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Weekend reading: August 29, 2015

From Instagram: It was a tic-tac-toe pancakes for breakfast kind of morning to kick off our new school year!

We officially kicked off the new school year with tic-tac-toe pancakes and school pictures on Thursday and our first day of Essentials yesterday. The kids were so excited about the start of CC that they finished their morning checklists and were ready to go at 9:30am even though we don’t need to be there until lunch begins at noon, so we made a pitstop at the park on our way (something we never ever get to do!).

It was a great start to the school year, and I’m so excited to be back into our regular routine…for a couple of months, at least!

What I’m reading: Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum and Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World by Emily P. Freeman

What I’m thinking about:

{Follow my personal Facebook feed for the things I’m thinking about and talking about all week!}

For homeschoolers

5 Simple Back-to-School Hacks for Homeschoolers | No Sidebar


5 Things Not to Worry About this School Year | Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers

A life well lived

Someday | The Minimalists


Can We Please Stop Saying This to Each Other? | Smarter Each Day


Overrated vs. Underrated: Common Beliefs We Get Wrong | James Clear

Love your neighbor

What Would You Have Done in Nazi Germany | Penelope Trunk


#BlackLivesMatter? | Benjamin Watson

Have a great weekend!

P.S. As part of the Live course in September, we’re talking about how being a lifelong learner enhances your life, and Heidi’s words are just delightful. I hope you’ll join us!

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The “more” of a big family

“It gets easier the more kids you have.”

I’ve heard this often from moms of big families—and even said it myself a few times—but I’m pretty sure we’re all just fooling ourselves.

Or maybe it’s just that I’m at capacity (even as we wait for the arrival of #6!) and feeling it.

Either way, while it’s true that some things do get easier—they have each other to play with, so I’m not constantly entertaining them; the older girls are old enough that they’re actually really big helpers; and many things become automated when you have to do them 4, 5 or 6 times anyway—there are some areas where more kids are just, well, more.

As I’ve been evaluating things over the past 3 or 4 months to see how we can reduce the chaos in our home, a few things have become obvious to me…

1. When there are 8 people in your family, there might not be 8 times as much stuff…but there’s still a lot of stuff. Everybody needs a decent amount of clothes (and even if we all participated in Project 333, it would mean 33 items times 8 people for a total of  264 items of clothing, not including underwear, pajamas or loungewear!). The kids each need school supplies and shoes and treasures of their own that just can’t be shared.

2. A normal amount of arguing and testing the limits from each of them can feel like a whole lot of disciplining and enforcing the rules. I often have to remind myself to view each “incident” separately rather than viewing them as an amalgamation of all four girls!

3. The noise level is just…well, deafening sometimes. Maybe this isn’t true in “sweet” families, but for our “spicy” family, there is constant noise. And it’s often loud noise. Many times our girls sound like a full classroom of kids or an entire choir just by themselves, and that’s even without Jackson chiming in. At any given moment on any given day it’s not unusual to hear 5 or 6 different voices all talking at once. (Which is just perfect for this introvert, as you can imagine!)

4. Preparing meals no longer requires a single recipe with leftovers for lunch the next day…the recipes now have to be doubled and sometimes even tripled just to get us through dinnertime.

5. If everybody is fairly neat but just a little bit messy, our house still ends up as a disaster zone by the end of the day. And when they’re not neat…well, it’s a disaster by breakfast and I’m tempted to just burn the house down and start over!

6. Visiting a store together means constant reminders to not touch, stop quacking, walk in a line not a mob, be respectful of other people, keep up, slow down and “shhhh!” I’m sure I’d do some of that with just 1 or 2 kids, but when I have them all with me, they all need their own reminders, so it’s constant.

7. When we share viruses, it can feel like we’re sick for weeks as one person passes it to the next and then the next and then the next. And that means constant interrupted sleep and laundry (for the stomach flu) as well.

