Homemaking 101

Spending most of my childhood playing sports and training to be an attorney, I paid little attention to homemaking. Since this is so central to my vocation, we spent the week learning together. We made a Homemaking 101 binder with tabs for Family, Cleaning, Cooking, Organizing, and Decorating. Slick Slack (6) loved this. She learned 24 steps to cleaning a bathroom, a compilation of tips from these blogs, my own preferences, and her style:

- Fly lady
- Confessions of a homeschooler
- Amongst lovely things
- Starr Family Blog 


She baked her first cake from scratch, a chocolate cake in honor of her friend, Luke, and her godfather, as it was the feast day of St. Luke, adding a secret ingredient - sweet potatoes from a baby food jar.  It was edible and cute. The secret healthy ingredient wasn't discovered. We are using "A Year with God: Celebrating the Liturgical Year" from Catholic Heritage Curricula to understand what is means to live the liturgical year. As a convert, I'm looking for any suggestions you all may have.

Our first full year homeschooling, we are trying to find balance. Homemaking had been taking a backseat to memory work, presentations, math, etc., but this week gave me a newfound focus. The smiles all around me help me realize that learning happens in myriad creative ways. 

Good night, ladies.

Labels

Here are some ideas for labels, so that future generations of CCC moms (or, us... when we have memorized so much information we can no longer remember anything else) can look for helpful tips.  If your post doesn't fit into any of these, no label is fine, too.  Comment below with further suggestions if there is something we might post about regularly I missed.

Homemaking
Pre-school
History
Geography
Poetry
Grammar
Music
Science
Math
Timeline (for the videos of the signs)
Scripture
Catechesis
Teaching Memory Work
Other Homeschooling (in case someone wants to post about their phonics or math ideas, etc.)
Year One
Year Two
Year Three

So, as an example, if I found a great history resource for Ancient History, I might write a post up about it and label it History, Year One.  Down the road another mom could click on the label "Year One" and get all our notes and ideas.