Arts & craft supplies everywhere? Do you need a place to store your kids’ supplies? In this post, I’ll share where I store all of my arts & crafts (and homeschool materials). I’ll even share my DIY file cabinet art center with … Continued
What do you do when you have very little closet space in a small house, lots of laundry, and lots of small kids who grow out of their clothes every few months? Our solution: THE KID CLOSET! We (…or I, … Continued
Continuing my peg doll series, this post is all about our peg doll monastery and male Saint collection! As I’ve said in previous posts, I love to paint them, I love to give them to my kids as gifts, and they … Continued
2021 UPDATE: I reorganized our toy system. We now use a toy rotation and it is an. absolute. game. changer. I still keep the same types of toys I outlined in this post and I still limit the amount of … Continued
I had this crazy idea the other day to paint 22 new peg dolls all at once! What was I thinking?! Well, I wanted to paint all of the characters in the Passion narrative so my kids could play with … Continued
Our kids love books…and we have a TON of them! While we try to limit toys, we don’t really limit literature. We want to encourage their love of reading. So this post is meant to share how our crazy homeschool library is … Continued
During Lent, we are looking forward to Christ’s Resurrection. It’s a special time to grow deeper in our love for and reliance on Him as we fast, pray & give alms. I was reading about ways to encourage children to participate and journey … Continued
This nursery DIY project took me a while, mostly because life happens: baby needs to nap (and be changed and fed…and changed and fed), and momma needs to sleep too. Before our daughter Edith slept in her crib, I didn’t … Continued
What do you do when your husband’s a writer/English major/former 5th year Seminarian/has a Masters in Philosphy and you’ve inherited his hundreds of books…with no place to put them? Well, you keep them in boxes for the first year and … Continued