I taught dance for almost 20 years and prior to that I was a nanny in Seattle. I have spent the majority of my life listening to children's music and I have three absolute favorite children's artists. Ones that I have zero problem listening to all day long. Artists who have stood the test of time in our home. Our absolute favorite children's musician is Justin Roberts! Justin Roberts writes music from the child's perspective and it brings pure joy with a folk PNW vibe. Justin

I am now 10-years into our homeschooling journey and I have learned a ton. I have used so many different curriculums over the years. It took me years to find a spelling curriculum that worked well for our family. In the beginning I kept trying to "make it fun". I have learned that as important as it is to make learning fun, if I kept trying to learn every subject through play, we weren't going to have enough time to get to everything which meant...we didn't do it at all. Spel

I have spent hours upon hours deciding on this book list... It's finally happening! On March 1, 2026 I am releasing our BRAND NEW Book Explorer Guides for Preschool - 1st Graders! So we will now have four different age-levels to choose from. Book Explorer Suggested Age Levels Sprouts | 3-4 Seedlings | 5-6 Buds | 7-9 Blossoms | 10+ Our Sprouts and Seedlings will release seasonally. We'll have four guides per age level, and I'll be creating two-years of book lists. That way, if

This photo is from one of my favorite homeschool spaces we've had. We lived in a three-bedroom apartment when our oldest was in kindergarten. We also had a two-year-old and newborn baby. This photo is of our dining room which also served as our learning space and office.  I loved the coziness that this space brought. In this home, we did not have much storage so I used every space I could find to store things for our learning adventures together. Our kids did not need much in

I am so excited about this year's Book Explorer Guide releases! I had every intention of finishing so many of these in 2025 and life happened...life happened hard. We are in such a great place right now and I have so much more time to devote to our Book Explorers. If you are new here, our Book Explorer Guides offer full language arts unit studies for beautiful books. We bring the books to life in each and every lesson. Your child will learn grammar, writing, literature skills

We are thrilled to now be including our Kids Book Club In our monthly Play & Learn Club Membership! Each Friday (minus any that fall on a holiday), our kids will meet-up via Zoom to discuss that week's assigned reading. I chose the books for the next 15 months to take us through the end of 2026 and am sharing all the choices here with you not only so our families can plan ahead, but also because these are just incredible children's books that I hope all families get the chanc

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I don’t have anything to write here tonight. There are far too many thoughts to process this all into one post right now. There are...

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