A new year promises a new beginning. Just the thought makes me smile because, y’all, I need one. I love being with my kids every day, teaching them and learning with them, but I have to be honest and say that we didn’t exactly finish last year on a high homeschool note. If Christmas holidays were the finish line, we barely limped across it. There were several reasons that had ...
Homeschooling
No Matter What They Call You, There’s Just One Name You Need
Has it really been four months since I last posted here? Good grief. I do apologize for the absence. In the mean time, my blog had a bit of an identity crisis (much like its author, I guess) so I have done a little redesign and figure that if the kids can get back to school I can get back to blogging. We're busy. I'm busy. Everyone's busy, and to be honest, it's easy to be overwhelmed ...
10 Ways to Widen Your Worldview
We live in small-town Mississippi so one of the things I have to be intentional about is helping expand my children's worldview. It's easy to forget the big, wide world is out there and tempting to think it's pretty much the same as here (or worse, to think it should be). So, with our homeschool curriculum and with other parts of our lives, we try to make sure they have ...
Grace to Grow
Her math work is divided into brightly-colored sections because if she's going to have to do math, it might as well be colorful, right? Of course, she spent nearly as much time creating the pretty page as she did actually working the problems, but I can live with that. Sometimes, I have to remind myself that when I'm teaching my children, I'm teaching individually-created human beings who ...