Looking Back on Homeschooling As I was turning over the soil in our garden last weekend, I was thinking about all the living we’ve done in this backyard! We’ve had a wooden climbing structure, sandbox that turned…
Festivals and Saint’s Days offer us the opportunity to mark the turning of the seasons and to connect with our children. I hope this little story for Saint Patrick’s Day makes you smile. It’s a fun one…
Homeschooling Simplified As homeschoolers, sometimes we find that we need to scale back to homeschooling simplified. Whether it’s because of a global pandemic, a sick family member, a new baby, or mama’s health…sometimes life brings the unexpected….
4 Ways to Lighten Your Homeschool Mindset Today, I want to talk about mindset because how we think and what we believe about the world affects what we think, how we feel, act and react. Mindset is…
What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About Teaching and Learning This pandemic year has been so challenging for parents and teachers and children alike! But from my vantage point, the pandemic has taught us about teaching and…
Create a Simple Morning Routine for a Strong Start to Your Homeschooling Day If you feel like you’re giving and giving all day long as a homeschooling mom, with very little time for yourself, then now…
3 Ways to Build a Homeschooling Community I’d love to share with you 3 ways to find and build a homeschooling community. At the start of my homeschooling journey, I worried a lot about how I would…
Homeschooling is Really More Art Than Science The unique way a homeschooling lesson unfolds is a magical combination of you, the homeschooling parent, and your child. Along with the material you’re teaching, the environment on any given…
Episode 4: Why Are We Homeschooling? How to Write Your Family Vision If a friend or neighbor were to ask you, “Why did you choose to homeschool?”…how would you answer that question? A homeschool vision statement can…
Episode 3: Relax Into Your Homeschool Rhythm Rhythm is really all about organizing your homeschooling day. Think about music. Music is organized around repeated motifs that the listener anticipates. Rhythm and repetition allow you to relax into…
