Encouragement

My best friend is slowly circling the idea of pulling her kids from school and starting to homeschool. So…the texts are starting to roll in about what I think about various homeschool curriculums. I felt so tired reading those texts as I remembered my first round of exhausting research into the world of homeschool curriculum….

Are you a conservative, introverted woman who wears jean jumpers, no make up, and white keds? I hate to tell you, but I don’t know what you are because I’ve never met a homeschool mom who looks like that. Yes, there are stereotypes (and we like to laugh about them – most of the time),…

Are you clawing through your first year of homeschooling? Wondering if you’re going to make it? Will your homeschool be successful? We are over halfway through our third year of homeschooling now, and I have been in your shoes. I didn’t know if I was crazy for thinking I could homeschool, how I was going…

If you are reading this, then you’re probably a homeschool mom who already knows she has issues with self care. You just want to confirm it and maybe find out how bad it is. Self care is a problem for most moms – it is a draining, sacrificial job to raise children! Being a homeschool…

Confession: Somebody cried in our homeschool this week and SPOILER ALERT: it wasn’t me…this year 🙂 It wasn’t our preschooler. And it wasn’t our kindergartener. It was our 8-year-old. Wait, Aren’t Tears a Sign of Homeschool Failure? I used to think that. The first time my daughter started to cry during a homeschool lesson, I…