Hopefully, we’ve gotten our up tree by now and have a good start on the Holiday preparations and most importantly … not stressing!
Have you gotten started on your Holiday Prep? If not, don’t worry because you still have plenty of time, but don’t procrastinate any longer!
Continue reading “Start Your Holiday Prep: Week 12 Guide”
Have you gotten started on your Holiday Prep? If not, don’t worry because you still have plenty of time, but don’t procrastinate any longer!
Continue reading “Start Your Holiday Prep: Week 9 Guide”
Have you gotten started on your Holiday Prep? If not, don’t worry because you still have plenty of time, but don’t procrastinate any longer!
Continue reading “Start Your Holiday Prep: Week 8 Guide”
The next two weeks, we really need to start gathering our ideas and materials for upcoming holidays… this is something I have done for over a decade to keep from feeling so rushed and frantic before the holidays. We still have those last-minute things that pop up, but everything runs pretty smoothly for the most part.
I really wish I had developed this system a LONG TIME AGO! I will post every week to help keep myself on track and maybe help others also… who knows, maybe I can try to do a quick video about these on YouTube as well!
Here are the links for the whole series:
We are working on weeks 1&2 right now, and so can you! I’ll even try to create a printable for each week to make things a little easier!
Getting Ready for the Holidays Weeks 1 & 2
You can also print out the Event Planning Guide or the Planning Notebook under the Printable Library Tab to help you get started with your plans!
Be sure to leave some of your holiday plans and ideas in the comment section below!
God Bless!
It’s that time of year again for us… time to get the next school year planned out. We technically finished up our 2024-2025 school year before Easter but I’ve been busy with the garden and such so I am just now getting around to making our new schedule.
It is always SO TEMPTING to take a few months off to just focus on this house but I know from past experience that this doesn’t go well and that it takes FOREVER to get a couple of the kids back into the school routine. You can read more about last year’s curriculum and routines HERE.
Having a little extra wiggle room in our schedule means that we can take off more time around the holidays and I can take a week off for new grandbabies too! We also love taking the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas to just reflect on the reason for the season and it gives us time to do fun things with the family too.
Last year we switched to more of a Charlotte Mason-style approach and it was GREAT for the most part. We still have a couple of kids who just hate anything to do with math so that’s been a little challenging but we’re making progress. We’ve also really enjoyed using some of the FREE courses with Under the Home Homeschool.
A couple of the kiddos went with one of their big sisters and husband for the weekend so the house was surprisingly quiet… I used the time to sit down and get our new year planned out and organized. We will have an ‘official’ kindergartner this year too… sobbing quietly to myself… that means a little extra planning to include her but she already sits with us during school so it shouldn’t be too much of a transition.
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