Sometimes it feels like all we do is scurry around from one task to another, always busy but never getting anywhere. The best way out of the rat-race feeling is to pause and regroup with a brain dump. A brain dump is the next best step for you to take if you’re feeling like: You…
Do you ever feel like you aren’t gaining the traction you’d like to with your planning efforts? I totally relate. I think we’ve all experienced the confusion and frustration of trying to get our lives organized and under control, but feeling like we’re missing a piece somewhere. I personally can’t stand feeling that way, so…
1. I have a responsible, self-directed graduate. My oldest graduated this month. It’s pretty awesome. For the last 18 months or so I have not only not checked on his homework, I haven’t even known what classes he registered for. He’s taken the reins and is doing a great job. He works full time hours…
It happens so often. We’ve been doing school for weeks on end, and we’re tired. We all – mother and children – are desperately looking forward to the upcoming break, whether it’s a midyear break, holiday break, or summer break. The first day of break is glorious. Then, it starts: “Mom, I’m bored!” Teaching our…
Dinner is the most important family time we have every day, but often we go into it harried and exhausted. We are hectic, getting food on the table with no energy left. A menu plan is supposed to solve that problem, but somehow our efforts rarely seem to pay off. There seems to be some…
There’s no doubt about it: Homeschooling makes a house messy. It seems like having a homeschool room – especially an organized homeschool room – would make the mess go away or at least stay away. But it doesn’t work that way, at least not at my house. I believe doing school in your normal family…
I had a lot of guilt about my kids’ dyslexia diagnosis at first. When you discover that you have a child or children with learning disabilities, it can be a painful realization, one that comes with many questions. Incomplete or circumstantial answers only makes it harder to navigate. I know, because I’ve been through that…
Dinner is the most important family time we have every day, but often we go into it harried and exhausted, hectically getting food on the table with no energy left. In this 38-minute workshop, Allison Schaaf and Mystie Winckler give several suggestions for simple changes to make to your meal routines to eliminate decision fatigue…
1. Repetitious Bible Reading is a beautiful thing I finished my second time through the school-year Bible Reading Challenge, reading the entire Bible over 9 months. I absolutely love this plan. I don’t know why this one works when I’ve not finished year-long plans before, but I have a few ideas: The reading chunks make…
1. I can hack grad work. I finished (and passed!) my NSA grad class on the history of classical Christian education with Dr. Schlect! It was a great class. The main reason I took the class was so that I would finally read numerous books that I had owned for years and never picked up….