Written by Jessica Fisher of Good Cheap Eats and Life as Mom Several times during a school year, the thought hits me: I just can’t do it all. I can keep a perfectly tidy home, or I can rock an awesome homeschool, or I can make healthy, three-course meals three times a day, or I can run a great …
Jessica’s Homeschool Day in the Life (with a 2-, 4-, 6-, 8-, 10-, & 13-year-old)
Written by Jessica Fisher of Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats Yes, you read that title right. I have six children. My! How times have changed! When I first started this homeschooling journey, my days went like clockwork. Certain days were devoted to library trips, play dates, and park days. …
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Plans for “summer school” at home
Written by contributor Jessica Fisher of Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats This week our family completed our eleventh year of homeschooling. Really? How did that happen?! The time has passed so quickly. It seems like just yesterday my son was doing beginning reading and now this week he turns …
5 ways to manage home and school
Written by Jessica Fisher of Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats Ours is a busy household. As you can imagine, with eight people, the sheer volume of dishes, laundry, and stuff to manage is fairly high, at least twice that of the "average" home. Coupled with homeschooling and being home-based in the …
Cozy up with a good book.
Written by Jessica Fisher of Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats Over the last two weeks, my kids and I have been engrossed in a family read aloud. I checked out the digital edition of The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. Since it was only a two-week check-out, it was a race to …