5 Steps Toward a Homeschool Plan that Works

  If you have ever worked with or even seen a builder, you know the importance of a plan.   The written plan is the point of communication between all parties regarding what results are expected.   The plan is a roadmap.   The plan lends focus when life begins to unravel.    Finally, the plan can be used […]

The Value of Not Planning (too much)

Right after I posted my last post, I ran across this quote while reading someone else’s blog.   Miss Mason speaks here to the heart of not over-planning: “They must be left to themselves for a good part of the day to take in their own impressions of nature’s beauty. There’s nothing worse than children being […]

How (Not) to Do It All

It feels as if so much has gone on in the past few weeks until it’s difficult to get my head around it, much less articulate all of it on paper.   Somewhere in the last month, 1)      My husband changed jobs 2)      My job changed, forcing me out of my comfort zone and into new […]

Planners and planning

Trying to type a new blog post while cleaning up my “blog debris” post-upgrade is like deciding to dust and rearrange the family room furniture while setting out the gallons of new paint.   (Yes, I’ve been there, too).   I’ve spent much of the morning re-categorizing posts that got lumped into my miscellaneous file, “the Candy […]