8. The interruptions are constant. I’ve already told Sean that in our next house I need a wall calendar and chalkboard in the kitchen because I get asked “What’s for dinner?” (and every other meal) or “Are we going anywhere today?” at least 4 times every single day. On school days, there is a constant stream of books being dropped off for me to review, questions being asked, and help being requested. Just when I think I get one or two of them settled, someone else needs help.

9. Leaving somewhere to come home is literally like herding cats. Just as I get two or three of them ready to go, I realize that the others have wandered off. Despite my commands to “Stay put!”, by the time I gather the others, someone else has gotten distracted and left the loading zone, and I have to go searching for that one. We often make abrupt exits because when I do have them all in one place, I’m not letting a single one out of my sight!

There’s also more of the good stuff, of course—laughter and snuggles and “I love yous” and aha moments—and most of the time the good outweighs the hard.

But if you ever hear me tell someone it gets easier the more kids you have, feel free to burst out laughing and call me a liar for not sharing the whole truth!

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Curriculum for the 2015-2016 homeschool year

Our first official day of the new school year is Thursday. Of course, for us that just means a fun day with homemade pancakes (I think I’m going to try tic-tac-toe pancakes this year!), front porch pictures, annual interviews, and ice cream for dinner.

Because we do school all year long, I’m constantly tweaking, and we won’t be making a lot of changes to our curriculum with the start of a new school year. We will, however, be adding Classical Conversations memory work and Essentials assignments back in, and I’m going to try switching the big girls from Teaching Textbooks to Saxon when they finish Teaching Textbooks 5 at the end of this month since they’re working out of their textbook and not using the computer program anyway!

I also switched our kindergartener to Explode the Code online. I haven’t been super consistent with her school time, which is okay because we do two years of kindergarten with our fall babies anyway, but this year that consistency is going to be more important, and Explode the Code online helps her work a little more independently (and stay motivated to want to do it!).

The addition of spiral notebooks to our routine earlier this summer has made me feel like we’ve really found our groove, so I’m not messing with a system that works!

Language Arts

kindergartener:

Explode the Code online

2nd grader:

Explode the Code
First Language Lessons (Level 2)
Rhythm of Handwriting Cursive
Spelling Plus (using Spelling City for practice and testing)

4th & 5th graders:

CC Essentials (for English grammar and writing)
Spelling Plus (using Spelling City for practice and testing)

Math

kindergartener:

Singapore Earlybird Math, B

1st grader:

Teaching Textbooks, 3rd grade

3rd & 4th grader:

Saxon 5/4

History

2nd, 4th & 5th graders:

Story of the World (Volume 4)

everybody:

CC memory work and related books

Science

2nd & 4th graders:

Apologia Land Animals

5th grader: 

Apologia Chemistry

everybody:

CC memory work and related books

Geography

4th & 5th graders:

The Complete Book of Maps and Geography
map games on the computer

Languages

Language learning was one of the things we dropped last year when we were having trouble with our internet connection supporting my work time online, but the big girls are itching to get back to DuoLingo, so we’ll probably add that back in in a month or two after we figure out the Essentials work load.

Bible

2nd, 4th & 5th graders:

Daily Bible readings and SOAPing in their journals

Extracurriculars

2nd, 4th & 5th graders:

KidZone Worship team at church

everybody:

biweekly piano lessons
poetry tea times (with and without tea)
books, books & more books

For the Toddler

For the first time, I have a toddler with four school-age kids. The girls are so close in age that it was a lot easier to juggle the needs of a 1st grader and toddler, but now we need to make sure we’re keeping Jack occupied while giving the girls the attention and time they need for school work. And with Sean starting a painting business, this juggling act is getting a little bit tougher.

I’m in the process of setting up toddler trays and activity boxes for him, and I’m hoping that by regularly rotating those, we’ll be able to keep him out of trouble most of the time!

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One thing I know for sure is that we’ll continue to tweak and adjust during the school year, but for now it feels good to have a stress-free plan in place!

