I've been at this homeschooling gig for 15 plus years. After a few turns around the sun our years started taking a very predictable course. Maybe you can relate. August - I get caught up in the school supply sales (love me some paper products! LOL) and rah-rah of a new school year about to … Continue reading The ups and downs of my homeschooling year
Daily Life
They all rolled over and one fell out…
Well hey hey, look at that I'm actually blogging. 😀 The upcoming start of a new school year has energized me to want to blog again. I finally feel like I have some things worth sharing! So much emotional turmoil over the summer kind of left me tongue tied (I'm sure I'll talk about it … Continue reading They all rolled over and one fell out…
I’m reading an actual book!
I picked up Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage {affiliate} at the library last week (along with a bagful of other books you know I will probably renew for 9 weeks and then try to panic-read when they are due in 4 days - this does not bode well for my reading challenge!). I have wanted to read this … Continue reading I’m reading an actual book!
Things I’m loving right now
I love the feeling inside me that wells up when I find something that I just adore. It makes me so happy to think about or be with that thing. Is that a little twisted? I have an inkling that that feeling should be reserved for people, but most people don't make me feel as … Continue reading Things I’m loving right now
Reboot Update
a.k.a It's hard to blog about homeschooling when I feel like we aren't doing any. Is there a word for a non-update? Two weeks ago I wrote that we needed a reboot. That I thought we had been "off" long enough and it was time to turn it back on again. Well, life had other ideas, … Continue reading Reboot Update
Rainy Days and Thursdays
Do rainy days get you down? I have a love-hate relationship with them, I think. I love a good thunderstorm, a really dense fog (as long as I don't have to be out in either), and whoever invented "thundersnow" should get a medal. I guess I like my weather interesting, energized. Within reason, of course. … Continue reading Rainy Days and Thursdays
End of Year Recap
Looking back: Winter saw me ...developing a relationship with my newly found biological family. ...rejoicing as James T. was declared in remission of his rheumatoid arthritis. http://instagram.com/p/jwuM98pvab/ ...very half-heartedly trying to start a coaching business. By half-heartedly I mean pretty much not at all. ...trying to decide whether to bring my now-in-school kids back home. … Continue reading End of Year Recap
Merry Christmas
...and merry/happy every other holiday or event you might be celebrating right now! I'm celebrating the fact that my fifteen year old has two weeks off from school. 🙂 How is everyone holding up under the holiday prep weeks? I see so much self-criticism going on around Facebook regarding not "doing the holidays well enough" … Continue reading Merry Christmas
Seven Quick Takes
! 1 ! "You can't command your feelings, you can only command your will." - David Jeremiah. My a-ha moment for the morning. Not quite an epiphany, because I already believe this**, but something I needed a reminder of this morning. And, as usual, within several minutes of typing this, God showed me how true … Continue reading Seven Quick Takes
A Day in the Life of this Highly Sensitive Homeschooler
Sharing a pretty typical homeschooling day in the life of me: a highly sensitive, introverted, gifted (read: excitabilities), middle-aged, tired homeschooler, with 5 kids from 16-6...several of whom are sensitive/gifted/introverted as well. Then there are the extroverts, setting us all off, LOL. I tried to keep a record of how I was feeling and what … Continue reading A Day in the Life of this Highly Sensitive Homeschooler