Homeschool Fiction

I’ve been inspired to eat a 100% McDougall friendly vegan diet again.  For the past month, I’ve kept my total fat grams to 10 or less a day.  I’ve added no fat to my foods (such as vegan butter, etc.), but have allowed for small quantities of naturally occurring higher fat foods, such as nuts [...]

To cool off this summer, my kids and I have been experimenting with making all kinds of different flavored homemade popsicles (which are far healthier and less expensive than store bought ones).  So far, our favorites have been lemonade (with and without prickly pear juice) and a mixture of lemonade and orange juice.  Yesterday, we [...]

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DoLifeRight: Tell me a bit about yourself and your family (name, children’s ages, where you live, etc.).
Liz: My name is Liz, and my husband Nate and I have two kids: [...]

As of today, all of the illustrations for my upcoming children’s chapter book, Wright on Time: ARIZONA, Book 1, are completed! I’ve been working on the website, adding new things each day. Please sign up for the newsletter!
While we all impatiently wait for the book to be available for sale, I’ll be posting little [...]

Trying to come up with Father’s Day crafts for my Girl Scout troop this year was quite a challenge!  We’ve been making crafty things together for nearly eight years and it seems like we’ve made everything there is to be made.  Then, I thought, it’s been a LOOOONG time since we’ve decorated t-shirts…  To do [...]

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DoLifeRight: Tell me a bit about yourself and your family (name, children’s ages, where you live, etc.):
Lisa: I am Lisa Russell, we have six girls age 15, 12, 8, 6, 3 and 17mos and we live in WA State.

DoLifeRight: How long have you homeschooled [...]

In honor of loving the show Jake Long: American Dragon, my youngest daughter named her two most recent Webkinz pets Jake and Haley.  When we first watched the show, I misunderstood the lyrics “people were not bragging ” as “the purple one eyed dragon”, thus our purchase of the purple Emperor’s Dragon. Misunderstood song [...]

Every three months, the Whipple Observatory’s visitor center hosts a “Star Party”.  Since we can see this observatory from our house, we’ve been wanting to go there for some time.  When I first looked into it, my youngest was younger than 6. Since they don’t allow those younger than 6 to go to the observatory [...]

Today marks the day that my family and I have officially watched every single Star Trek episode.  Yes, all of them!
We started several years ago watching them in chronological (by release date) order with Star Trek: The Original Series (3 seasons), mixed with Star Trek: The Animated Series (a little oft forgotten two season cute [...]

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DoLifeRight: Tell me a bit about yourself and your family (name, children’s ages, where you live, etc.):
Sara: I’m Sara, mom to three unschooling daughters, ages 6, 4, and 8 months. I work at home writing freelance articles for several online publications and sometimes doing [...]