Hi! I’m Ticia, and this is my little corner of the internet. I’ve successfully homeschooled all three of my children and sent them out into the world. You’ll find our lives starting in preschool all the way up to present day. I loved homeschooling my kids and sharing our crazy messy lives and the fun adventures we had. You’ll see a lot of history, a smattering of science (though not quite as much as the kids got older as their science got more complicated), many books, and a lot of Bible. I hope I can give you the confidence to know you can homeschool your kids and teach your kids all about the Bible even if you don’t know all of the answers (spoiler, no one knows all of the answers). There are so many fun ways to learn, and writing about it gives me an excuse to keep learning and keep doing all this cool stuff even though my kids have graduated from homeschool.
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World War 2 unit
One of my favorite authors sent out an email reminding us that this week is the 70th anniversary of D-Day. I was lucky enough to be in France during the 50th anniversary of D-Day, and in honor of that, I’d like to share with you all of our World War 2 unit which is an…
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April 2026 memories
It is April 22 and I’m just now starting to type up April. I kind of got behind as I started to write it and then got busy with other things. (There are affiliate links) Week 1 April has been insane! We started the month with replacing the windows of our house. It’s amazing how…
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How Big is a Whale?
We finished up the chapter on whales and dolphins, but I didn’t think they were quite grasping how big these animals were. If I read to you a whale is 100 feet long would you know how long that is? So we started to investigate, how big is a whale? This made for a great…
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Dear graduate
A dear friend of mine graduated from high school last year. As part of her graduation, I wrote this letter, and I had it on my mind to share it with other graduates. Future Ticia 2026 who is rescheduling this post has since shared variations on this with several kids. I think this is going…
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March in Review
All right, let me get this month started Week 1 I spent the first week of March organizing my pantry. That took three trips to Ikea, which mainly involved buying more of those big plastic tubs. The first trip, I bought 4 of the big tubs and several of the smaller tubs. Then I figured…
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Teaching early elementary students how to write reports
Once we are adults, we spend large amounts of time writing reports, but it is not an easy skill to learn, and there are several types of reports. It is good from an early age for kids to write reports and learn how to write reports. I like to find different ways to incorporate learning…
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February in review
Okay February, this is the shortest month of the year and it already feels like it’s been 3 months long. Not that you can tell from the pictures I took. (there are affiliate links in here) Week 1 Jeff and I have been slowly clearing out the random debris in the loft so the carpets…
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Travel Games
We LOVE road trips. We travel quite a bit, and that means I have kids who are bored in the car. In the 13 years, this is Future Ticia of 2019, not the 2013 Ticia saying this, of parenting my kids haven’t had electronics in the car. Instead, they’ve read books, listened to audiobooks, and…
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Can you cross the Oobleck Ocean?
A few years ago we studied astronomy (check out our astronomy lessons), and at the end of it all we had a Life in Space Unit, and one of the activities I somehow forgot to write about all those years ago was crossing the Oobleck Ocean. This is a super fun and messy STEM project,…