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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.

  • Making a mummy

    Making a mummy

    We started studying Egypt this week in our homeschool history lesson, and what do you think of when you think of Egypt, but mummies.  So, taking a page from the Story of the World Ancient History lessons, we’re making a mummy.Warning, not for the easily grossed out, or germ-o-phobes.Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here, and I’m…

  • Peru Unit

    Peru Unit

    I was looking for old posts to share and found a chicken soup post to share, I’m reading it and realized it was from back when I was doing Around the World in 12 Dishes, and it was a Peru dish. It was an interesting flash from the past. It was also probably not a…

  • Why Did the Exodus Happen Review

    Why Did the Exodus Happen Review

    Do you want to hear something funny? There were slave owners who made Bibles without the book of Exodus because they did not want their enslaved people to know it was possible to escape slavery. They didn’t want them to know that God led the Israelites out of slavery, so they just removed the entire…

  • Ghana Unit

    Ghana Unit

    I always try to find a picture from each country that I write about. This can be challenging because I want to find something that represents that country and frequently what we think of is cultural dress, but I don’t want to picture the people, and I don’t want to fall into stereotypes. I ran…

  • Labyrinth, a game to play with the whole family

    Labyrinth, a game to play with the whole family

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    For years I heard people rave about Labyrinth. I’d even given a copy to a friend for Christmas one year, and I had a copy sitting on my shelves, but for whatever reason we didn’t really pull our copy out all that often. Then I went on a “clear out our game shelves” kick, and…

  • January 2025 month in review

    January 2025 month in review

    Y’all we are almost 1/4 of the way through the 21 century, how is that for weird?(there are affiliate links in here)Week 1Most of my pictures are from the first few days before Batman left to head back to the army. This will probably be the week that has the most pictures.We played a whole…

  • Germany Unit

    Germany Unit

    We studied Germany a couple of different times in our geography lessons. We studied it first when the kids were little as part of a Christmas Around the World Unit. Then we made a delicious meal, and finally we did a mad dash through Europe in high school. Now in 2025, years after we completed…

  • Pirates booklist

    Pirates booklist

    Arrr! We all love pirates, or we like the theory of pirates, but if we think about it too much, we start to realize pirates are not the fun romanticized idea, so let’s just go with ARRR! I was looking up some books on something else when I saw a book I vaguely remembered reading…

  • China Unit

    China Unit

    Geography studies are a great way for your kids to learn about different countries, and with Chinese New Year being so recent a bunch of us have been looking for China activities for elementary kids.  What amazes me is how many amazing things there are to create a great China Unit for a geography lesson.Hi,…