The last two weeks we have focused on homeschooling goals and touched on planning your schedule. Now it's time to fill in the details to make this a workable transition and transformation for your family. Keep in mind: life happens. While we work with the details, keep your own family's day-in and day-out rhythms at the front or your thoughts. Do you have a husband who works strange hours? Do you have children with delayed developmental issues? Do you struggle yourself because you have many, many little ones all needing different things on different levels? How this plan works out, needs to work first with you and ...Read More
Homeschool Planning 101: Define Your Focus and Schedule (Part 2 of 3)
We are in the second part of a series dedicated to Homeschool Planning. (click here to see my first post Homeschool Planning 101: Setting Goals) This post if focused on how and what to plan. We have given our plans to the Lord, written down the ideas we received somewhere so we can revisit pray over them, jotted down long term and short term goals. Today we will take a more focused and detailed look at how we make those goals reality. Getting Focused Now comes a decision making moment. What is your family's main focus? That focus, or mission statement if you will, will guide you in this decision making ...Read More
Homeschool Planning 101: Setting Your Goals (Part 1 of 3)
Homeschool Planning can be a joy or a dread. Some mothers thrive in this area. They spend the whole summer gathering books, making lists, and printing out everything they could possibly need and more, with great ease and joy. For others (me included, at times) this can be a great chore, a seemingly sterile duty, a dread, it can bring on great fear and even become a curse. We might even put it off until literally the last minute (i.e. the first the first day of school). I am writing this series to take the dread and drudgery out of this duty and hopefully breathe life and excitement into your next school year...even if ...Read More
Foods Heavenly Blueberry Coconut Coffee Cake
Yes, you can have a heavenly piece of blueberry coffee cake and still be walking the healthy-eating walk. What's more, you can enjoy it, even when baked with coconut flour! I know many people have avoided baking with coconut flour because the results can end "eggy" tasting or too dry. The texture can be like "cardboard" and it can be a pain to work with. So let me relieve some of your worries by giving you a great recipe that's sure to turn out (and few tips too). Looking for more gluten-free recipes and resources? This Everything Gluten Free page is a library of everything gluten free we’ve worked ...Read More
Homeschooling How to Plan a Successful Homeschool Day When Life is Busy
This question has plagued me for nearly 13 years. No, I am not kidding. Not just for when life is busy but all the time. How does one do this? There are so many opportunities to find what fits you. Yet these many choices often brought me great depression and confusion as I wanted the best plan for our family. I focused too much on the best and not what works for us. Over these many years, not only have I changed my method of homeschooling—from classical, to unit study, to a combo of the two with other varieties added to the mix—but I have finally found what works for our family in the day-to-day details of life. No ...Read More
