This post contains affiliate links.  I’ve always been a big supporter of making homeschooling accessible to everyone who wants to do it. And as the financial manager of a one income family, I try to educate my kids as frugally as possible, but lately I’ve been really thinking about how we could do it EVEN CHEAPER. One day I sat down and asked myself, “is it possible to homeschool for FREE?” […]

For 2016, all Indiana students and their families now have access to over 5,000 (and counting) e-books via myON Books. This is part of the Indiana Department of Education’s Hoosier Family of Readers initiative. All of the information you need can be found at IDOE’s website, but basically here’s how it works: Sign in with the information provided on IDOE’s site (you do not need to give any personal information). […]

I love unit studies, and one of my fears with using a pre-planned, five day per week curriculum was that we would lose our time to delve into fun and fascinating subjects that weren’t on the pre-approved list. Turns out Homeschool Legacy felt my concern and offers a product to help me, and so many like me, out. Once-a-Week Unit Studies are designed with busy homeschool families in mind. Yes, […]

I. Love. Money. I don’t mean that in a Scrooge McDuck kind of way, where I spend my days stacking my gold coins (though it’s possible that if I had gold coins, I would do that). I mean, I understand money in a way most things don’t make sense to me. I unexpectedly found myself pursuing a business degree in college. Never in a million years would I have thought […]

We are all things Civil War at our home right now, and that means we’re knee-deep in books about Abraham Lincoln. Now, while one of my personal favorites is Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, that might not be appropriate for the younger members of the household. So we’re compiling a list of the most fun and family-friendly books to help learn about the life of our 16th president. Who Was Abraham […]

Today, my friend Crystal is here to tell us more about another education option, Hoosier Academy hybrid school.  Trying to figure out what we would do for my five-year-old’s kindergarten year was one of the most stressful things I’ve been through as a mom. I knew that our local public school was not a good fit for us, and private school was not in our budget. I was 100% sold on […]

This year, I started Big Boy on cursive. We’d tried last year, when he was in third-ish grade, but he couldn’t seem to grasp it. This year he’s doing fine with it, but it had me thinking maybe boys just do these things later than girls. So when Little Man with his “anything you can do, I can do” attitude asked me if he could learn cursive, I was a […]

In our house, we love to celebrate. Holidays are kind of my thing. And I especially love celebrating the smaller holidays. Give me Dr. Seuss’ birthday or Presidents Day over Thanksgiving any time. But my very favorite of all the days? Pi Day. Pi Day is a nerd’s dream. While I try to claim myself as a liberal arts person, the fact is me + numbers = true love. We […]