Is your life an endless succession of small things? Do you let the minor things become the majors? Marriage is major. Parenting is major. Faith is major. Homeschooling is major. But each of these major things is comprised of so many smaller parts that it’s easy to get caught up in every. Single. Thing. The […]
Homeschool Mom Failure
What did you do today? “Nothing,” comes the reply. Nothing? “Well, we did school stuff.” Ah, okay. Dad comes home from work and tries to engage the kids. I know my family is not the only one who has this conversation on a regular basis, and that I’m not the only homeschool mom out there […]
Education is Everywhere
Homeschooling isn’t the be-all, end-all of education. Shocking? I hope not. It is not healthy to bow down at the altar of homeschooling. When you do, eventually you will be in for a shock. I know- I’ve been there. I am a homeschool mom. I’ve taught my own kids for 18 years and if there’s […]
Self-Care for the Homeschool Mom
Who takes care of the homeschool mom? Homeschool moms care for the children, the meals, the laundry, the housework, appointments, and are the taxi driver to and from to and from point a to point B. Mommas take care of everyone around them, and yet the one person most often neglected when it comes to […]
How We Started Homeschooling
Homeschooling wasn’t even on my radar when I became a mother. Soon after becoming a mom I divorced. Two years after that I remarried and inherited 2 stepkids, and then I was just trying to keep my head above water with two toddlers who were 6 months apart, and a precocious 5 year old. I […]
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