Welcome M.O.B moms!

This post is part of the annual M.O.B. Society Link Up.  So....welcome M.O.B. moms and all the rest of my readers!  For those of you that are new to M and J in a Nutshell, M is mom (me!), and J is JP (my son).  I'm a single mom, homeschooling a 13 year old boy, wrangling a boxer/bulldog/possibly-terrier-too dog, and working a couple of different jobs to keep us going.

M and J in a Nutshell is where I share whatever comes to mind!  I try to focus on homeschooling and single parenting, but you will also find recipes, study aides, and a lot more on this blog.  Occasionally I post about my Etsy shop, and sometimes I vent about our horrible apartment (want to help us move? See THIS POST for details).  We live just outside New York City, and thus I also blog about our adventures in Manhattan from time to time.

The dog, Rowdy, thinks she should help JP with his science schoolwork.

We are eclectic homeschoolers meaning that we do regular lessons, but we pull from a variety of resources instead of using a standard curriculum.  In some areas we also lean towards unschooling.  We also have food allergies, so all of our recipes are dairy and soy free, and many are also either vegetarian or vegan.

We love to hike, take walks with our dog, explore Manhattan, learn about science and history, do art projects, and read.  Legos are a favorite toy, even with my son in his first year as a teenager, and we love pretty much all of the games made by Cranium (lots of different games for lots of different ages!).

You can also find us on Facebook HERE...
or on Twitter HERE...
or on Pinterest HERE...
or at our Etsy shop HERE...
or on our other blog, Life of This Kind, HERE.

Some of my favorite posts from this blog are:

• Carschooling
• How I manage to work and homeschool
• Piet Mondrian art lesson
• My response to "Loneliness of Genius"
• Reading Encouragement

My most popular posts are:

• Ancient Greece - Part II
• Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso art history resources
• How we homeschool
• and another How we homeschool

Thanks for checking us out!  Now, I'm off to visit others from the M.O.B blog hop!

4th of July - the dog was scared and stayed in my lap the whole evening...she's too big to be a lap dog!

Just as I clicked the camera, the dog shot forward to sniff it!

Then, JP wanted to copy the dog...silly boy!