Reading aloud is one of my favorite parts of family life and homeschooling. We’ve made many a good memory curled up together with a great book, even during all the years of being interrupted by noisy toddlers and diaper changes. There have been times when my children stared at me when I choked back tears…
We began our 32nd year of homeschooling this week. Our twelfth seventh-grader will be studying The Middle Ages and our tenth senior will be doing concurrent college classes. The ninth-grader in between is excited about a co-op writing class. It’s probably a good thing that homeschooling this long wasn’t on the horizon when we began…
Sometimes we find ourselves with too many evening activities and not enough quiet evenings at home. The kids get in bed later and later, and it starts to pull everyone into a vortex of exhaustion and fast-food dinners on the run. There are seasons when it can’t be helped: sports and performance practices, dress rehearsals,…
Homeschooling while running a home business will look different for everyone, depending on the type of business, goals, homeschool style, and family situation. It’s possible to run a thriving business AND a thriving homeschooling family, but it takes planning, hard work, and vision. Here are seven tips to help you rock your business and keep…
This week our youngest girls began their first homeschool co-op experience (and it was awesome). On the first day of classes I walked the girls through the crowd to find their classrooms and met a few new moms, some of whom told me that they had heard me speak or they read the blog. It…
Our ninth child, Ami Grace, was born on the ninth day of April, weighing exactly nine pounds. She was delivered by her Papa, assisted by her oldest sister, because the midwife was still an hour away. Gracie was preceded by five brothers in a row, so it was quite the novelty to have another girl….