Lose Those Winter Blahs

It’s the last day of February. I’m a homeschool mom. The holidays are over. Cold lingers. Summer is still 4 months away. (Can you hear me sighing from there?) At my house, this means burn out. And in Iowa, it means we’ve had snow on the ground for nearly 4 months and it’s looking like we’ve...

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Will You be my Valentine?

On Valentine’s Day and the weeks leading up to it, we are bombarded with red hearts, little sugar conversation candies, chubby cupids posed to shoot an arrow, and packages of little white doilies. Boxes of punch-out Valentine’s cards are available with everything from adorable kittens to Hannah Montana with quip-y...

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6 (okay, 7!) Homeschooling Must-Haves

6-7. A decent pencil and pencil sharpener. Okay, I know that’s technically two things. But they go hand in hand. How many minutes, over how many days, over the lifetime of your child’s home education will he sit fidgeting, dropping, breaking and sitting with a broken pencil tip? Give him one less thing to distract him. ...

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A Day in the Life of Homeschooling Boys

While I would love to be able to say I am one of those moms who has her days planned out, an organized schedule of events, or at least an agenda, the truth is that our day is often a series of tangents and bunny trails. Not to say we don’t start with a plan. The idea is this: Wake up, fill our bellies, make ourselves...

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