Hi! I’m Abi and I’m married to my wonderful husband, Matt! We have three wonderful children: Micah(5) Shiloh (3) and Titus(2). They fill our days with laughter and entertainment.

We homeschool, stay active in our community, and are almost licensed to foster babies under 2.

Our Morning:

Every morning we wake up and enjoy our overnight oats together!

Then we clean up the kitchen as a family and do our morning circle time before running any errands or going on play dates.

Our Afternoon:

Usually Daddy comes home for lunch and spends an hour with us.

Then our little two head up to nap and I stay downstairs with Micah for school.

Since it’s summer, we play in our HAPPY Planners (great fine motor and handwriting practice) and read or play a learning game like ABCmouse.

Our Evening:

Tonight for dinner we had grilled chicken and corn on the cob. Our family is gluten free because my middle daughter, Shiloh, has Celiac.

After dinner we played outside in our new sprinkler until it was time for bed.

Then we brushed teeth, read a Bible story, and the kids went to bed.

Just for Fun:

We formed our own co-op last year with a few other local families. It was wonderful and just right for preschool. This year we’re joining a larger, more established co-op for kindergarten and we’re so excited!

We also do Awana and are very involved with our church.

The girls also enjoy gymnastics classes among other things with our local parks and rec!

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Hi! This is the Solomon family. There are five of us humans: Dad, Mom, Jesse (9), Sam (7), and Felicity (5).

We also have a few non-human family members: Max and Penny (our dog twins), Run (our elderly gerbil), and Rocket (the fish).

Our boys are into all things technological and are excited to learn coding this coming year. Felicity is just starting to learn to read.

We just moved to Oregon this year for Dad’s job. It’s been an exciting 6 months as we make new friends and explore this beautiful area! We’re looking forward to lots of hiking and beach trips this summer.

Our Morning:

Our family is SO relaxed. Mom and Dad get up to send Dad off to work at about 7:00 every day, but the kids all get up when they wake up.

Most days, Sam is our early riser and acts as Mommy’s little alarm clock. He gets up around 6:30 and bops around in his room until 7:00. He and Mom come downstairs and he reads, or plays with something while Mom gets breakfast. The other two kids emerge at various times and eat breakfast.

We don’t have a set schedule, and like to let life’s natural rhythms guide our days. Typically, we’re sitting at the table doing our various workbooks by 10:00. The kids each have a list of all the workbooks they’re supposed to finish each day Monday through Friday. If they get it all finished by Thursday, Friday is a free day! If not, they can catch up, and if it’s all done by Friday afternoon, they get Wii time. Mom works one-on-one with each one as needed until lunch time.

The only day that’s different is Friday when we do science. Until we moved, we had another family join us every Friday for science and play. We’re on the lookout for someone to do that with us again next year!

Our Afternoon:

Lunch is simple. Often, it’s lunch meat, cheese, and some fruit and veggies on a divided plate. We all know what to expect, and they eat better that way.

Once or twice a week, we will read history together while we eat lunch. “Kill two birds with one stone” is our motto!

Before we moved, Mom taught piano lessons every afternoon. We all loved it. The kids got to play with her student’s siblings during the lessons, and Mom loves teaching!

Now that we’ve moved, the kids watch the clock and run outside as soon as 2:30 rolls around. That means the local elementary school is out and their friends are home. There are so many kids in our new neighborhood, they almost never have a shortage of playmates. Often, our house has a passel of girls playing dress-up, and a herd of boys riding bikes up and down the street.

We run errands in the afternoon when we need to, but most of the time, they play, and Mom does her “work” (chores, emails, phone calls) or reads or practices.

Our Evening:

PBS has a couple of awesome shows on right at the time Mom is making dinner. Unless the kids are engrossed in playing, they get to watch their two shows at 5:00. Daddy comes home from work and relaxes for an hour before dinner, and Mom is busy in the kitchen.

We eat together, and talk about our days. Penny begs Mom for food as soon as Mom shows signs of being finished eating. Felicity’s job is to feed the dogs, though. The dogs haven’t figured this out yet…

After dinner, it’s pj’s, teeth brushing, and story time. Each kid gets to pick a book for Mom and Dad to read while we’re piled on the couch. Jesse always has a chapter book we’re reading aloud together. Right now, it’s Mossflower from the Redwall series and we’re all enjoying it!

After bed, we tuck kids in and say goodnight! Lights out is 8:30. Sam (our early-riser) is asleep like a light, the other two are night owls and like to read for awhile. We love the flexibility of our routine. Schedules have never been our thing. Some days we get more “school” done than other days. I don’t think we’ve every actually finished a workbook during a school year… We take breaks as needed – usually every 6 weeks and pick up where we left off! September and October are usually way more productive than April and May.

Cleaning and things happen as needed. The kids have some chores they have to do, and others that they can get paid to do. And if Mom or Dad has to do one of their chores, they pay Mom and Dad!

Like I said: Flexible!

