It’s the most wonderful time of the year. I love the holiday season. There’s just something magical about Christmas. And one of the biggest parts of Christmas is the sights. The holiday decorations. Every year, I have big dreams of turning my home into something out of a magazine. To…
Thankful for the Hard Times? How can you be thankful for painful and difficult periods in life? But there’s beauty in the hard times, and I’m grateful.
When you homeschool, is there ever a time where you might choose public school? I chose public high school for my oldest. And here’s why.
Time management is something I’ve always struggled with, since childhood. Here’s the tools for time management I use to help me stay aware.
Homeschool fourth grade is a transition year. We’ve mastered the foundational skills, and so now I challenge my students to stretch and grow.
Homeschool second grade is the last year of “early elementary”. We get all our skills firmly in place, as a foundation for expanding our learning.
I’m open about being a single parent. I divorced my ex husband in 2014, after years of domestic violence. Leaving my marriage was not a hasty decision, but one I planned for 6 months. Ending it entirely took a year, and I left plenty of room for the process to stop…
It’s been a whole year since my Summer Surprise arrived. This last year has been challenging, stretching and exhausting. But it’s also been fun, in many ways. When it all started… When I found out I was pregnant in the fall of 2016, to say I was shocked was an…
Comparison can turn into a competition I was sitting beside another parent at my daughter’s swim lesson. We chatted briefly, and she mentioned she had 4 children, including twins. She smiled, like all moms of many do, and said that sometimes it was hard, but she loved it anyway. I…
Finally Taken Seriously: Getting a special needs assessment. She was almost 5 years old when we finally landed in a pediatrician’s office that seemed to actually take us seriously. I spent a good 30 minutes describing her history and what we’d tried so far, giving him copies of the reports…
