Homeschool Encouragement

How to Ditch the Overwhelm to Connect with What Matters Most

Every year, and sometimes in between, I get to this place of "overwhelm." There's SO much I want to do with our children. There are SO...

Homeschooling is Not the Answer

We are living in scary times. Each and every day, there’s a new headline, a new story that shifts and pushes us further into a world that...

The Books that Shaped Our Christian Homeschool

I’ve often said that when I began homeschooling, I didn’t realize how much I would be the student in the midst of this journey. As a...

When Homeschooling is Hard

Homeschooling our children has been one of my greatest blessings. I am so grateful that I get to share life and learning with our...

Podcast: From Dream Job to Stay-at-Home Mom

The world often tells us that we, as women, can have it all. It pushes us to make more money, climb more mountains, buy more things, and...

When Learning Looks Nothing Like School

We often associate learning with desks and worksheets and tests and school. We often think that it needs to happen in desks in a building...

The Ultimate Teacher

Our children had a friend over the other day. He was learning about evolution in school and decided to tell them that humans came from...

The Day I Was Called a Woman of Leisure

(2016) It took me about nine months to tell anyone from my work community that I wanted to stay home with our son and daughter. It was...

Why We're Still Homeschooling

When I first began homeschooling, I really didn't have too many reasons to back up our choice. I literally felt a calling to do it after...

If You Homeschool Your Children, There Will Be Gaps in Their Education

This is what we are told as homeschool parents. This is what keeps us up at night, worried that we're not doing enough--that we need to...

I Was the Worst Candidate for Homeschool Mom

Growing up, all I ever knew was public school education. Almost everyone in my family was a public school educator, and playing "school"...