My superhero offered today to teach everyone! I laughingly thought, what will I do with that kind of spare time on a Wednesday morning? The last laugh was definitely on me. It is amazing how much managing a house requires. Not teaching school meant that there was more time to fold a load of […]
Weekly Homeschool Report–April 19, 2009
Finally, some accountability for me! Carol at ThreeLittleLadies has a more formal methodology for listing the weekly reports, and I’ve wanted to do this for a while now. I remember a couple of years back when someone hosted the "Homeschool Open House," and I thought it was such a gift to be able to peek […]
Turning Away from Complaining Spirits
BE WARNED–RAMBLING HERE! I thoroughly enjoy the Word taught at our church home. I’ve been in church all of my life (though church wasn’t always in me), but we have been especially blessed in the last ten years. Like any church, ours has its shortcomings and dysfunction, but the Word, aaahhh, the Word—it’s rich, it’s […]
Mid-April Progress Report
For two weeks now, I’ve planned a weekly report, but I missed out on the Sunday a week ago, and I was determined to not spend Resurrection Sunday on the computer. So, I’ll resign my ambitions to a mid-April (can’t believe I’m saying that!) progress report. There’s a popular book entitled All I […]
God and Goals come before shopping…
for curriculum, that is. This is the time that, for those of us who follow the traditional school year, we begin thinking about tools for next year. It is also the time, for those who are considering homeschooling, to research, to plan, and to pray–hopefully in reverse order. I found this nugget of wisdom somewhere early in our transition […]
Convincing Them to School My Way
‘In the story of every family is the stuff from which both novels and eventually history is written.’ Eleanor Roosevelt In her comment on my 3/25 post, “A Bird’s Eye Look at Next Year,” Sally asked a question that I’ve marinated on most of this week. My response to her would have […]
How We Often Frustrate our Young Adult Children (Part 1)
These words are not my own. They belong to Pastor Matt Bullen, Heritage Family Baptist Church, Texas, who will also speak at the upcoming Texas Home School Coalition (THSC) conference this summer. Yet, as I skimmed a homeschooling newsletter, I found the topic thought-provoking. It is a conversation that I’ve had with my husband, and […]
‘Too much good came out of it to change now’
My superhero forwarded this to me, and wherever you are on your homeschooling journey, I pray that it encourages you as well. Families keep homeschooling despite tough times – USATODAY.com
Lost History, Good Books, and Education with Milton Bradley
Recently, I’ve had several conversations with moms who are “formally” homeschooling, whatever that means, after working with their smaller children for a number of years. Inevitably, the conversation floats to teaching/learning styles—not the style of the children, but the style of the mom. We won’t get too far in instructing our children without some […]
A Bird’s Eye Look at Next Year
I have a number of pictures that I want to post–the dinosaur lapbook for the youngest that became a scrapbooking project for Mom (YIKES!), a picture of her "dinosaur chow," more of the older two’s history pages, including their recent interpretation of Jacob Lawrence’s (Harlem Renaissance artist) artwork series. You’d think with 1 desktop and 2 laptops in […]
A Mom and a Tutor are not Equal
It’s been an uneventful week—as our weeks go—thus far, and I’m almost at a quandary with what to do with my extra five minutes (LOL). Our son’s respiratory system couldn’t keep up with the 40-to-70-degree shifts in the weather, so I wanted to keep him home from dance, but by Tuesday, he was feeling […]
On Birthdays, Indulgences, and Praying in a Circle
It’s about 4 in the morning and I couldn’t sleep, even after going through my circle of prayer—the circle that normally finds me snoring before I get past our community. I think I’ve posted the circle of prayer before, but it’s worth a repeat. I learned it as a middle-of-the-night-and-I-can’t-get-to-sleep-so-I’ll-fight-the-devil technique: 1) I pray for me 2) […]