Tag: disorganization

  • Let’s Try Notebooking

    Notebooking … ahhh, just the thought makes me hyper! If I could ask every homeschooling family to do just one thing, it would be to just give notebooking a try. This is the one technique that pulls everything together—studies, research, real life, personal interests—everything! It reaches even the most reluctant writer! It makes homeschooling fun and easy! Who wouldn’t want to try that?

    Not just that! Everything that normally clutters up the busy homeschool home can be tucked away into a notebook! All of those precious narrations can be safely protected in notebooks. All of those daily copywork lessons can find their home in notebooks on each of the topics that your children love so much. Even those awesome handouts that you have piled up from field trips can find the perfect home in your notebooks! Homeschooling is recorded. An heirloom is built! (more…)

  • 1, 2, 3 Tidy! Quick Tips For The Messy Mom to Have an Organized Home by Cindy Rushton

    Organizing your home can be a daunting challenge.  Whether daily or weekend cleaning is your strong suit, it seems the harder you work, the more clutter you find, especially if you have children. Here are some quick tips that just might help you have an organized home…

    1. Prepare lunch at night. This will save lots of time in the morning rush and be one less thing that you will have to think about during your morning lessons/routines. One thing that we have done through the years is cook large meals at night and have “left-overs” for lunch–we never call it “left-overs” we just call it “PREPARED!” ha!
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