Just for Fun:

We have always been a part of a co-op until we moved. We’ve been searching for a co-op in Oregon and have located one we will join in the fall!

We love co-op! It is wonderful for the kids to have friends who homeschool. And Mom likes that it takes some of the pressure off. Mom gets to build friendships at co-op, too which is a vital part of homeschooling. We aren’t meant to go this alone. We need our people!

Because Mom taught piano, one of her older students taught the kids piano. It was an awesome arrangement.

The kids have also all done soccer at the YMCA and swim lessons. We adjust life around those scheduled things with each season as we go. We try to not be over scheduled. One “thing” per day is usually sufficient. And often less than that.

Here in Oregon, we joined a homeschool PE class taught at a local gymnastics center. It’s so fun. Every Wednesday, Mom drops the kids off for two hours right after lunch. The class is 5-18 years all together which most people think would be chaos, but it works great! 

Hey There! I’m Lisa Morgan, a homeschooling mom with a full time job and a part time law-practice.

Thank God for Grandma who makes sure Rachel, our favorite 8-year-old, aspires to be a Fashion Designing Chemist and mother to 3. Hannah our recent Kindergarten graduate aspires to see the world….from out of space. She is planning her career as an Astronaut…. she’ll blast off as soon as she figures out how to get to Mars and be home in time to have dinner with her children and tuck them in before bedtime. Lucky us, Grandma arrived early every day to teach and make sure everyone gets their lessons finished.

We love to ride bikes, create stories and plays, bake treats and create fantastic art sculptures.

On the weekends, Paul, our Papa Bear takes us out on the town for family fun.

Our Morning:

On a typical school day, Grandma arrives as mom is heading out for work.

Rachel and Hannah get their day going with breakfast, get dressed as tidy their room. On school mornings breakfast might be eggs with whole grain toast, oatmeal or grits. We save the fun cereal and pancakes for the weekends.

Before starting school we recite our “I AM” affirmations, sing out Morning songs, spend a little time in nature and then get to the business of learning. We often start our school year after Labor Day and are REALLY EXCITED to combine the “hands on” and critical thinking approach Timberdoodle offers with Sonlight’s literature.

Our Afternoon:

We take lots of breaks during the course of the day, so the afternoon is spent completing assignments, outdoor play and computer based learning before mom gets home. Rachel liked finishing her challenging work (reading and math) in the morning and saves the fun stuff like Geography for the afternoon. Hannah likes to finish her school day early so she has time to play Tiggly Math and sight words games on the “learning pad.”

Our Evening:

Mom gets home between 5:00 and 6:00 and then we get dinner going. We LOVE salmon, salads of dark leafy greens, pasta and broccoli.

Rachel and Hannah complete their evening reading with Mom or Dad before getting ready for bed.

The four of us pile on the girls room to listen to Mommy read our favorite adventures. We also like to listen to Jim Weiss of Great Hall Productions tell great stories of King Midas, Shakespeare or Arabian Nights. We take turns saying our evening prayers and Mommy sings a medley of original and old classics like Angels Watching Over Me and The Whole World’s in His Hands.

Just for Fun:

Discovery HomeSchool Academy is the BEST!!! On Tuesdays, Grandma gets the day off and Rachel and Hannah are off to learn and socialize with school friends. Nothing beats the fantastic art and musical productions they put on several times a year. The room parties, science experiments and Social Studies projects are fun too! Rachel was thrilled when her class followed her suggestion and created a community of people to populate the city they designed. Hannah delights and impresses the family with the songs she learns in music and her public speaking skills which are well honed at “Show and Tell.”

Hi! My name is Alicia. I am a homeschooling/work-at-home mom – so, boy, do I juggle. My husband Aaron and I have three children — Malcolm, age 11, Langston, age 9, and Mayana, age 4. Aaron works as a higher ed administrator, and I do non-profit strategy consulting.

Our kids are thrilled to have the freedom to explore their interests that homeschooling allows for — at the moment they are into Pokemon, making fidget spinners out of all kinds of materials, Norse myths, wood working, logic puzzles, and Broadway show tunes (the four-year-old). We also keep backyard chickens.

Our Morning:

The morning always starts with feeding the chickens, light chores, and violin practice.

This week, we have been studying the periodic table, focusing on understanding the logic behind its structure and what an element’s location on the periodic table tells us about its likely properties. We are reading excerpts from a book called “The Disappearing Spoon.” The kids are introduced to the element gallium – a metal with a low melting point (85.58 degrees Fahrenheit). We have fun with melting and resolidifying gallium. The older two are filling out parts of the period table by memory, then turn to reading a section from their science text that corresponds to the lesson.

Our Afternoon:

Afterward, the boys tackle independent reading for a monthly book club, math problems, and their grammar workbooks. They also work for a bit on a script for a “1-Minute Movie” contest as part of their writing assignment for the week.

Wanting to do her “homework” too, their little sister plays with counters, “draws” letters for a “book” she’s making, and spends time with mom on a reading app.

Our Evening:

The late afternoon begins with a fencing class at a local park district while little sister plays at the nearby park.

