Homeschooling wasn’t even on my radar when I became a mother. Soon after becoming a mom I divorced. Two years after that I remarried and inherited 2 stepkids, and then I was just trying to keep my head above water with two toddlers who were 6 months apart, and a
Sipping hot tea because I am up too early after staying up with the kids to watch the eclipse last night, sitting here thinking about life and homeschooling and faith and all of it, and my mind is rather a jumbled mess. The boys and I take every December off
Last week was our church’s first VBS in five years. We had a children’s pastor who decided, way back then, that VBS was a waste of time because so many parents would take their kids “VBS hopping”: they would register their kids for every VBS they could find, all summer
Why do kids put things up their noses? I don’t remember ever doing something like that, nor do I remember my sister doing it. We just didn’t think of plugging up our nostrils with various things, I guess. Then I became a parent. We have had two such nostril-plugging incidents,
I love being a Mom. I mean, seriously! It amazes me, however, how truly UNglamorous this life is. When I was a little girl, my Gramma took me to the department store and had me pick out a silverware pattern. OK, not SILVER, but a stainless flatware pattern. When I