I took my own advice from my last post and changed the youngest’s daily schedule around. Early results are that I’m far less overwhelmed by the amount of work there is to do when I bring the oldest home from college. The youngest is a little shaky with a mid-course change in her routine–she’s so much […]
5 Considerations when a Homeschool Schedule is Just Paper
Blessed are the flexible, for they’ll never be bent out of shape. At least, that’s what I’ve heard. I pride myself on spending gargantuan amounts of time each summer planning our school days–selecting curriculum, thinking through a workable schedule, ordering my own workload in order to take advantage of peaks and valleys in each child’s […]
On and Off the Beaten Path
Wow, what a blog break, huh? It was somewhat unintentional. I knew that the week out of town would involve some heavy travel days, but I had no idea that the nights would be so busy, or that I’d be too zonked to do anything except rest when I wasn’t driving. Plan A was to […]
Imitation, the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Well over a year ago now, I’d taken a survey of our kids’ feelings on what was then our homeschool environment. I also posted my follow-up plan, in which I talked about how elementary school-unfriendly our school was at that time. Given the needs of the oldest, I’d made a very conscious decision to focus […]
Raising Truly Beautiful Girls
We have two daughters. One is a teenager who is imminently, and almost unbelievably at times, becoming a young adult. The other is an 8-year-old who thinks she’s imminently becoming a young adult. They are as different as day and night, but there is territory that ultimately must be covered with any girl at some point […]