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Homemade bread for our large family

making bread has been a huge part of my life as a mother... here’s the problem, don’t start making homemade bread, unless you plan on doing it forever!!! Once you eat homemade bread, it’s didficult to eat store brought breads!!! Even some of the nicest, most expensive, they just seem so dry and bland.  That being said, I can make all our bread for our family of 11 (currently in the house) in about 15 minutes! (Not including the rise and bake time) I usually make it on the weekend, and then again around Wednesday or Thursday each week. Whenever I make it, I incorporate it into our dinner that night. Usually making 3 or 4  loaves of bread and 1 pan of rolls- for dinner. You see if you don’t do that, you’ll end up eating all of it the first night, right!!! No one can resist hot, fresh, homemade bread- especially with melted butter!!! 💖 So here’s the recipe, I know you’re all dying to have!  This should make about 5 loaves of bread, or a mix of bread and rolls  6 cu
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Simple Morning Time Geography, for the whole family.....

In our Morning Time we will be reading some fun and educational picture books to begin our family geography lessons. Yes I'm just starting this now, in March.... sometimes that happens. We've been studying geography in both our Good and the Beautiful Language Arts, and also our Mystery of History Lessons, so I don't actually feel bad about this! First up, for our World Geography.  I decided to start with a general world geography book. I chose  Somewhere in the World Right Now by Stacey Schuett.  This book is alot of fun. It discusses different geographical areas, showing some amazing pictures. It mostly talks about the time zones and international date line. I thought that would be a nice introduction, and something we haven't really discussed a lot. We started our week off with this beauty, on Monday. After we finished our morning time, and headed to our school room. You see, we meet on our couches, in our family room for a lot

Free Easter Crossword Puzzles...

It's time for Spring Planning, and Easter Prep... It's not too far away, honestly.  Easter is April 21, this year.  The Easter Season is almost here!  Let's celebrate by practicing to spell some fun words in an Easter Crossword Puzzle. Easter Crossword Puzzle Answer Key Hop on over to  Education.com   for more  learning resources and printables  just like this! and Happy Easter Planning

Laundry, A system we use, and love....

Laundry, well it's one of the to do's on every families to do list, that is not a favorite.... I've never known anyone to say,  I LOVE LAUNDRY sure some of us say I love empty laundry baskets, or I love when my laundry is all done. I do laundry, I don't complain about it, much... I just have accepted it, so to speak.  How do we manage our laundry?  I prefer to do all our laundry together. I don't like to share my laundry machines with everyone. I've tried to have set rotations or wash days for each child, or sometimes a group of children, maybe by room. However I found that was alot more headache for me. Remembering whose turn it is, or what day we are on, what rotation we are with. What happens when we have an off day, or a busy day, and laundry doesn't happen that day.  We are able to do all our laundry for our house of 9 kids, plus towels and cloths, together. If I run atleast 2 loads a day, I am typically able to keep up with our l

Free 3 digit subtraction fun....

Some days you just need a little change in the routine or a quick way to review a new concept. One thing I've noticed about homeschooers, is they don't typically have that hate of worksheets from the worksheet/busy work overload. If your child is needing help with three-digit subtraction, then I have just the right freebie for you!  Your kids will have fun with these cute leaf themed, three-digit subtraction worksheet freebies. For more math fun,  or fun free worksheets visit  Education.com Three-digit Subtraction Worksheet ANSWER KEY Happy Homeschooling.... you got this!

Memorizing Multiplication for the year....

This year I have decided to focus on our multiplication facts.  My 10th, 7th, and 6th graders will be reviewing them, While my 4th, 2nd and 1st graders will be learning them. My younger 2 boys, really enjoy memorizing things, ANYTHING... so why not get this stuck in their heads, now? If they learn them, great if not, it will be knowledge they will use later when they do learn them.  I am made a binder for the younger 3.  I printed one sheet of each of the times tables,  here . These are in page protectors, and they will fill them out each day, using a dry erase marker. We will work on one table a week, moving 1-12 and then starting over again. If they get to knowing the facts really well, I'll switch them to a timed drill.  We will also learn a nursery rhyme skip counting song, from  planing playtime.   I am also hoping to add some fun games that I may find. I also downloaded  these . I used the 1-12 tables. I made 1 with the rainbow table, and 1 of the b

My Happy Planner.....

I'm a planner nerd, you know the type... they get all googly eyed as they walk down the office supply aisle.  Can't help looking at color coded.... well everything.  And planners, well they own too many, and never stop looking at them! NERD!! Yep that's me! Enter,  the Happy Planner, the Create 365, the Me and My Big Ideas Planner.  (yeah it's known by all those names!) Do you see this beauty.... I am in love with it!!!  This is the Big Happy Planner, the Big size, not classic or mini.  I purchased the horizontal, Big sized regular planner.  Let me just explain the layout.  I use the top section for our family life planning. Things like outings, classes, lessons, parties with groups, and the likes. The first hand drawn line, at the bottom of the top section is where I write down who's sheets are being, or should be, washed every day. My goal is once a week, but well life happens. It's there to just remind me, what I need t