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We are avid readers in our house. It is rare to walk in to our living room and not see someone curled up with a book. I have decided to add a weekly feature, Weekend Reading, to my blog. I will post book reviews/suggestions on Saturday or Sunday each week so we can share our…
post includes affiliate links I’ve owned my Instant Pot for almost five months now. I’ve moved from This is Kind of Cool to I Can’t Like Without This Appliance. If you want to read my actual review, you can go check it out on Large Family Reviews. If you just want to know why I…
Timberdoodle provided me with this Extraordinaires Design Studio Pro to review in exchange for my honest opinion; I received no other compensation for this post. Is creativity important to you and your kids? It is to us. Why creativity? Because creativity breeds innovation and flexible thinking. We spent fifteen years homeschooling our children so they…
The Adventures of Pan…and Apollo. It’s been a long year of kindergarten for Apollo. Back when we enrolled him in the fall, we were much more concerned about social skills, anxiety, and eating than academics. As I recently posted, Apollo has grown by leaps and bounds in those areas. He is so much more confident…
Large Family Game Night. Does that conjure up images of a relaxed atmosphere, smiling children and home-baked goods? If so, you haven’t been to a family game night at our house. My children are…ahem…a wee bit competitive when it comes to games. Family game night at our house often resembles a mix between the Hunger…
My kids are readers. They love to read, to be read to…they treat a trip to the library like some kids treat a trip to the toy store. I know for a fact that if I take my kids to the library I will have at least an hour of quiet time when we get…
Have you ever taken your large family on a road trip? Does the very idea frighten you? Every fall Greg and Merriann take their family on a homeschool road trip. This year one of their favorite stops was The Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. If you have never heard of it, The Ark Encounter is an amazing full-size replica…
Thank you, Abrams Books for sending us these! Post contains affiliate links. The Tinyville Town books come in both board books and the traditional picture book style. We love books in our house. Picture books, novels, non-fiction. Code books and graphic novels. My kids (and my husband and I) love to read. The Tinyville Town books by…
Post contains affiliate links. This is actually what I’m watching, but I don’t have a graphic for that yet. It’s been quiet around here. Well, on the blog, not in my house or our home here in the Pacific Northwest. First the windstorms robbed us of electricity…then once we had lights again, our internet wasn’t…
I received my copy of Reading Buddy free in exchange for an honest review. Because I love it so much, I am now an affiliate. Reading Buddy I have had a few reluctant readers in my career as a homeschool (and now public school) mom. Right now my reluctant reader is Avi. At age 10, she…