After nearly a month off from homeschooling, I can say that I’m getting excited about starting school again with the boys. E kept asking me, “Are you ever going to start school again?” It says SPRING BREAK for two weeks. Sounds great, right? Well, we usually do take a whole month off–the month of April– and […]
Intentional Homeschooling
It often feels like life happens, and homeschooling happens, and we are just along for the ride. If there’s one thing I have learned from 13 years of homeschooling it’s that it can’t really just happen. As the old saying goes, if we fail to plan, we plan to fail. We need to be intentional about it. […]
The Special Needs Life
I’m so glad you came to see my new home on the web! If you’ve read me for very long, you know that my sons have some challenges. We daily live with and teach two boys whose brains were drug-affected when they were in their biological mothers’ wombs. Both are affected differently, with varying severity […]
Back to (home)school
Well after my marathon planning day on Saturday, including the 2am bedtime because I wanted to get it ALL written down, I spent Sunday afternoon just looking over my plans and going through the books, again. I wrote it all out after midnight, so I figured the chances that I had messed something up were […]
Do You Plan Like This?
Or am I the only one?