by Classic Housewife

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Our School

Occupying Toddlers During School Time

If you’re homeschooling with littles underfoot, one question you often get asked (and ask yourself) is “what do you do with the littles while you’re schooling the olders?” Obviously there are many answers and not a one size fits all answer for everybody. The things we have done have varied with the different personalities and temperaments of each child, with their age and abilities, and so on. For a long …

Making Home

WFMW: Yoplait Fat Free Plain Yogurt

You think I’m kidding, I’m not! A couple of years ago I weaned my family off the sugar and food coloring abundant dessertified forms of yogurt available on the store shelves. I say “weaned”.. truth is I just stopped buying it. Since then (except on rare occasions) we’ve only bought the large tubs of plain yogurt. We’ve even made our own! It wasn’t hard, the kids made the switch easily. …

Making Home

Working Around the Room

The biggest thing working for me this week is sending the kids to Grandma’s house for the week! No. Seriously. And while they are gone I am CLEANING, CLEANING, CLEANING. Which leads to my other thing that works for me: Working around the room. When the room is just a MESS and you don’t really know where to start or don’t really even want to start… pick a corner and …