NOTE: This series is for newbie homeschoolers that are in overdrive…overplanning, overscheduling and overthinking your child’s preK or kinder year….WE’VE ALL DONE IT. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Jump to Part: […]
Homeschooling the early years, part 4, creating & playing
NOTE: This series is for newbie homeschoolers that are in overdrive…overplanning, overscheduling and overthinking your child’s preK or kinder year….WE’VE ALL DONE IT. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Jump to Part: […]
Homeschooling the early years, part 3, books
NOTE: This series is for newbie homeschoolers that are in overdrive…overplanning, overscheduling and overthinking your child’s preK or kinder year….WE’VE ALL DONE IT. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Please note: All […]
Homeschooling the early years, part 2, an enriching environment
NOTE: This series is for newbie homeschoolers that are in overdrive…overplanning, overscheduling and overthinking your child’s preK or kinder year….WE’VE ALL DONE IT. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Jump to Part: […]
Homeschooling the early years, part 1
NOTE: This series is for newbie homeschoolers that are in overdrive…overplanning, overscheduling and overthinking your child’s preK or kinder year….WE’VE ALL DONE IT. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Jump to Part: […]
Blogger posts added to this blog
I started blogging on Blogger back in 2004. I started this blog, centered around homeschooling, in 2005. I kept both blogs for years so that I could keep them separate. […]
Homeschool Update!
I recently recorded a new episode of the Savvy Homeschool Moms podcast with my cohost (episode not ready for publish yet, but I’m aiming to have it out soon!)…and one […]
The future’s so bright…
Today I’m working hard on various projects in the making…and reflecting on something I have learned over the years from all my experiences and especially the failures. One, never give […]
Book Challenge for a New School Year
So these are the current state of my main book shelves… These are my picture book shelves…which, even though my kids are older (12 and 16), I keep a fair […]
Chat with Sandra Dodd on Mommy Chats, 4/25/07
Years ago I owned and operated a website called Mommy Chats. Remember live chats? They used to be a big thing. Not anymore. So eventually, after many successful years, the […]
A Family Walk
Our family takes short neighborhood walks daily. At least we try to. We live in the Central Valley of California, where from May through October every year it is HOT…often […]
Mothering Magazine sponsored homeschool chat transcripts coming soon!
Long before I had Homeschool Realm, I had another really successful site called Mommy Chats. (Back in the day of chats.) It doesn’t exist anymore…you can only find it on […]
Journey to a more inspiring high school experience…
These last couple years have been an…interesting…experience. We went from being enrolled at a homeschool charter that gave us complete freedom in how we homeschool our kids, to a […]
MUSIC REVIEW: Caspar Babypants–This is Fun!
Caspar Babypants–This is Fun! This is a cd I just dug out of my crate full o’music that I apparently never got around to listening to before… I probably received […]
A crate full o’music
Doing some reorganizing and decluttering and I found an entire crate FULL of kids’ music! That’s right! This is a square milk crate and it truly is ONLY filled, […]
Anxiety and depression are no joke
I talked about perimenopause in my last post. But I need to talk some more about some specific symptoms today…. I dealt with the blues in my adolescence and early […]
Homeschooling with Perimenopause
Oh, my life. If you are going through this too, I SO want to hear from you in the comments. Maybe we should start a Facebook group for us. […]