Keeping It Simple

The need to find (re-find) our dinner groove has been going on for a while. For Mother's Day, I requested an afternoon at home to cook! Not just me- for the family to make and dine on a bonafide, sit down, lick your fingers good meal. I went to Patty's blog to pick up some inspiration. Her What's For Dinner Sunday posts always make me want to cook! So there you have it-  Mac and Cheese    Roasted Broccoli    Sheet Cake Since then, with the May/June craziness of plays, graduations, first communions, weddings, ... and then the summer craziness with Mark starting football that was every.single.day. until 5:00 p.m. plus the 30 minutes to an hour it takes to drive home (we do carpool thank goodness!), to now with the beginning of the school year craziness full with outside classes, hosted co op classes, football every.single.day. until 6 with the same stinkin' drive, we have been at loss on how to get this dinner thing off the ground. I guess it must ha...

on our homeschooling journey. Months ago, probably when lots of end of the year homeschool year posts were going around, I took a second to write this down. It sat in drafts for while, but thought I share these scattered thoughts! :)  If you have read this blog, you will have heard some of this already in various posts. Of course, these are my thoughts about my homeschooling experience. Although I use the pronoun "you", I realize that not every item will be true for every homeschool. #1- Stuff will swallow you whole. Keep a minimum of books and supplies on hand. #2- Go for quality over quantity every time (in time and materials). #3- Real books beat textbooks hands down. I appreciate the real books I have invested in (and often find great bargains at used curriculum sales) but most textbooks got/get less use. #4- If you do use textbooks, you don't have to beat your children with them (metaphorically speaking). I use them as a resource or we read them toget...