It’s funny how much of a home educator’s emotion can become tied into the state of the homeschool environment. I am sure that, at least in part, this connection has everything to do with the amount of time and energy we pour into curriculum, lesson plans, and all matters education. Personally, I find that, if […]
9 Ways to Rest and Restore
“If mothers could learn to do for themselves what they do for their children when these are overdone, we should have happier households. Let the mother go out to play! If she would have the courage to let everything go when life becomes too tense, and just take a day, or half a day, out […]
A Spirit of Excellence
As I write, we have two days of school left in this semester. We have truly been on the wind-down, physically, and perhaps even more mentally. Dad’s home for two weeks, which means the biggest kid in the house walks around frolicking and being a fun-loving distraction to the whole house. He’s also been the substitute teacher this week, making the […]
Savoring Life’s Amazement and Wonder
One of the things we’ve been blessed to do over our 20 years together is to travel. Sometimes our trips have been semi-grand vacations, but more often, they’ve been treks through backwoods places and country roads as we hop in the car with Dad while he visits customers. Inevitably as we ride, we always laugh […]
How to Make Friends in 2012
Have you ever looked at your spouse and wondered what on earth you have in common? My husband is an extrovert; I am an introvert. When I worked in corporate America, a key component of my job involved a study of “type,” and how various traits and perspectives could be used to make people work […]