Let’s talk about homeschool and real life. There are going to be bad homeschool days, sooner rather than later. You wonder what in the world is going on and why you ever thought this (homeschooling) was a good idea. Anyway […]
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6 Ways to Start the Homeschool Year
07/10/2020
We’ve schooled through the summer this year. We don’t always do that, but due to a unique set of circumstances, we felt the need to take only a short break after the spring semester and keep going. It makes the […]
3 Reasons to Homeschool and 3 Reasons to Not
07/05/2020
Every summer we evaluate our homeschooling journey, our goals for our children, and our plans for our next year of school. We think about reasons to homeschool again. The inevitable question is always, “Should we homeschool another year?” Every year our […]
My NOT Normal New Year’s Resolution
01/04/2020
I’ve been known to make (and break) a few New Year’s resolutions. This year I’m only going to make one resolution: to be NOT normal. Huh? Aren’t we supposed to be normal? Isn’t that what we’re supposed to groom our […]
How We Found a Family Christmas
12/10/2019
Eleven years ago today, I had a life-changing experience. This one event altered the way we celebrate our family Christmas. We realized all the sparkle and glitz and gifts and shopping and spending were like Solomon’s proclamation in Ecclesiastes 2:11, […]
Christmas Dreams Aren’t About the Gifts
12/07/2019
Christmas is a mere three weeks away. If you haven’t been stashing extra cash for Christmas gifts before now, you’re probably on the verge of hyperventilating. Let’s be real. You’re not going to suddenly come into a fistful of money […]
7 Ways to Avoid Christmas Stress
11/30/2019
Over our twenty-plus years of marriage and birth of five children, we have developed a certain philosophy on holidays, in general, and Christmases, in particular. What we started with as newlyweds doesn’t much resemble where we are now. That’s how […]
Skip the Christmas Panic
11/27/2019
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I admit that I once was a Black Friday shopper. I never knocked anyone over or got in a fist fight over the last Blu-ray player, but I strategically planned my shopping to score items on my Christmas list. I […]
Homeschoolers, as a rule, are a thrifty lot. We educate children on a homeschool budget that is about .01% of a public school’s budget. Of course, Our teacher and principal don’t get paid, and we don’t get subsidized curricula. Many […]