Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I hope all of you are having a great holiday week! I know that not everyone celebrates in the same way, but this time of year is so full of holidays and warm family times. I hope that you are taking advantage of this time. I also know that school [...]

My local school will begin the 2011-12 school year next week. While this doesn’t really effect my home school, it does increase my level of stress a little bit. We took an unforeseen break in June and July as far as school was concerned. Family issues required much of my time, and school was the [...]

Do you have a reluctant writer? I’m not talking about penmanship here but about actually writing of paragraphs, reports, journals, and things like that. I have a very reluctant writer. My daughter does not like to write anything. She does not like to put pen to paper for any reason. We think that part of [...]

Boy do I remember the days my oldest daughter hated to read  and write because she didn’t understand spellings of words.  Now being in seventh grade I can not get her to put down a book.  She has a friend who has the Kindle and let her borrow it so she can read the new [...]

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 [...]