Encouragement

Are you a not-so-ready homeschool mom like me? Are you a not-so-ready homeschool mom like me? It’s been several months since our ready-or-not homeschool officially convened. I’m tempted to classify them as long, hard, slogging days. But if I take a step back and put on my objective lens, they haven’t been quite that bad….

Dear Homeschool Mom, Sometimes as we homeschool (or as we get prepared for the new homeschool year over the summer), we let our jobs as mothers and teachers (and chefs and housekeepers and chauffeurs…) stop us from spending time with our husbands. But it is important for us to love your husband while homeschooling and…

As homeschool moms, most of us juggle about a hundred tasks every day (or maybe even every hour), always with the feeling that there is just so much to do! At the heart of this reality, there is also the struggle to maintain the atmosphere of peace and joy that so many of us long for…

To the mama who knows that her rough moment, which maybe turned into an entire afternoon…or week, will not become HER. To the mama who can hurt from the weight of life’s demands, both self-imposed and otherwise, but will still rise to the challenge the next morning. To the mama who may be overlooked because…

At our house, back to school is not easy. My kids do not look forward to getting back to a school routine after a long break. My kids thrive on routine, and any change in routine requires a period of adjustment. Over the years, I’ve created a few routines and ideas for helping kids who…

We’re reaching the end of what has been, for many, an especially difficult year.  I don’t have to tell you that the last several months have been full of totally unexpected struggles and complications as a result of the global pandemic. We’ve all been affected in some way, whether emotionally, financially, or physically (or all…

Encouragement for the Warrior Homeschool Mom When Trish and Wendy asked if I’d like to write encouragement articles for homeschoolers, approximately, 157,000 ideas came to mind. I take the hearts of mamas very seriously, so I knew I couldn’t waste an opportunity such as this. ‘Excited’ was a massive understatement. But, then? The 1-year-old and…

Y’all. I know tensions are pretty high right now, but something just happened to a friend of ours and it made me instinctively want to check in on you pretties because I fancy myself the resident HHM grandma. #unofficialtitle #getoffmylawn! This friend of ours has a significantly, physically handicapped daughter. They casually mention on FB…

You’ve had them. I’ve had them. We’ve all had them. Them? Those hard, the kids are dumping out all the color-coded toy boxes, the phone is ringing, the dog is barking, my inbox is full, we can’t find the math answer book, the baby is crying, and there’s no coffee type of days. You know,…

What if my child refuses to do school work? “What can I do if my son refuses to do his school work?” “I don’t know how to get my daughter to do her assignments. She just sits there for hours and doesn’t get it done!” I often hear questions like these from tired and frustrated…

Are you worried about homeschooling high school students? Picture a homeschooling mom of high school-aged students. She’s worried that her high schoolers aren’t making the progress they should, and that they don’t know everything they need to at this point in time. She’s worried that they won’t graduate on time, or that they won’t be…