I’m only two years behind in posting this one. But it seems that it was just yesterday that Firelizard just started his freshman year. In the spring of his 8th grade year, I spent so much time researching what they needed for high school and my entire philosophy of education went out the window. I…
Last night Bear Bear came with me to get our traditional Saturday night pizza and she asked me this question, “Mom, what is it like to be a mom?” That is an overwhelming question and at first it made me laugh. Sometimes the depth of her questions amazes me. Every once in a while she…
Yikes! Where did the past two years go? While I remember what has happened in the past two years, at the same time it seems surreal. Even though our schooling was not interrupted by Covid, our entire life has been turned upside down. Things have happened in the past two years that I could never…
There are so many different routine and scheduling tricks out there. If you Google “homeschooling routine” you will find myriads of ideas. Whenever I wanted to find a good idea to solve an issue that I struggled with I would head to my favorite blogs. Everything I read presented that particular idea as the sure…
With the advent of typewriters, internet, email, and texting, the need for mechanical writing has lessened considerably. A lot of schools have even given up the teaching of cursive handwriting because they deem it no longer needed. The Common Core curriculum does not require it, and a lot of people believe that learning cursive is…
February, even though it is the shortest month of the year, for me it is the longest month of the year. (And this year February even contains an extra day. Why couldn’t we have that extra day in June?) The winter blues hit me hardest in February. We have been in the winter season for…
While my children were young, I knew the importance of continuing to read to them in order to create in them a love for reading. And because I loved to read and loved to cuddle, daily reading time was easy to do. However, now that my kids are older and able to read on their…