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Weekend reading: August 22, 2015

From Instagram: It feels like fall this morning – chilly and crisp. I love it!#wildwonderfulwestvirginia

I am working hard to be a person who lives in the present rather than dreaming of the next thing (which isn’t always easy for me because I’m naturally a planner and a dreamer!), but the crisp air this morning means I can finally get excited about fall and all it holds: pumpkins, crisp air, changing leaves, and a new baby!

In the past, fall has been our busy season, but after the craziness of this summer, we’re looking forward to a more relaxed schedule to enjoy some of our favorite fall activities (like apple picking, a trip to the farmer’s market, hiking in the fall foliage…).

What I’m reading: Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (I’m going to finish it this time!)

What I’m thinking about:

{Follow my personal Facebook feed for the things I’m thinking about and talking about all week!}

In the news

How Then Should We Respond (to the Falling of Josh Duggar)? | We are THAT Family


On Abortion and When You Have Hidden Hollow Places | Amber C Haines

Embrace your life

What’s your unfair advantage? (and how I read so much) | Modern Mrs. Darcy


Mindy Kaling’s Guide to Killer Confidence | Glamour

Raising adults

The Coddling of the American Mind | The Atlantic


James Harrison makes sons give back participation trophies | Sporting News


Dear Teenager, Sorry About The Toddler And The Baby | Scary Mommy

Have a great weekend!

Weekend reading: August 22, 2015

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An updated master bedroom {modular home house tour}

Eight years ago we built our home on a little slice of heaven in West Virginia. It was delivered in four boxes after being built in a factory, and a team of workers bolted the pieces together, added siding, and began the process of finishing the inside.

Today, no one would guess that it was a modular home because we’ve made it our own.

Five years ago, I did a home tour series with pictures of our house.

Today, Sean’s style has changed from modern to more cottage-y. (He is a talented designer and craftsman, so I’m happy to let him make decisions about our home…they always turn out beautifully.)

We also have quite a few unfinished projects throughout our home because he tends to get excited about a new project and bounce from one to another (don’t we all?), but—in anticipation of either selling our house in two years for our big trip or staying here if things don’t work out—he’s working room by room to finish each one once and for all.

I’m hoping to share regular updates as he completes projects, although who knows how much progress he’ll make after Baby Lucas is born or after he starts his interior paint and trim work business full time in the New Year.

But for now, here’s the master bedroom…

For the first time in our entire marriage, we have a “real” master bedroom—the kind of room that feels like a retreat and that is off limits to the dog and the girls (although both babies will sleep in here for now!).

We bought a proper bed frame, added proper bedding, and it really does feel like a sanctuary every time I walk in. I think we’re adulting here, people!

You can’t really tell in photos, but the walls above the wainscoting are actually a very, very pale blue (Silent Delight by Olympic Icon).

BED FRAME :: Coleman Furniture // BEDDING :: Home Goods // NIGHTSTANDS :: Ikea  // TABLE LAMPS :: Home Goods // FLOOR VASES :: Home Goods

The table lamps are quite possibly my favorite addition. I love walking into the room at night to find that Sean’s switched on my lamp already. It gives the room such a beautiful glow and sometimes I just want to crawl in bed to write in a notebook or make my list for the next day because it’s so cozy!

Our room is not big, so at the foot of the bed there is just enough room to walk through and to get in the wardrobes. But I love having a king bed so much, and I actually really like that the room feels full and cozy (but not cluttered) rather than open with a lot of extra space.

One of the big changes we made—in addition to the wainscoting and grid on the back wall—was to paint our barn doors white. I honestly wasn’t sure about this ahead of time, but I love it so much. It makes the room feel even brighter (which I wouldn’t have thought was possible!), and it just really fits the look of the room.

I love having a finished bedroom, and I love how it turned out. I wish Sean could have unlimited time to work on the rest of the house because I’m so excited to see what he does to the other rooms!

An updated master bedroom {modular home house tour}

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KonMari’ing the baby clothes…and fitting three people’s clothes in a tiny space

Several months ago, I shared that our house had been feeling out of control and chaotic. It wasn’t any one thing but that the things that had worked when we had a bunch of tinies just weren’t working anymore.

