Welcome to our little corner of the world. I'm Ticia, and I'll be guiding you on this journey here, so let me tell you a little bit about myself and our life here. I'm a former elementary teacher who decided to stay home with her twins when they were born, daycare would not have made sense on a teacher's salary, besides I'd always wanted to stay home with my kids. When I was teaching I always loved finding hands-on ways to teach a concept, and that continued with my kids when I … keep on reading
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May 2020 homeschooling in review
Well, I'm starting this post on May 14, which means I'm not doing quite so well at this weekly updating thing. But the days kind of all smash together after awhile, and it can be tricky to remember what day is what. As I finish this up on May 31,
Quacks of Quedlinburg game review
Quarantine is loosening up here in Texas, and so our usual gaming friends gave us a call and said, "How about a board game night?" We, of course, said, "Yes, what are we playing?" They had gotten a few new games since we'd last played together, a
Nebraska state study
Heading into our Nebraska State Study I knew Nebraska was the cornhusker state. Aaaaaannnnnd that's it. I went into research mode and found some cool events and fun ideas. Then I checked my library and found half a dozen or so books, and put together
Ready Player One book club
I first heard about Ready Player one from a podcast I listen to. They do a monthly book club, where the two hosts listen to a book on Audible, and then they discuss the book. They LOVED the book. They had this amazing discussion about the book and a
Pandemic and Pop Culture Lesson
Every night, when I'm not reading my new book until my book literally falls out of my hands as I fall asleep, I read comics. At first, as I read through the comics you saw nothing of the current Pandemic. Then slowly they started to trickle in. Of
Sunday School and Family Discipleship
Job lesson for kids
I had this post all written up, it was gorgeous, then I had to leave for an appointment, and near as I can figure my computer ate my Job lesson for kids post. Ate it right up, because when I sat down later to write the final thoughts, it was nowhere to be found, so […]
Creating a war room to change the world
Today is one of my very rare guest posts, and this one is super special because my daughter, Princess is writing it. I’ve been teaching her homeschool Bible since she was an itty bitty baby, and now at 9 she’s got a pretty firm grasp of what she believes, and recently she created a war […]
Homeschool History
Why is history important?
The other day I was talking with Jeff about some of our recent homeschool history lessons from Mystery of History 2*, and how I was sure you could draw an easy line from the Reformation to the American Revolution. He agreed with that quite easily, and it led me to start thinking about other events […]
getting started with Heritage History CDs
I just got my very first Heritage History CD in the mail. I would like to first mention my restraint at not tearing it open in the car. A review will be forthcoming, but I figured someone else besides me has to wonder how things like this work, so I’m putting together a super simple […]