I’m going to do a bit of venting here. It IS my blog and if you can’t vent on your own blog, where the hell can you?? My life has become completely overwhelming and I need to vent. So, here goes… So at the beginning of this year, our family
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Me to 14yr old Tyren (TEERen): You know how much I love you? Tyr: Like 7? No, 8! Me: At LEAST 12! Tyr: *giving me a hug* I love you 17!
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I like to share the funny things that happen around here so I can find them again to enjoy in the future…and maybe someone will also get a laugh out of them. My husband and kids are a riot. Here’s 2 more things that happened recently…these are from my 19yr
Continue readingSo over the past week, I have been trying to get a new theme that I purchased set up here on Homeschool Realm. Some of you may have noticed the chaos. Well…it seemed like a really awesome theme and the demo was gorgeous. But alas…I have run into the same
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I just stumbled upon this blog post that I wrote last year but never finished and published. Our mornings have changed quite a bit since I wrote this (and never finished it) but I thought it was pretty interesting so I figured I’d post it anyway as a record of
Continue readingI LOVE the UpdraftPlus plugin. LOVE. IT. And someday when I have the money I may decide I need to upgrade to a paid version. But for now, I don’t need all the bells and whistles, and I finally figured out how to migrate without paying for their paid migrator
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My 18yr old daughter this morning got super angry as a package of crackers fell on her when she opened up a kitchen cupboard. Maeven: ARGH!! WHY does everything have to constantly fall on me!!! Me: Calm down, everything doesn’t CONSTANTLY fall on you…*pause for thought* If things CONSTANTLY fell
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This article originally published October 11, 2015 and updated on March 1, 2019. It has been one of my most visited pages on my website of all time! Not sure why, but it’s pretty exciting! Leave a comment below and let me know what brought YOU to this page! We
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CC Image courtesy of Robert S. Donovan on Flickr This article originally published July 25, 2014 and updated on February 5, 2019 Gaps in my children’s homeschool education don’t concern me. I hear homeschoolers express fear over the dreaded “gaps” in their child’s education all the time. It’s all over the internet, particularly rampant among newbie homeschoolers.
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CC image courtesy of Leslie on Flickr This article originally published November 13, 2015 and updated on February 4, 2019 Recently articles about this Stanford research keep popping up in my news feed. It says we’re sending our kids to school too early. And that is possibly why we have such a huge amount of attention deficit disorder
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This topic just came up, again, on one of the Facebook groups that I am a member of. And to be perfectly honest, I struggle BIG TIME with this EVERY.SINGLE.DAY with both my kids (18 and 13). But especially my 13yr old son. I haven’t solved it yet, but I
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Full disclosure: Teaching Textbooks approached me and asked me to do this review and giveaway, in exchange for a level of their product for my son. But the opinions expressed here are entirely my own. My First Experience with Teaching Textbooks I have homeschooled my 2 kids (boy, 13 and
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“Stay human, you carry the future in your arms and in your bellies.”–Michael Franti This is an old transcript from back when I ran a chat website called Mommy Chats (a site that I no longer own), and hosted all sorts of topical chats, including weekly chats sponsored by Mothering
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This week, as will happen, life took some unexpected turns.
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Today wrapped up the first week of my 5th Annual Great Summer Purge and Clean: The Kitchen Zone. Today I focused on cleaning/organizing the top of my dishwasher (it’s a portable, and a magnet for piles of crap), cleaning the kitchen table (which wasn’t actually too bad, for a change),
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