My heart’s been broken, strengthened, healed, and broken again many times through these homeschooling years. Homeschooling has been a heart journey towards learning, living, and loving each other. I put together an acrostic based on the word, HEART, because the lessons I’ve learned from these five words have helped me love my family better.…
My eight year old son entered a sport cake decorating contest and the boy with the best cake got a basketball. I didn’t have time to bake the cake and so I picked up one from the bakery. For the decorations, I bought donuts and cookies for my son to make baseballs, basketballs, and soccer…
Some prefer spring and still others summer and I know there are a few that prefer winter, but I prefer fall above all. The crisp days and blue, blue skies fill my heart with child-like wonder. The colors of the trees as the they make the transition from green to yellow to gold…
Education is more interesting when we implement activities that feed our children’s souls. This is the beauty of homeschooling. So how do we help our kids discover their interests? This is how – We spend hours upon hours watching and listening. We explore life together by going places and meeting others. We provide stimulating material…
This blog post is an Amazon Affiliate. This picture is a great example of organization and disorganization existing in the same place. On a shelf inside our homeschool cupboard, sits this untidy line-up of very organized tool boxes. I’m sort of addicted to them, so I’m sure this won’t be all I ever make.…
My family of young homeschoolers (kids ages 4, 3, and 2), just got home from an eleven day road trip. Out of the eleven days, eight of them were spent driving at least part of the day. We stayed in seven hotels, drove through seven states, and visited great-grandparents on both sides of the…
Do you struggle when your kids have a hard time learning something? Well you shouldn’t. (and I’m working on not letting it get the best of me) I use to emotionally drain myself from worry when my son or daughter struggled with a lesson until I realized that my kids need to be challenged. Challenges…
I began this homeschooling journey 13 years ago with hopeful trepidation in my heart. I knew we were embarking on a journey few were on, but God was calling us to this journey so we began trusting him to make a way. My oldest is beginning her senior year this fall and she is…
We want our kids to grow in their academic skills. It’s exciting to mark off a finished lesson. Both parent and child enjoy finishing a work book or an assignment. It feels good to successfully complete a project. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s our job to set goals for our…
I went into parenting thinking that I had all the answers. It only took a week with a newborn for me to realize that I did not know it all. When my kids were toddlers I went to bed most nights feeling overwhelmed. The preschool years got easier in some ways and more difficult in…
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