Over the summer, we’ve been really focused on a few things: 1) finishing house projects (more on this soon), 2) revamping our chore assignments (also coming soon), and 3) decluttering and organizing once again.

At the time, I started reading Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, but I honestly haven’t finished because I was feeling very discouraged that some of her advice just wasn’t applicable to a family of our size (organize once and never again?!), but after reading Anne’s post about applying these principles to family life, I’ve picked it back up.

One area that has been bugging me for months is the wardrobe in our room. Several months ago we turned the nursery (which is really the master closet) into my office since Jackson sleeps in our bed anyway. At the time, it was no big deal to move his clothes into my side of the clothes wardrobe. But our surprise baby threw a loop into that plan.

At this point, I just don’t want to give up my office. It’s so nice to have the space on the main level with a door for working, and that seems like it’s going to be even more important when I’m juggling a new baby with my job.

Instead, I was determined to get all of the baby stuff into the same wardrobe that Jackson and I were already using. (Sean has his regular clothes plus work/painting clothes, so it’s not as easy for him to give up space on his side.)

Enter KonMari folding.

I spent a couple of weeks trying to figure out how exactly to fold tiny baby clothes this way, even asking for advice on Facebook, before it finally hit me while watching this video that Kara shared that my problem was the undefined space of our wire baskets.

Instead of just folding things in the open space of the basket, I decided to try folding them inside the rectangular canvas baskets we use for socks, and that made all of the difference.

However, I was determined not to buy any new organizing things for this project (we’re planning to head out on the road in an RV in two years, and I really only want to put furniture in storage, so we’re trying not to buy anything new that we’ll just be getting rid of!). Instead, I transferred the folded groups out of the sock baskets and into the main baskets, using the sides of the sock baskets for support.

This ended up working really well, and as the drawer got fuller, the clothes were able to stay standing on their own.

In the end, here’s how I made it all work:

One of the baskets in the top of closet holds Jackson’s fall/winter clothes (as well as Lucas’ 1st Christmas outfits) because those would not fit in the drawer but I wanted to have them handy for the transitional months. My plan is to slowly rotate those piles, increasing the number of pants and long-sleeve shirts in the main drawer as we get further into the cold months.


The other holds miscellaneous infant things—pacis, slings, nursing pads, etc.

The basket in the main area of the wardrobe holds all of Lucas’ blankets. I’m fairly certain we’ll use most of these because they’re the same set I used with Jackson.


I think technically I should have folded more of my shirts in the drawer since folding takes up less space than hanging, but there simply wasn’t room in the drawers and vertical space was what I had available, so I left those on hangars.


I’m still really interested in the idea of a capsule wardrobe, but the shirts include both summer and fall shirts, maternity and non-maternity because I know I’m not going to want to have to deal with rotating clothes with a newborn in the house, so this buys me a couple of months while I maintain that “squishy belly” look.

All of the drawers are packed tighter than they probably should be, but again…space. It was either pack them in or get rid of clothes that we actually wear/”need”, so I went with packing them in.


I just can’t bring myself to gently fold my socks rather than folding the bands over to hold them together. Thankfully, this is my house rather than Marie Kondo’s, and my socks haven’t revolted from the abuse yet!

The thing I love most about this system—other than the fact that everything actually fit!—is that I can see what we have at a glance. I think it will make it easier to see what we’re not wearing (so we can get rid of those as well), and it will definitely make it easier to find outfits for the boys without just digging through piles.

The thing I’m dreading the most is the next time Jackson discovers the open wardrobe and decides to “helpfully” dump everything into the hamper…and then having to refold it all again!

Have you tried the KonMari folding method for clothes yet?

KonMari’ing the baby clothes…and fitting three people’s clothes in a tiny space

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Favorite fantasy books handwriting sheets for older elementary students

Recently I realized that our oldest daughter was writing her Story of the World chapter summaries in as few words as possible. Because she’s always been an avid writer, this change worried me…and then I realized I was the cause of it!

