Author: Ticia

  • December in Review

    Mwa ha ha ha, it is December 15 and I am starting to write. This is so much better than November when I started writing the post on December 4. Sigh, that month was insane. (there are affiliate links in here) Week 1 Looking at this, these pictures are totally out of order, but here…

  • 2026 Goals and Memories

    2026 Goals and Memories

    This past year I spent three months updating my blog. One of the things I did was go through and delete a lot of posts, over 200 posts, and consolidate many of them down into a single post for each year for my memories. In the process I learned I really liked the years that…

  • November in Review

    November in Review

    Okay, it’s December 2 and I’m sitting down to write this. That tells you what my November was like. And most of what made my month crazy there are not pictures for and I can’t totally put on here because it involves things that I won’t share publicly. (There are affiliate links in here) Week…

  • Christmas in Iceland

    Christmas in Iceland

    I attempted to recreate Christmas in Iceland, and very quickly discovered I do not have the necessary baking skills.  So this became a slightly less aggressive set of Homeschool Christmas and geography lesson, and instead focused a bit more on the spirit of the activity. Christmas in Iceland So, an Iceland tradition is to make…

  • Gingerbread Man lesson

    Gingerbread Man lesson

    As part of our Christmas in Germany unit, we read The Gingerbread Man. There are so many great copies of this book you can find (I’m somewhat partial to the Jan Brett version), but for this particular unit, since we were studying Germany, I stuck with the original tale; besides, it made a great homeschool…