The Grass isn’t Greener
I heard a quote recently that made me smile: “The grass on the other side of the fence might be greener but it still has to be mowed!” I love this! It sums up a…
Category: Day to Day
Just the stuff that happens as we go through our day to day routine. . .
What Every Parent Wants to Hear
As parents we often question the decisions we make. Homeschooling has been a pretty epic example of this in action. From the hours we spent debating, praying, and wondering about whether we could, would, should…
OMG, it’s a Butterfly Paci!
When I was about 11 (hundred) months pregnant with our first baby, we were sitting in a church service behind a young couple holding their sweet, 3-month old baby girl. The baby was sleeping soundly…
What we’re NOT doing
Lots of people have been asking me what we’ve been doing lately and how the homeschooling is going. While I blogged a few weeks ago about how I really thought it was too soon to…
Things that made me happy today . . .
(Just in case anyone thinks all we do is homeschool!) My son and his peeps. Aren’t they adorable?!!! I’m sure they’d rather be almost any other adjective, but the giant #8 on top of his…
Homeschooling in the Forest
We’re all familiar with the saying, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” What I’m wondering, is how many other homeschooling families…
Because it’s different . . . and that’s NOT (always) bad!
First of all, I need to address a fact that most of us are familiar with. Kids are amazing!! Plain and simple. Their seemingly endless capacity to adapt to any and every new circumstance never…
Day 1 down . . . 179 to go!
Day 1 is down. I’m trying to take it all in stride – especially the part where I asked my young students what their favorite part of the day was. Two of them answered with…
It’s all about the clothes, anyway!
So the night before our “back-to-school” day, there were some discussions about what outfits the kids would choose for their first day. Everyone knows that school itself is irrelevant, because the outfit is what matters…
What I’ve been doing this summer . . .
Are we there yet? The dog days of summer have arrived and set up camp here in the deep south. It’s hot. Really hot. And at least in this house, it’s making us all a…