Embrace Your Homeschool Without Comparison | In Due Season Vol 1.4
There is no shortage of great advice out there, but the best advice is to find what is working well for you and maximize it
Honor Your Chid’s Gifts and Interests | In Due Season Volume 1.3
Let me share three unique ways we show love by honoring our child’s unique gifts and interests in our school life. I keep the focus on each individual child and their interests, and avoid a school day where I am the only one winning I have a son that loves to win. My son is deeply committed to…
Show Love By Giving Time | In Due Season Vol. 1.2
We show love by giving our time. [Tweet “Time is our most precious and finite resource”] Time. There is no more to be had, no place to buy an extra tomorrow. As homeschool parents we have left jobs, careers and opportunities behind to give instruction time to your child. We calculated and intentionally structured in our…
Focusing on The Players | In Due Season Vol 1.1
I can identify the exact moment when a board game stops being fun, can’t you? You hear the giggles lessen and the arguments increase. If you intervene you know where the focus will turn; the score. As soon as winning and losing becomes the primary focus, the kids forget about the fun they were having. [Tweet “To have your focus…
Showing Love in Your Homeschool | In Due Season Volume 1.0
What if the middle of your homeschooling years could be as exciting as that first one? In Due Season is a series for the long middle stretch before you. Beginnings are great, and planning for the end is satisfying, but the middle can be a long, winding, uncharted road. This series is full of weekly encouragement…
This Summer, Say “Yes”
Do your ever get an invitation that you really want to accept, but you have far too many chores to really allow your self the luxury of an outing? This is how I was feeling a few weeks ago. Summer should be relaxing compared to the life we live while homeschooling 10 kids, but it…
Breaking the Surface,the 3rd Wave of Motherhood
Have you ever felt like you were just holding your breath, waiting to beat out the clock? Motherhood has hit me in many waves. We race. We hold our breath, but eventually we break the surface and swim our own channels.
You Can’t Have It All…but you can have the best life for you.
Your best life is the one you create with intentions, not the one your are forced into because of circumstances.
Giving the gift of Tech Fearlessly this Christmas
How Do You Choose? Choosing the right tablet can seem daunting. There is no shortage of options for giving tech, but my first priority is for my kids to be safe online. The technology is in place at a price we can all afford Right now Kindle Fire, this powerful little tablet, is available from…
The art of building skills when Dad was not a “fix-it” guy and your stuff is broke
My husbands Father and and Mother divorced when he was just a year old, though his Dad remained a part of his life, the passing of skills that normally happens in the garage was interrupted by distance. At 10, I acquired a Dad by marriage. The poor guy was 26 with a new wife, a teenager,…
Stop Telling My Kids Sex is a Sin
The world has made sex cheap and unsatisfying by reducing it to the level of skin. Please tell my kids that we are so much more than skin.
Second Wind Parenting: Surviving the Quirks of Life with Toddlers and Teens
I am in this strange place where my older kids are independent and I still have little ones underfoot. I realized the other day none of my “littles” have never been to the Apple Orchard. An event I looked forward to 13 years ago with my first batch of enthusiastic toddlers. Alas, I am old,…
When events with kids are not fun
It was not for the thrill of seeing how long it would take for my skin to crack open and peel. It was not even because we love badly performed minor league baseball. No. We sat in the blazing shadeless inferno that we call the Iowa Cubs stadium because as parents, that is what we…
Ahoy, moonlight house keepers!
I just swept my house, in the dark. It needed to be done. The kids needed to go to bed. The place was really quite a mess. The kind of mess that used to make my husband a little panicky, but he has been around us for a while and knows the difference between literal…
Mothering, a matter of the heart.
I’ll admit, sometimes I get a little irked. Please hear me out to the end though, and hear me with you heart. I see that “Nurses Appreciation Week” is coming up, as well as “Teachers Appreciation Week” and I know there is a celebration of Administrative Assistants that may be stretched a week as well,…