Announcing — The 2013 Blue Ribbon Awards!

Wow! It’s hard to believe that another Crew year has come to an end already. It’s been a busy, fun, inspiring year with 86 wonderful companies sharing their products with our team! We are so grateful for the honor of getting to know all of these companies through these opportunities, and today we’d like to … Read more

Practice That Feels Like Play (IXL Review)

  IXL is one of the first names in homeschooling excellence. Long known for its math practice drills, it has recently added language arts practice drills for grades 2-4 as well. IXL offers state standards and common core aligned math practice skills for grades K-12, including Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II. Pre-Calculus is coming … Read more

Living A Beautiful Life: It’s the Small Moments

Several years ago, I stumbled across an interesting statistic. We spend 95% of our lives anticipating the other 5%. The 5%  makes up the “biggies” such as holidays, vacations and other celebrations.  As homeschool moms, we often live in survival mode (or is just me?) The expectations we (and others) place on ourselves can be overwhelming.  I can’t tell you … Read more