The modern-day problem, I am convinced, with embarking on any new craft or would-be obsession, is the ability to see what other people are doing via the internet. With everyone else living their best life online, it’s easy to say, “Forget it.” It happened when I started Bible journaling; it happened when I re-started gardening; […]
My “We Homeschool, Too” series featuring families who homeschool in a non-traditional environment (i.e., something other than a 2-parent home where mom is the primary educator) will, unfortunately, fall short of the initial vision. It’s okay; people get busy and have other priorities. In the meantime, you can see the previous posts using these links: […]
‘We cannot hear from God if we do not know what His voice sounds like. Reading the Word of God (the Bible) helps us learn how He thinks, how He talks, and how He walks.’ Isis Smalls, Beauty in the Making In my last post, I outlined our plans and intended curriculum choices for […]
Bleh: an expression of boredom […]
I left off from my first post about raising daughters and healing generational wounds with a question: So, where am I after all of this processing? The word “intentional” is used so frequently in today’s vernacular until it almost sounds cliché. Yet, being intentional has a sense of urgency to it, and for certain, […]
My continued post on “Raising our Daughters” is in the queue, such that it is (lol), but there was such a positive response to the first of the “We Homeschool, Too” series posts until I thought introducing the next guest might be higher priority. I was thrilled at the numbers of women who were encouraged […]
I stumbled across a random article from online magazine Madame Noire while scrolling through my Facebook timeline a few days back. It is not a site that I subscribe to nor would I take interest in much of the content, so I figure I must in some way have matched their demographic. It had to be […]
This is the first of a series of posts I call, “We Homeschool, Too,” written for those families who might be considering homeschooling, but sitting on the proverbial fence because they don’t see familial situations that match their own. Additionally, though many would-be homeschoolers face similar dilemmas, I believe that because of the history of […]
With the click of a button and the closing of a book, our school year ended–at least for a brief time. Visions of next year are dancing in my head, but with nothing firm yet, I will perhaps update my curriculum page later. In the meantime, I would love to show you our garden’s progress. […]
Right before our oldest left for college, I thought to blog my lessons learned in how to prepare as a homeschool parent for the sake of those behind me. When I entered college (from public school), others were an integral part of my preparation. In contrast, I can safely say with my high school/ homeschool […]
It’s a conversation we have with the youngest almost monthly. Though being homeschooled is increasingly cool as it takes on the symbol of “what the most dedicated artists do,” she is convinced that there is magic on the other side of that yellow school bus, and she is the only kid missing out. “Why do […]
I spent days agonizing over the right words to convey my excitement, only to come up lacking. So, hopefully the abundance of pictures (with more to come, I am sure) and related tales is enough to express a certain pleasure that spring is finally here–maybe(?) Our humble beginnings of a spring garden resulted from a […]