Springtime is muddy and messy and even cold, some days. Kind of like homeschooling! So how do we pay attention to the green stems of possibility? It all depends on what we choose to focus on! And…

My youngest just got her driver’s license! Here’s a description of a recent Monday at our house, a homeschool day with a 16-year-old. A Homeschool Day in the Life (with a 16-year-old who just got her driver’s license)…

In reflecting back on the year 2015,  I am so very grateful to YOU, my readers, for being here. For reading, commenting, asking questions and walking alongside me on this adventure of Waldorf homeschooling. To each and…

I’ve always thought of our homeschooling year as Labor Day to Memorial Day. For over twenty years, that’s been our main rhythm. As my children have become teens, we’ve often had wrapping up to do into June,…

Really, no matter what resources or packaged curriculum we may choose to buy, we each create our own curriculum because we will never use a curriculum exactly as is. We aren’t even meant to, actually, because curriculum…

Every year at the end of April, I start to feel anxious that we haven’t done enough in our homeschooling this year. I think back to what I’d planned last summer and fall. Somehow what we’ve done…

Here’s a description of a homeschool day in the life with just a 15-year old. When your last child is the only one still at home, it can be almost like homeschooling an only. Except not. And…

I love this time of reflection during winter break. Among other things, I’ve been reflecting on this blog. I find it really satisfying to look back over 2014 and to realize that last year at this time,…

I feel scattered and a bit crabby as we transition to our fall schedule. It’s just all a bit unsettling. I will be teaching a high school course this year of Composition & Literature with some World…