Dinner is chicken, broccoli and rice.

Dishes and other chores are done, with free time until bed.

Baseball season has begun, so one of the boys elects to watch a bit of the game, while the other builds structures in an online world.

Little sister plays “horses” and walks around singing songs.

Mom catches up on email, planning for the next day.

Just for Fun:

Homeschool co-op; fencing lessons; soccer; Chinese tutoring; violin; dance class

Hello! It’s nice to meet you! Welcome to our home.

My name is Caroline and I’m blessed to have six wonderful children. We’ve always been a homeschool family and we love to learn. Homeschooling and learning are definitely a part of our lives, as you’ll clearly see evidenced by the myriad of bookcases and books we’ve been blessed with over the years. We love to read together, learn together and serve together. We also enjoy going for walks, playing putt putt golf, hiking, memorizing scripture, going to museums and the library.

Our Morning:

We enjoy schooling year round and taking breaks throughout the year, so you’ll frequently find us in our regular routine. We often have oatmeal for breakfast, which one of my older sons usually makes because he makes the best oatmeal! Sometimes I will make banana oat pancakes or eggs and toast. Everyone enjoys those, as well.

We use a variety of curriculum. Currently we’re using Notgrass history, Apologia science, Teaching Textbooks math, IEW writing, Rosetta Stone French, Memoria Press Latin, Canon Press logic, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and various character books, logic puzzles, games, puzzles, etc. We also are using YWAM’s prayer journals and Scripture Memory Fellowship’s Sermon on the Mount memory journals. We read a lot of quality literature books, as well. My children read independently, as well as I read many books aloud for all of us.

Our Afternoon:

We’re flexible with our schedule and times vary depending on what we have planned for that day. We’re usually still “schooling” in the afternoon, but as I mentioned, we enjoy homeschooling and learning, so it’s more of a lifestyle for us than drudgery.

My children all have responsibilities to do that include making their beds, setting the table, cleaning up after meals, cleaning the bathroom, etc. They also enjoy cooking, so frequently they either make meals or are amazing sous-chefs.

Our Evening:

After dinner, we like to go for a walk if time and weather permit. We then end our day with family worship and prayer, reading aloud and bed!

Just for Fun:

Currently we are enjoying taking sewing, bead-weaving and woodworking classes. We also enjoy going to a nursing home, museums, baseball games and the beach. I try not to allow extracurricular activities to become a burden, so we only schedule them when they’re a blessing to our family and don’t become something that distracts our focus.

It’s been a joy to “meet” you! Each homeschooling family is so unique. I hope you will seek the LORD and find the tools, resources and routines that are best for your family, during each, different season of your lives. Different things work well at different times and when things don’t seem to be working, you may just need to make a change in your curriculum or routine. =)

“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:12-14

Welcome to the Compton Family. We consist of Dad the Architect, Mom the Nurturer, Oliver the Go Getter, and Lulah the Baby Doll Lover. We are adventurers at heart and love to try new things!

Our Morning:

Our mornings go like this: Oliver (4) runs to our room and I get woken up with “Mommy, I have to go poop!” followed by “Mommy, I’m done. Can you please wipe my bottom?” All the while Lulah (2) has been woken up by the sound of him running to our bath room, so the next thing I hear is “Mommy, I want out!” over and over again until I get her out of her crib. This is my wake up call almost everyday.

Coffee is my next requirement to be going at a fast pace to keep with my kids. I still have yet to figure out how they hit the ground running so fast.

The next adventure of the day is “What will the couch be today?” Oliver and Lulah have flown over oceans and around the world. They have climbed mountains, gone to the deepest oceans and have taken trips to the grocery store. It has been an airplane, jeep, submarine, hot air balloon, van, car, sports car, bulldozer and almost any other moving vehicle you can think of. It has been a hotel, a tiny home and a bathtub. It’s always something new and exciting.

Our Afternoon:

By the afternoon we are ready for some recharge.

Lulah goes down for a nap and Oliver and I have “school time.” Coming this fall to a house like ours will be the Pre-K Timberdoodle Curriculum! We will be joining in the family. While we wait we make desserts, we play Legos, do crafts, read books and enjoy just being together.

Our Evening:

The real fun is about to hit in… 3… 2… 1… Dad’s home!! We all just can’t wait to see him and give him kisses and tell him all about the happenings of the day.

Dinner gets on the table and the kids are off talking about what we did, who we saw, and asking, “What did you do today, Dad?”

Dinner gets cleared and there might be some wrestling going on, or getting bikes ready for a bike ride, or some time spent with friends before bed.

Bedtime is pretty routine until we open up the books and we all get taken into another world. The dreams that they must have of mice talking, fish walking and zoo animals going on a fishing trip I can only imagine. This time spent together is what makes our hearts full.

Just for Fun:

I have one word for outside activities: “Park.” Where we live we have 37 parks in our town and, boy, does that make us happy. In the summer we are outside almost everyday. When we have friends meet us at one it’s like Christmas!