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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. […]
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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.
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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
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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 »
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and wishing you all a blessed New Year! We had a fun 2 months, with 6 birthdays and our usual Christmas traditions(you can read about our Christmas traditions here); except this year with the COVID, we didn’t have our prayer gatherings. But my daughter was at her busiest,
Teaching Lifeskills and Cultivating Work Ethic in Children Read More »
About a year ago, I felt I had all my meals under control, with having to cook only once in 2-3 days. And this was even in the pre-covid era, when we would be hosting several gatherings, and I would be having to cook for a lot of those. More recently, it seems everyone’s appetite
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Being a mom of 9 kids, I am surprised that I am not yet deaf! There is always constant noise, and chitchat, especially now that the kids are getting older. To make it worse, they have always been playing their favorite Christian music station most of the day, after school-time. They used to hear it
Trying to Find ‘Quiet Time’ in the Midst of Chaos Read More »
My Homeschool Organization System After summer cleanout and lesson planning, my next step and final step revolves around getting my homeschool system in place; putting together all the its and bits to create a smooth workflow. I had tried several methods in the past to keep the workflow going. But most of those methods either
Lesson Planning Once I selected or put together curriculum, the next thing I do is lesson planning; or spreading out the lessons over the year. When I started off years ago, I would very meticulously write down the page numbers of all topics to cover that day, into a book, under the respective days. But
Getting Ready for the New Homeschool Year Series- 3 Lesson Planning Read More »