When we first started home schooling it was the hardest thing I believe I have ever done. I was terrified. What if I were to skip something vital and mess up my child’s education? I never wanted to home school to begin with, and when the…”opportunity” (read unfortunate circumstance) to home school presented itself, I [...]

“Mama, when do they make the first graders cry, because I need to stay home that week.” That was the question my child asked me the first day of first grade. At first, I couldn’t understand what she was asking.  “You know, Mama, the whole week where everyone has to be really quiet, and can’t [...]

When we started home schooling it was easy to say that all we really needed was our core curriculum. We started home schooling in the middle of first grade, and for the first couple of years we were kind of getting our legs under us. As my child approaches middle school I have discovered that [...]

I can see that if you’re brand new to homeschooling, this could be a  pretty intimidating thing, like starting anything new can be scary.  But for verteran homeschooling moms, homeschooling a preschooler is  a piece of cake!  I have several older kids who are also homeschooling, so I look at preschool as a creative way [...]

I think we have decided that my soon to be teenager will take some public school courses next year.  She has never gone to public school and I don’t want a big culture shock for her.  Our local public school offers a cyber academy where she would go 1 day to get her assignments and [...]