Mwahahahahahaha Good luck with that. Oh wait. This is a blog post. There’s gotta be more to say. Hanging with the kiddos 24-7 (ish) makes date night more of a challenge. Why? Because you’re used to being available, the kids are used to you being available, little or large kids. You’ve grown into being flexible … Continue reading
Peering into the lives of other homeschoolers is just plain interesting. It also gives us ideas for our own homeschools, our own children and families. It leaves us with a feeling of pride: this is our community, this is who we rub shoulders with, these are the benefits to homeschooling. I have the pleasure of … Continue reading
Everyone eats differently. I know I couldn’t possibly represent everyone’s diet JUST because they homeschool. Most homeschoolers’ goals are to equip our children’s brains to enable them to learn and build those neural networks. How to do that? French Kids Eat Everything, the memoir by Karen Le Billon, was an inspiration in my early parenting. … Continue reading
I began menu planning when I was a little girl. Kid you not. I thought hamburgers were a weekly necessity, so I created an alphabetic list for them. A for apple burgers, B for breakfast burgers, C for carrot burgers. Yikes. Good thing I didn’t use that one. I’m one of those moms. I like … Continue reading
This September we have been studying poetry: reading it, analyzing it, writing it. Oh no, you say, my kids don’t enjoy poetry. Ditto for mine. (Or so they thought.) Build some new neural networks. Learn a new language. Become cultured. These were my original reasons for perusing snippets of William Wordsworth as part of my … Continue reading
Me getting a facial. That is a homeschool mama self-care practice. (That I’ve only ever practiced once.) I’m writing a book! Well another book. I am a solid 20,000 words into the topic of homeschool mama self-care. Do you remember this post? https://wordpress.com/post/capturingthecharmedlife.com/12377 This post, and a theme of other posts, have spurred me on … Continue reading
Let’s get to why I’m writing about homeschool philosophies before a haze falls across your eyes as opaquely as the haze of smoke settling into my mountain valley homestead. I am not going to write a blog that details the homeschool philosophies in education. If you haven’t heard that there’s more than one way to … Continue reading
