If you are new to home schooling or just considering it you undoubtedly have many questions. The decision to home school your child is a big one and it is can be scary. I know when I made the decision to pull my child out of 1st grade at the Christmas break, I cried a [...]

I got a flyer the other day in the mail and almost tossed it as junk until I noticed it had to do with homeschooling.  I decided to spend a few seconds reading it, unlike my other junk mail that I’d already trashed.  I’m glad I did because I learned a new term, STEM. Apparently [...]

When they make the big decision to start homeschooling, every parent wonders where to start.  If you think of the process of narrowing down which type of homeschooling you prefer and imagine a tree with many branches, it may help you to visualize what needs to be done.  At the base of the tree, a single [...]

You would think that the end of a school year, or perhaps the very beginning of a school year would be the time I get the most questions about home schooling. I have found that right about this time of year, I get more questions about how to begin to home school. Maybe those questions [...]

Well as you can guess from the title of this post I live in NM.  It is absolutely gorgeous here.  It took me some time to get use to it, but I love it now.  We have four seasons that are very colorful.  When I moved here in 2003 that is was when I decided [...]