Helping You Turn Your Homeschool Challenges into Your Homeschool Charms
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, like the ones I used to know… One Christmas, we got snow in spades, or shall I say, in shovels. So. Much. Snow. Four feet almost to its height. Running down our 200-foot driveway was a two-foot-wide space shoveled for a walkway. We parked at the top and walked down…
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As we daily light the Advent candles, I struggle to remember the order…is the correct pattern: love, joy, peace, hope…or was it love, peace, joy, hope? No matter what the order, the discussion of them each Sunday and finally, Christmas morning, is our family tradition. The kids know there will be a Christmas gift opening…
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A fictional narrative from my real extended Mennonite family Christmas that influenced my homeschool Christmas traditions.
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We have high homeschool Christmas expectations, a perfect Christmas. But real family stories happen in the thick of Christmas too. Five minutes before we left for Christmas Eve service, all spiffed up in our best, we pulled the sofa table away from our new custom sofa to grab a family pic before heading out the…
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I am a former Martha Stewart soiree enthusiast and am going to write a post on ten steps to simplifying Christmas. Insert laugh here. So how to simplify homeschool Christmas Top five things you don’t want to hear your kiddos say that’ll surely not simplify Christmas… 5. Mom I need a reindeer outfit for the…
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Remember when we went to the mall and had our kids sit on Santa’s lap? Seemed like simpler times. Watching Santa greet kiddos at the mall, my son Zach wanted to know: “Where’s the chimney for Santa to come down?” Zach is questioning the validity of all this Santa stuff. At the Santa swim time…”Does…
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