A Blog on Homeschooling, Parenting, Homemaking, and Productivity
Wishing you all a Happy New Year 2024! Though I had written an extensive post months ago about how to live a life of balance, and I can still consider my current life to be more or less ‘balanced’, I had been very busy recently with different needs that I feel it is high time …
You must have been wondering where I disappeared again for the past few months! Well, I did graduate our oldest daughter, Anita, from 12th grade, from our homeschool. As she was diligently taking Dual enrollment college classes at the local community college, she was able to graduate with an Associates Degree in Science, with Highest …
For writing notes, I have always been a paper and pen person in the remote past. I love to physically write, journal, plan, etc on paper. But then of course, with technology, I converted to a ‘70% digital/30% pen and paper’ person. I always loved the feel of hand- writing, but at the same time very much …
My New Favorite Way to Write Notes- Goodnotes App! Read More »
Our homeschool has looked different over the years. When all our kids were smaller, we used to do a lot of Family Learning together. I cherish those times, and kids actually did learn a lot. It was fun to teach all the kids together at the same time. But as the years went by, and …
How to incorporate Family Learning Time into your homeschool. Read More »
With COVID slowly on the decline, hoping all of you are are doing well and slowly transitioning back into a normal life, after such a long break. Thanking God for His continued loving protection. This year, we have a new driver in the house! Our oldest, now 11th grade, started driving few months back. So …
This past week, we had an interesting week here in Houston, with Hurricane Nicholas coming through. Thank God we were all safe and sound, but we woke up to see our neighbour’s tree uprooted and ending up in our backyard! The kids had a fun time around the tree, gathering acorns, and studying its anatomy. …
Hope you all are enjoying the summer break, as well as getting ready for the new academic year! I always find it inspirational to look up ideas for homeschool rooms, and organisation. So, in this post, I was going to do a tour of our homeschool room, hoping to provide some inspiration along the way. …
Every year, we usually make several mini- vacation trips throughout the year. Most years we make 2-3 stay-over trips within a 5-7 hour distance, and almost always one long trip annually, usually out of state. This year, we went to Colorado, and we have couple of trips lined up for the near future. In this …
Couple of weeks back, we took a 10 day vacation to go for a skiing trip to Colorado. Ever since we moved to Houston from Pennsylvania, our oldest kids were complaining about not having snow, so we decided that this year we will choose a snow-filled vacation spot; and to make it even more exciting, …
A testimony of God’s faithfulness-Our skiing trip to Colorado Read More »
(This blogpost, I’m sharing an article I had written for the souvenir magazine for the National Syro-Malabar Catholics Convention, 2019, hosted in Houston.) Parenting in the 21st century is way different than it was a century ago. I remember how my parents and grandparents talked about their childhood, when they would be hanging out with …
Parenting in the 21st Century- Struggles and Possibilities Read More »