This morning was fraught with tears as we continued to pick up dropped studies from last week. We stripped down to just a few things last week as we buckled down to pull everything together for our state’s homeschool Mid-Year Refresher and Leadership Conference that Rich and I organized. Our theme for the Leadership Conference was […]
Inspired Learning
Books and Your Budget: Deciding when to buy or borrow…
Books, books, books. Oh how I love reading great books. When I think about reading to my kids I can’t help but think about all of the benefits. In fact, I recently read and pinned an excellent post on why it’s important to still read aloud to your teens from Susan at Homeschooling Hearts and […]
Looking Back: Top Posts from 2013
Hello everyone. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I don’t feel like blogging and I don’t feel like reading blogs in December, so I decided to step away from the computer for the last half of December. It was a lovely break, despite being plagued by sickness that didn’t seem to want to relinquish it’s […]
Ditch the Guilt and Embrace Real-Life Learning
Sometimes as homeschool moms, we can have a tendency to heap guilt on ourselves. We want to do it all and do it every moment. Sometimes we can forget that there are seasons and that for the homeschool family, those “seasons” might look different than for those in school. Our seasons will probably even […]
Power of the Imagination
It was a crisp Thanksgiving afternoon when my two young sons came bounding up to me as I joined them in my in-laws backyard. Eyes shining bright they each grab a hand and pull me forward. “Pretend, mom. Just pretend, ok?” And then they reveal THE lamp post. This is no ordinary lamp post. Long […]
A Life Style of Learning – 25 years later…
I still remember the day, some 25 years ago or so when my mom taught us the envelope system. Every time we made some money, we’d set aside 10% for tithe and giving. I don’t remember if I had a defined way to split up savings and spending money, except that I preferred the idea […]