Welcome friends, I’m Steph
- happy wife and mom of 4 - I create content about homemaking, intentional living, food from scratch, and life on the farm (while also renovating our 1700's home). Welcome here.
I hope the content you find here inspires, encourages, and helps you “find the golden” in every hour (season) of your life.
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Im homeschooling 2 kids a second grader and a first grader soon I'll add a prek. Science and social studies we have been doing until studies and i love them! We are keeping them short 2-3 weeks per topic but its the best part of my day🤣🤣
I save my Christmas tree and put clippings in a mason jar with vinegar. I also do that with spent orange, lemon and limes. My husband doesn’t like vinegar smell so I try to clean when he is at work
I just found your channel and notice you get a ton of clothing each month. Is this a sponsored company or do you just enjoy shopping? Please don’t be offended by my comment. Im just not into fashion and noticed you are very passionate about it.
We will be using the Draw Write Now! program for drawing and copy work. It has cute pictures and involves copy work. They have cursive ones too.
Homeschool mom of three here! 🙋🏼♀️ Our current favorites are Story of the World for Medieval History and Simple Studies Burgess Birds, Animals and Seashore for Science. Charlotte Mason - gentle, sweet, reading aloud and narration 💛
Love your videos. You’re such an inspiration ❤ Greetings from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
we absolutely LOVED Our 50 States!! Such a great course. I highly recommend it. I've been homeschooling for many years and am a homeschool graduate myself! My oldest is now in college and my youngest is going in to 3rd grade!
It's great to see women wearing cross-back aprons to work. I find it good that this kind of clothes are coming black in fashion. Me too, although I am a man, I like wearing such aprons.
I have 4 children. 3 in lessons. 3rd, 5th, and 7th grade. Headed into the 4th year homeschooling. I do Good and Beautiful language arts. I did BJU math. Thinking of changing to Teaching Textbooks. I'm right where you are. Looking for something that helps me out. I felt busy trying to help them all.
Have you heard of abeka? It’s a Christian curriculum!
Invest in a walk in fridge/freezer
Omg you have a baby at the same time 😮
Those tomatoes are so red! Stunning!
Oh yes please - I love old houses and would love to see, even if it isnt finished ❤
Love your channel - BTW Sabbath is Saturday not Sunday? Sunday is the first day of the week not Saturday which is the Seventh Day, for whatever its worth.
New suscriber.. Love watching channel truly blessed❤
I was excited to see you have our 50 first states!🥳 Im almost certain that’s what we’ll use for social studies this coming year as well. My son really enjoyed Notgrass our star spangled story last year. :) we’ll be using Math with confidence which I LOVE!! Along with logic of English and Apologia (science).
I am a mom of five! This will be my first year homeschooling! And I just went with connections academy because all these books and planing intimidated me! But I think next year I would like to do it all myself.
@thisgoldenhour I too have 5 children! I’ve been homeschooling now for 18 years. My youngest starts his senior year in the fall. You are DEFINITELY right when you say it goes by so fast!! We also, started out using Abeka, some Bob Jones, ALWAYS Saxon math, but about 6 years ago found the Robinson curriculum and really love it!
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That homeschool coop sounds like a dream. You truly are giving your kids a magical childhood and I hope to do the same.
I have two under two so far! We are going to homeschool. I feel so overwhelmed even with the thought, because i was never schooled at home or anything, whatever i learn in work or default is almost all I've got; but homeschooling also kind of excites me because in real time i will get to learn all the things i never did along with my children and be amazed and facinated together.
We are in our fifth year of homeschool. Both kiddos went to public school through most of elementary and I also worked at their school. We've used a mixture of mammoth math, Master Books, Khan Academy, and T4L. I know I have forgotten something...😂 I probably use an approach that is a mixture of Charlotte Mason/Classical. We have switched to year round so our book part if the day doesn't take all day. We spend a lot of time involving the kids in things around the home and property daily. Their science course last year had virtual labs, but I was able to create an interactive lab with our seed starting station indoors. Our kiddos have always helped with all the sowing, but with this they they have tracked their Jalapeños from seed to harvest. They will be adding a final amendment to the document as we will also process the fruits in the next month or so. Overall it has gone really well. They're highschoolers now, and growing every single day ❤
I missed it! Where did you go grocery shopping? It sounds delightful! A large family momma's dream! Just pay by the pound.
Sea Wicks Tomato Garden candle. Get it! Never smelled anything like it but it smells JUST like fresh tomato plants!
This will be our 10th year homeschooling. Six kiddos, four different grades. We love The Good and the Beautiful, but don't use it solely. We incorporate other "brands" as well, depending on subjects.
My oldest is 13 and has done teaching textbooks for years now and she loves math and is really good at it. Highly recommend TT.
Great video. I homeschooled all four of my children and now they’re all adults with children of their own. I used A-Beka videos for my three boys when they were in high school. You mentioned that you wanted to incorporate music classes into your curriculum this year. I put all four of mine into music classes and that was part of their curriculum. It paid off. I remember doing a co-op class with a few ladies and it was fun and rewarding. One of the classes I did was an etiquette class with my daughter and after we finished the class we had a tea with the girls and their moms. It was so much fun. Brings back so many memories as I’m typing this message. Thanks again for sharing this video. God bless you and your beautiful family.
