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Celebrate September 16: Collect Rocks Day! My kids just adore rocks and gemstones. We’re always collecting and admiring rocks wherever we go. Sometimes, we acquire rocks as souvenirs when we travel (Make sure that’s legal where you visit!). My girls are enjoying reading through these Geology Calendar Connections every morning this month. We have a different theme…
We’ve tried out various homeschool styles over the years. Some we love and incorporate into our homeschool; others don’t quite work for us. The Classical Method is still very much my favorite homeschool method. I was a bit scared of this method in the beginning. It was overwhelming. I had to learn alongside my daughter to…
I’m raising servant leaders, and I have to be a good role model. The idea of “servant leadership” was first mentioned by Robert K. Greenleaf in 1970 in his essay, The Servant as Leader. Actions speak way louder than words. I can lecture, discuss, cajole, encourage, cheer – or any range of the verbal spectrum… If my…
During a recent field trip, I had an opportunity to use a game as a worldview teaching tool. I periodically scanned the park to monitor my children between conversing with the other moms. The girls were with a group of kids their age. Liz was happy among the teens. Alex had found a friend his size…
February is surely the dullest month. March arrives with hope, but it’s still cold and dreary and I long for spring! Lent is a good time to focus on God and my family instead of myself. All the weather discomfort reminds me that I am not in control. God is. And there’s hope in another month…
February is Dental Health Month! I am so grateful that we receive regular dental checkups very affordably through the military. It’s super important that we teach our kids about dental health. Teeth are necessary for healthy digestion, and if we don’t take care of our mouths, it can lead to all sorts of other health issues. We’ve…
We all spend our lives searching, searching, searching. We fall in love with noble quests in stories and great adventures in movies and epic accounts in history. All just magnificent synonyms for searching. I spent almost thirty years searching, mostly in all the wrong places. For love. Then for about ten years, assuming the effort…
It’s sometimes hard to celebrate the holiday season. We live far from family. Most of the year we can keep our homesickness easily at bay, but around the holidays the homesickness is at its worst. Since my husband is in the Air Force, we’ve never lived near family, and it’s been difficult for our large family to…
What may seem trivial to me is anything but trivial to my little ones. I wrongly mistook encouraging independence with rushing through bedtime routines. And in the rushing, an important connection was lost. Over years, the relationship wavered. For the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. ~William Ross Wallace…
We have four kids. In the house. With me. Every day. Of course they don’t each have a personality that meshes well with mine or with each other. Every day (sometimes every moment) is a challenge. I’m raising leaders, not followers. But the catch is that I do want them to follow my directions. It’s a delicate…
I was very structured in the beginning of our homeschool journey. It was a little difficult for me to transition from teaching a classroom full of students to my one little daughter. We have always homeschooled with history as our core. We began with Story of the World for the first four years, for one…
Start off your homeschool year right. Get healthy! Just like New Year’s resolutions, we homeschool moms want to set goals for a new school year. We create schedules, routines, and habits that we hope are better for our families. We focus on three areas to keep our family healthy and evaluate these areas frequently to…