You see, she has lovely cursive handwriting when she tries, but she tends to scratch out her stories and reports, and I was harping on her to use better handwriting on her summaries. In my defense, I was trying to limit the amount of work the big girls have to do each day by combining handwriting, history and writing, but Andrew Pudewa from IEW says that writing and handwriting and even spelling all use different parts of the brain, so we need to choose one to focus on at a time.

Rather than continuing down this (obviously very wrong) path, I made a deal with her that we wouldn’t worry about the handwriting in her summaries anymore—and I actually have her read them to me rather than reading them myself so I don’t even have to resist the temptation to comment on it!—and she’d do a handwriting sheet each day separately.

In an effort to make handwriting somewhat “fun”, I used quotes from some of her favorite books—Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

Since I was making these for her anyway, I added them to our printables collection as well!

Click here to download the individual handwriting sets, or grab a complete set of more than 400+ printables today.

Favorite fantasy books handwriting sheets for older elementary students

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Weekend reading: August 15, 2015

From Instagram: Because when you do Zoo Atlanta in August at 7 months pregnant, you deserve Dippin’ Dots!

We’re back home from a whirlwind two weeks that’s included more than 40 hours in the car, and while I love a good road trip, I am very much looking forward to no more traveling until Thanksgiving.

This summer has been our busiest in a long time, and while fall is usually one of our busy seasons, the calendar is fairly open starting in September. I can’t wait! Busy with good things is good, but now it’s time to rest before this new baby arrives in just 10 or 11 weeks. (Because he’s been measuring big since 18 weeks and I usually go 1-3 weeks early, we’re thinking he’ll be here in late October!)

What I’m reading: Nothing. This reading slump just won’t quit!

What I’m thinking about:

{Follow my personal Facebook feed for the things I’m thinking about and talking about all week!}

The truth about life

What We Get Wrong About Humility | Relevant Magazine


You Can’t Live As If You Only Had Three Months to Live | The Art of Non-Conformity


Compared to… | Seth’s Blog

Being the parents our kids need

The Example We Set | Becoming Minimalist


Why I Marched My 12 Year Old Into the Police Station | The Chaos and the Clutter


The alternative to controlling my children | The Art of Simple

Realism and homeschooling

I Am Not An Airplane | Amongst Lovely Things


Being outnumbered by babies and toddlers {The hardest part of Sarah’s homeschool year} | Simple Homeschool

Have a great weekend!

Weekend reading: August 15, 2015

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On turning 8 and birthday adventures

As I type, my mom, {almost} 8-year-old daughter and I are on our way back to North Carolina from Georgia, where we spent the last three days on a birthday adventure.

When our oldest was getting ready to turn 8, I knew we wanted to use the opportunity to make a few milestones special—things like buying her a bra and having our first formal birds-and-bees conversation (in addition to the casual ones that we try to make a part of everyday life}.

That year, we flew to Florida to spend a week with my grandmother and my cousin’s daughter (who is just a year or so older than Peyton) and to go see Winter from A Dolphin Tale. Because there were so many of us together, we didn’t actually get to buy the bra or read Before I Was Born together, so we saved those things for an afternoon date when we got home and just deemed our week in Florida an #8thbirthdayadventure.

When our second daughter turned 8, we flew to Florida again, but this time we ran in a Color Run together, and her Aunt Lindsay was able to join us.

I usually start thinking about their 8th birthday adventures a full year in advance because I want them each to be very special and related to their interests and passions. When we started talking about our third daughter’s adventure, there was no doubt that it would center around animals. She spends her days playing “animal rescuer” with her sisters and friends, and she loves pretty much every animal.

We finally settled on Atlanta as our destination since the Georgia Aquarium and Zoo Atlanta are both so incredible, and we’ve been making plans for the last few months.

When we started talking about driving from my mom’s house rather than flying, I was worried that she’d be disappointed because her sisters got to fly, but she thought about it for a few minutes and asked, “Well, can we ride a bus?!” and she’s been counting down the moments to riding a bus ever since.