My children are adults now. But i would have loved to have been able to homeschooled them.
Homeschooling mom of 7 for 20 years now. Can't believe it! Only 2 left. One favorite curriculum... for grades 5-8 science (my least favorite subject so this says something) was God's Design by Answers in Genesis. Such awesome evidence in creation pointing to God and His Word.
I am a homeschool mom of 7. They are currently going into 10th, 7th, 6th, 3rd, 1st, and a 2 year old tagging along and keeping us on our toes. 😂
Loved this! Please let us know how you like Teaching Textbooks. 😊 Much love from a homeschooling mama of six 🤍
Homeschool mama here! 🫶🏼 And I was homeschooled myself! I have 4 children & my eldest just turned 5 & is ready to start formal lessons. We use Gentle & Classical Nature study, Math U See, & Sing, Spell, Read, and Write for LA. We do a morning basket & I run a Charlotte Mason co-op that is once a week. Homeschooling is so much fun!!
Just love scrolling through these comments knowing so many mamas are homeschooling and have multiple children ❤ makes my heart so happy 😊
Im in my last 2 years of homeschooling and I’d do it all over again. Having your children around and introducing them to all the wonders of life, encouraging them in the necessary mundane has been a wonderful season! We used TT for geometry and Algebra 2. It fulfilled the requirement and didn’t put them back by any means. You’ll hear lots of negative along with the positive. All of mine will have gone into higher mathematics beyond highschool and score very well. Keep in mind whatever they don’t learn or don’t grasped can be learned in a snap as they grow older. You are teaching them to learn. If they know how to enjoy learning they’ll be fully capable of filling in missing gaps that all programs have.
I always love seeing what other homeschool families are doing! We are a homeschooling family - I have 4 kiddos, ages 7, 5, 3, and 7 months. We use Gather Round and I love it because it’s Christian based and it’s family style learning, so we can sit down and do our lessons together! 🙌❤️
I am wondering what foreign languages you teach your children at homeschool. My kids speak English, French, Russian, and Spanish. I believe that knowing and speaking many languages, as well as knowledge of business administration and investing, should be an integral part of modern education.
As a teacher for over 25 years, I can tell you (with academics) read, read, and read some more. You read to them-they read to you-they read independently-it matters. Their vocabulary, their understanding of verbiage, their comprehension, their ability to communicate is enhanced through reading.
@cynthiawhitcomb 1780, I Totally agree with you. I am a Retired Elementary Teacher after, being blessed to have taught children in Kindergarten through Second Grade, for the past 30 years. Again, you are Totally correct...."read, read, and read some more." 😊 It Truly makes a Huge difference.
Thank you so much. Your videos are so beautiful and so inspiring! BLESSINGS TO YOU!
Yes! Teaching textbooks was a great addition this past year for my 9th grader. I hope you love it as much as we did.
I love your little ones blonde hair, Beautiful
We've been homeschooling for 10 years now. Love learning (sometimes again, sometimes new) along with my kids. So, so grateful for this opportunity that God has given us to homeschool our kids. ❤
I love master books for my son and TGATB for my daughter for LA. Math we use master books too, i like it because it’s Charlotte Mason based. Super simple and straight to the point!! Teaching textbooks for my son who is in 3rd grade for math!
Homeschool Mom here! We have 2 boys, and we enjoy Essentials in Writing, Teaching Textbooks, BJU Press, and some Gather Round Units!
We have used CLE till now (finished 4th grade) really gets the job done well and so affordable, however we wanted sometnjgn more coloful this year so I have pulled alot from Generations curriculum, it’s newer on the market , it’s BEAUTIFUL. We are doing masterbooks, berean boulders for science, and LLATL.. see what we end up liking. My first grader will stick with CLE as the Learnign to read program is awesome from them.
Her nails are done, hair is coloured, make up is on, there is obviously plenty of me time.
Homeschool mom of 4 😊 this year I’ll have a 1st, 3rd & 5th grader and a 3 year old helper 😂 we’re using Abeka, TGATB and Notgrass
Sobbed, I’m telling you, sobbed. You beautiful soul and your beautiful family.
Homeschool mama here- our kids are 14, 11, 9, 6, and 2. I had our 11 and 9 year olds use teaching textbooks this past school year- it was great in the beginning but once they didn’t understand the video lesson and needed my help towards the end of the year I found it not as convenient at TGTB because the lessons they needed help with I couldn’t reference right away. As you know a toddler is pretty demanding with time so I had hoped TT would help, I am going back to TGTB this coming year. I love hearing what everyone is using and why.
Homeschool mama of four here. Our oldest graduated last year and our youngest starts this year 😆 We really like the concept of doing school all together so we’re using Gather Round curriculum for our core curriculum - it encompasses all subjects except math. I love that we can do it together regardless of age. For math, we use teaching textbooks. 💕