Adventures of a Catholic homeschooling family in Alaska.
I’ve written about how to avoid homeschool burnout (check out an older post titled Recharging Those Batteries When They Burnout.) Or, maybe I should say alleviate that feeling. Anyone who’s homeschooled knows all about that point in late winter or early spring when you are exhausted and ready to hang up the proverbial towel [Read On]
One of the newest titles in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series is proving to be a great go to book to lift my spirit. The 101 stories inside seek to inspire the reader to find their purpose, passion and joy. Although the days are getting longer here, this is still prime season [Read On]
So much of our society at large still seems to focus on the ‘almighty ME’..as in what’s in it for ME and what will I get for my efforts. Hmmm…that sounds almost like what my boys will sometimes ask with their childish views on life.That is not to say there are no people out there [Read On]
First off, I wanted to share about a brand new ‘magazine’ on the web. Mrs. White over at The Legacy at Home is hosting The Christian Home with different categories where you can submit original blog posts each week. She plans to post the magazine each Monday morning with submissions due by 5 p.m. EST [Read On]
Have you ever watched 2 kids wrestling with one pinned until the other finally caves and cries "Uncle!"? Then they are released and have such a sense of relief projected from their entire body. Well, there are days when I feel like a homeschool mother in the midst of a wrestling match where occasionally I [Read On]
Right now, nominations are in progress for the Homeschool Blogger Awards. There was chatter on the TOS Homeschool Crew boards about how some of us might not fit so neatly into those categories. So…..the Homeschool Misfit Awards has been born! Now THIS award group has several categories I can see fitting! The Blabber Blog Award [Read On]
As I was going through my email messages, I found one from The Old Schoolhouse about a special discount rate to pre-order the Fall Expo package. This time, they are offering either the Live format OR the “To Go” format. Both options give you all the mp3 files to download a few weeks after the [Read On]
This week’s TOS Blog Cruise tackles the ever present question of How to avoid burnout? What to do if you burnout? Maybe you are lucky and have never tettered on the edge of burnout. I suppose there are a few homeschooling families where this might be the case. Several unschoolers I knew back in Ohio [Read On]
Things have been a bit busy around here between music ministry at church (we’re now into First Communions and then Confirmation Masses) and working as a rep for In the Hands of a Child at a few conferences. I did want to share about this great promo I heard about for TEACH magazine and Home [Read On]
It’s now just under a week until the Apologia Live! Conference in Baltimore and I am still so excited about this opportunity. I was recently given the list of presentation titles as a teaser and wanted to share them here. “Walking in the Light of Joy”“Walking in His Light Everyday”“Walking in the Light of His [Read On]
Now that we are in February, the winter doldrums can start to rear their ugly head. I’ll be honest that while I don’t feel like my life is dragging between homeschooling the boys, participating in a great homeschool co-op (that’s on break this month), serving as a member of the TOS Crew, and also my [Read On]