Planning the bus trip ended up being the most stressful part of the week. I’ve only rarely used the Metro in D.C. and never had to figure out public transportation schedules, etc. so it all left my head spinning a bit! But we finally decided to drive to the bus depot in downtown Atlanta and then ride the bus to the zoo and back rather than trying to figure out a bunch of transfers and schedules. I still had to ask a ton of questions at the depot and of the bus driver (and another passenger took pity on us and pulled the “Stop Requested” cord when I wasn’t sure whether I was supposed to or not), but overall it was a lot of fun. She was thrilled to ride, sitting on her knees as we drove past Centennial Olympic Park and under the Olympic rings. The ride back was a little less thrilling since the bus was packed, but she was still excited to check that off her bucket list!

The aquarium and zoo were as amazing as we’d heard. It was fun to be able to do them both with just one child so that she could stay and pet the goats at the zoo for as long as she wanted and get a prime view of the ginormous whale shark without having to make room for her sisters. {But, man, do I wish Jackson could have been there with all of his toddler enthusiasm. I could just imagine him saying, “Whoa, whoa, whoa!” at some of the exhibits!}

 

Overall, it was such a sweet time together, and I’m so thankful that we’re able to make these happen! I only get to go on one more with our youngest daughter before Sean gets to take over the tradition with the boys, and I will definitely be sad to miss out on those adventures!

Do you have any special traditions? Do you take birthday trips or adventures?

On turning 8 and birthday adventures

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We’re celebrating Baby Lucas with a 6 for $6 special offer!

We are just 11-12 weeks away from welcoming Baby Lucas to our family, and almost every day Sean and I look at each other and go, “We’re going to have SIX kids!” You’d think that would have sunk in by now, but it still feels like the surprise that it was when we got the positive pregnancy test!

And it also feels like it’s coming way too fast!

Because we truly believe that every life is worth celebrating—even Baby #6, even when it’s a surprise—we want to celebrate by offering you an amazing deal on Life Your Way products, this week only.

Between now and August 14th, we’re celebrating baby #6 by offering you all 6 of our most popular products for just $6 for the set!

Click here to get yours today.

To put that into perspective, the Life Your Way Complete Printable Pack is already a steal of a deal at its regular price of $7. But this week only, you’ll get all 400+ of those printables PLUS…

Easy Homemade: Homemade Pantry Staples for the Busy Modern Family ($5.99), with more than 80 simple recipes to help you make the pantry staples you use most often.
101 Days of Christmas ($3.99), featuring 101+ of my favorite Christmas projects from the early years of the 101 Days of Christmas series, including recipes, crafts and traditions.
101 MORE Days of Christmas ($3.99), with even more recipes, crafts and activities to help you celebrate!
How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too ($4.99), my very first ebook with tips and encouragement for pursuing your personal passions and business ideas while juggling a family and home.
You Can Do It, Too! + A Peek Into Our Homeschool ($4.99), with encouragement and real-life stories from other homeschool families.

The total package would cost $31 separately, but right now you can get it for just $6.Hurry, though, because this offer is only available through the 14th, and you’ll never see them at this price again!

Click here to get yours today.
FAQs…

1. I already own some of these products or I’m only interested in a couple of them, can I share the ones I won’t use with someone else?

Yes, if you already own 2 or 3 of the ebooks or are really only interested in a couple of them but still want to take advantage of this deal to get the rest, you’re welcome to pass along the ones you won’t use to someone else.

2. What format are these ebooks? Can I access them on my ereader?

All of the ebooks include a PDF format, which can be viewed on your computer or various devices. Easy Homemade and 101 Days of Christmas also include ereader files that you can load to your Kindle or other ereader. The printables are best viewed on a computer.

3. I didn’t receive my download links.

Download links are sent to the email address associate with your Paypal address. If you don’t see them in your spam folder, please email me at mandi@yourway.net so I can help you access those!

We’re celebrating Baby Lucas with a 6 for $6 special offer!

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