I really enjoyed this book! I am often drawn to new books on my Libby app simply because of the cover art and the title. I know, I know “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”…but truly, the way a […]
BOOK REVIEW: The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street
BOOK REVIEW: Archers, Alchemists, and 98 Other Medieval Jobs You Might Have Loved or Loathed
My son was assigned this book to read in his Build Your Library curriculum and, as is most all the books assigned with this curriculum, this turned out to be a great read! It is a picture book, sort of…in […]
Anthem for a New Year: There is an Answer
This song is on my Apple Music playlist of “Happy Songs”, which I frequently listen to. I simply adore this band, and especially this song. Today, I heard it with a different ear… Today it felt like it actually had […]
Baby Steps
I‘m doing a lot of cleaning up of my websites and finding old blog posts that I never posted. This is one of them. Judging by the fact that I mention in it that it is my daughter’s last year […]
On Being a Homeschool Mom with ADHD
This post is going to be all over the place because that’s how my thoughts are at present. But I feel really compelled to write right now. This isn’t a good picture to represent this topic…I just needed an image […]
Suddenly you realize you are one of those Parents of Adult Children…
I get into a LOT of discussions on Facebook. Many are just shallow, meaningless things…but occasionally they go deeper. Today a mom on one of the groups I am a member of asked this question: Moms with adult children living […]
Hope for those with kids who fight you on everything!
Posted this morning on my local Facebook group I manage…Thought I should share it here as well, for more people to benefit from… And you may want to read the precursor to this post as well, which is THIS POST. […]
Endless Pandemic Days of Blah
I have been realizing that I use my Facebook profile as a sort of journal sometimes…sharing how I am feeling in the moment. And those are posts that I will never be able to retrieve again as they sink into […]
IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CA HOMESCHOOLERS!
9/16/20–UPDATE: I was just alerted to the fact that the CDE’s PSA online form is now “Down for Maintenance”, so they were apparently wrong when they said it would be up until September 30. At this point, it looks like, […]
Experience-Based Learning, Simplified!–Part 4
You’ve read part 1, part 2 and part 3…you know all the ins and outs on how simple it can be to plan for Experience-Based Learning… Now let me walk you through how to actually USE the stations with your […]
Experience-Based Learning, Simplified!–Part 3
So you’ve got Wakelet set up (part 1), and you’ve copied my blank stations for your use (part 2)…now what? Now it’s time to start brainstorming and planning for the first week! Brainstorm with your kids on things they are […]
Experience-Based Learning, Simplified!–Part 2
So yesterday I got you set up to use Wakelet, and hopefully, you set yourself up an account and have had a chance to play around and get familiar with it. But if you didn’t read part 1 yet, go […]
Experience-Based Learning, Simplified!–Part 1
I’ve been thinking that in the current coronavirus situation… …that Experience-Based Learning could really be a great way to handle homeschooling…maybe as a temporary shift in routine for veteran homeschoolers, and as a way to help ease the stress and […]
Coronavirus Force you to Homeschool? Need Help?
I imagine you are probably pretty overwhelmed right now. It’s a scary time already with this pandemic…Then add to that, many of us were already financially struggling and this situation is just making things much worse…and now public school parents […]
The worst year, and only 3 months in!–Time for a VENT!
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 […]
A morning in the life of this ADHD homeschool mom
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 […]
How to Migrate a WordPress site manually for free using UpdraftPlus
I 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 […]
An Argentina craft tutorial: How to make a gaucho sombrero
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 […]
Why education gaps don’t concern me
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. […]
Research says to delay academics!
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 […]