read more…
Lent 2015 with Magnificat Lenten Companion 2015 Giveaway!
Every year, it’s the same thing. I get all these great ideas in my head about all these great spiritual practices that I am going to do. All at once. While working. And homeschooling. Because I’m so great at it every other day of the year. Yep. After writing another article, my plan for Lent […] Read more…
Simplify Everything 2015 {Task 11 – Games & Such}
Would you believe a person can get excited about a purge/declutter task? I am! I am having a new (to us) armoire delivered tomorrow and the first thing going into it is… The keepers from our newly purged games! We have soooo many, for both educational and fun, and there are several that I can’t […] Read more…
5 Visual Planning Tools For Your Best Year Ever
Despite having a pretty marginal year from a health standpoint, I really had a pretty good year. My blogging and writing was in an amazing place and I even had my first paid writing gig. Even better though, my relationships were pretty good which was fabulous given that the symptoms of my health problems were […] Read more…
3 Activities for Snow Day Fun
***This article originally appeared in the Winter 2013/2014 issue of Traverse Bay Family Magazine. It is reprinted with permission.*** ; Last winter was a doozy, wasn’t it? It seemed like there were a record number of snow days and several times where there were multiple snow days in a row. While the first snow […] Read more…
Simplify Everything 2015 {Task 10 – Flashcards}
Today’s Simplify Everything Task is something that everyone probably has around, whether your children are in school or are homeschooled. Today, purge your flashcards. I have, I kid you not, an entire diaper wipes case FULL of flashcards. Not games, just flashcards. My kids don’t use flashcards. They don’t like them. If you have […] Read more…
Practicing Detachment for Lent {Book Review}
How is your domestic church doing? When we built our home, I wanted it to be big enough for as many kids as we wanted. Which also means I can fill 2200 square feet of space. Plus a garage. And all that space & the things in it, need to be cleaned & organized. While […] Read more…
Simplify Everything 2015 {Task 9 – Manipulatives}
The theme for the #SimplifyEverything2015 tasks in February is for school related items. Whether you homeschool or your kids are enrolled in public or private school, chances are that you have some of these items in your home. Today’s Simplify Everything 2015 task is to purge your manipulatives. For non-homeschoolers, you may be wondering what […] Read more…