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I really enjoyed reading both responses to your questions here! They just show - each family is different! Even if two families have the same number of children who are the same exact ages, HOD placement can be very different. Not to mention each stage in life is very different! Placement in HOD can...

Jpauls - Just loved reading you and your 3 girls are loving your first year with HOD! CTC is such a Christ-centered, God-honoring, intriguing way to teach the ancients, so glad your 3 girls are enjoying it! I am sure you will love RTR just as much. Congrats on making HOD work for your family and for...

Heather - congratulations on cruising into your last 5 weeks of the homeschool year! HOORAY! You can feel so good about all that has been accomplished despite some pretty major things happening in life! I too have found that during some of life's hardest challenges, our sons have been able to rise t...

Thanks, Lisa! We are excited about these projects and yet fully recognize God being in control of when they exactly will come to fruition! We look forward to seeing Him choose and seeing His master plan (which is always best) unfold! Thanks for being excited about them yet understanding of the timin...

A Charlotte Mason curriculum brings a treasure of great value to the door of your very own home. One only needs to read a mere page or two of Charlotte Mason's Home Education series to glimpse the enduring worth of a Charlotte Mason education. Nearly every sentence causes me to pause, ponder, and ma...

Have you ever considered skip counting as a math help? As soon as our kiddos start learning about multiplication, we teach them to skip count.  They learn to do this by singing along with songs. Our boys learned songs for the 2's on up through the 12's. For example, for the 2's they learned to count...

Oh, I love your daughter’s watercolor painting! That turned out so well! Her painting is lovely, and so is her writing! That is a keeper! The Egyptian honey bread was such a hit at our house that the recipe is copied down and hanging inside one of our kitchen cupboards still to this day (and my last...

Thanks, Lisa! I have enjoyed this thread as well! Congrats on your oldest getting married - so exciting! We had such fun with Cole and Morgan's wedding, but yes - it was busy! All our sons were in the wedding, so that was pretty special. So neat to think of your oldest finding God's special chosen s...

We have projects in multiple guides Carrie is working on right now. All of them with the goal of making the user experience better - better for the parent and better for the child. We will share updates on the projects within the next month, so stay tuned!

In Christ,
Julie

That text is written by Amy Pak, so Carrie did not write it. Amy is the artist and also the author of the timeline entries, You can certainly contact her, if you'd like, but this is her standard entry - she didn't make it solely for HOD, so we cannot make a change to it. We are thrilled to carry her...

Rice - sounds like you have a great plan for pairing up your oldest two coming up! I know many Canadians add some Canadian books at some point. Did you find some good resources? I am always getting asked that by families I help from Canada - I have a few suggestions noted, but I'd love to hear anyth...

RSmith - too cute your son connected Danny Meadow Mouse to another book about little animals! Those connections our kiddos make are evidence of learning just becoming a way of life with HOD. The activities Carrie wrote were always favorites in LHFHG for our sons too. I was glad they had reasons to m...

Thanks for sharing these pics Julie! I was intrigued when CookFamilyHomeschool mentioned Crusades and Clues. It sounds like something will enjoy immensely and RTR is our guide next year with my daughter so I am excited! You are going to love the Crusades and clues history project! Whichever son was...

Okay, I got all nostalgic remembering our Crusades in RTR, had to find those pics I snapped and share them... https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/jj8/happymomto3/RTR/.highres/IMG_1151.jpg?width=590&height=370&fit=bounds https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/jj8/happymomto3/RTR/.highres/IMG_1159....

CookFamilyHomeschool - RTR's Astronomy study was so good - loved marveling at the universe and our Lord the Creator! Our sons stargazed with more knowledge after RTR's science. Sounds like your second son is learning to love history, and Peril and Peace was such a good book. So much depth there! The...