Survival Mode: Keeping First Things First
Reminding ourselves of the big picture is the most important tool in making it through your Survival Mode homeschool year.
Category: Practical
These posts are the nitty-gritty of practical, how-to homeschool. I’ll post resources here, they may be affiliate links (like many links on the site) but I’ll never advocate a resource I don’t trust in my own homeschool.
Survival Mode Homeschooling
One of the things about being a military wife and a homeschool mom at the same time is that I get the opportunity to “work from Survival Mode” somewhat often. Survival Mode is when my husband is gone for long…
Camping with Kids: Lessons Learned
Last weekend, I went camping with our five kids and no other adult help. My husband had work stuff to do, and I had been waiting years and years for the smallest of our kids to get big enough to…
Bullet Journal Homeschooling: Why and How-To (With Examples!)
This post covers why I do what I do in terms of tracking our homeschool in my bullet journal.
Going Analog: Bullet Journal Homeschooling
I finally ditched the spreadsheet and integrated my bullet journal into our homeschool planning and tracking. Here’s what happened.
Mother Culture and Natural Remedies for Fussy Babies
This child was up all night. Why is it so much harder to be up all night with a baby when you are in your 30’s versus when you’re in your 20’s? I mean, I know the answer to this,…
Three Tips for Better Habits
The success of our homeschools is primarily a result of what habits we, as homeschooling moms, have formed for ourselves. Of course, it’s our responsibility to help our kids form good habits, but it starts with us. After some false…
A Day in the Life of a Classical Homeschool
This is part of the series: Classical Homeschooling Those of you who have read any of these great books about classical homeschooling have, if you’re anything like me, shut the book and said something like, “Yeah right.” All of this sounds…
Mom’s Everything Bag: Organizing & Saving Time
Moms today have it incredibly easy since the invention of smart phones. We can pay bills, make homeschool plans, take pictures of our cute kids and share them with family and friends, all with a few flicks of a touch…
Mom, CEO. (Leadership Principles for Homeschooling Moms)
There are some striking similarities between being a homeschooling mom and being the CEO of a major corporation. Okay, I’ve never actually been the CEO of a major corporation. Out of the yearly boatload of books published on leadership in the…
