My New Kentucky Home

A blog about faith and family, home and homeschooling.

Easy Cheesy Slow-Cooker Cauliflower Soup

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  Easy cooking is not my strong point.  No, somehow I find a way to complicate even the simplest recipes, which usually means I am in the kitchen much longer than I would like to be. But it doesn't help that we avoid processed foods like the plague, meaning I cook mostly … [Read more...]

The Gender Identity Crisis I Never Knew I Had

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I wanted to be a boy.  I mean, I really wanted to be a boy.  In fact, though I was told again and again that God didn't make mistakes, I was pretty sure He had messed up by making me a girl. I didn't like dolls.  I wasn't into princesses.  I hated wearing dresses and having my … [Read more...]

Lies People Believe About Homeschooling Moms

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  You would think the word would have gotten out by now.  I mean, homeschooling has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years, so it's not like it's some new and mysterious movement people are just now learning exists. And yet I continue running into these silly misconceptions … [Read more...]

Do-It-Yourself Book Snowballs

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While I'm trying very hard to acclimate myself to the world of e-books, there are few things I find warmer and lovelier than an old-fashioned hard-copy book.  I love the look.  I love the feel.  I even love the smell!  And the more the pages yellow and become dog-eared, both … [Read more...]

Disciplining MOM with the Rubber Band Method

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  So you may have read the post by Jackie Masek at LJSkool about disciplining children via the rubber band method.  And just to head off any misunderstanding here if you haven't read it:  We're not talking about snapping little kids' wrists with rubber bands when they misbehave. … [Read more...]

Encouraging Your Children Toward Good Books

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Charlotte Mason called it "twaddle".  And twaddle is a real word, though not one most people are familiar with, and certainly not one people, (at least those outside of the CM homeschooling community,) use very often. But Dictionary.com defines twaddle as, "trivial, feeble, silly, or … [Read more...]

6 Things that DON’T Make Me a Bad Mom

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  I'm pretty sure most of us would agree:  You don't have to look very hard to find examples of bad parenting.   But what I find frustrating sometimes is that often really, really bad parenting is overlooked or somehow excused provided there's some social or economic … [Read more...]

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