Several months ago I read an amazing book, one of the best homeschool/motherhood books that I have ever read. The book is Mere Motherhood by Cindy Rollins. I heard about it from several bloggers and instagrammers and went searching for it. Suddenly “Mere Motherhood” and “Morning Time” were buzzwords on all the homeschool blogs and I had to see what they were talking about. I remember having a hard time finding the book because it was not available on any of the sites that I usually buy books from (it is now available on Amazon).  I finally found it here and discovered that there is a companion book “A Handbook to Morning Time” I ordered them both. I loved the book, it has become one of the books that I recommend to other moms when they ask me about homeschooling and how to get started, or for advice on what books they should read. I also found the handbook to be very helpful, it includes a sample schedule; suggestions for songs, bible verses, and poetry to memorize; and suggestions for how to get started with Shakespeare and Plutarch; book suggestions; and more.

We started doing Morning Time as part of our day, usually right after breakfast, I will start reading as the kids finish eating, and they will clear their dishes and pull out coloring books, handwriting, or math worksheets to work on as they listen. We LOVE Morning Time!! If we forget or our morning gets busy my kids will pull out the Morning Time box at lunch and ask if we can do “Afternoon Time” instead. Morning Time is a great way to start our day, a good way to get in some extra read-aloud time and do our history, art or science lessons as a family before we separate to do individual math and language arts lessons (we haven’t started on Shakespeare or Plutarch yet, but I plan to soon). I will write some more about our selections for Morning Time in another post.

A few weeks ago I discovered that Cindy Rollins has a podcast through the Circe Institute and I have really enjoyed listening to that as well.