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Special Replay! Halloween Alternatives Episode 232 What to do? How about some Halloween alternatives to enjoy with your family? Do you love creating lasting memories with your kids? You are going to love these ideas in today’s podcast. Today we are focused on the upcoming holidays, and without a doubt, Halloween causes controversy on both ends – the people who love it and the people who hate it. If you are looking for some fun alternatives, then you won’t want to miss today’s episode. Parents worry about avoiding Halloween because their children will miss out on candy! Believe me, since...

Have you ever gotten ill three times in two months? It seems like this upper respiratory virus keeps targeting our son, then it moves to our daughter and me. Thankfully, my husband never gets it. Our daughter likes to create different characters. Meet Humphry. Our son spent the week in bed, getting behind in all his school work. He barely had enough energy to check Slack and emails every day for communication purposes with his co-op teachers and Science Olympiad coaches and team partners. Since I like to keep it all positive, I looked for the silver lining: at least...

Fall 2022/Laura Adams My mother began homeschooling me in 1999. Though I graduated in 2012, she is still homeschooling my youngest sibling. Now I homeschool my children. As a result of my background, I’ve known many homeschoolers. The best of them had a few key characteristics. The first characteristic of a successful homeschooler is decisiveness. This characteristic plays out in two ways. First, be decisive in your curriculum. If you’ve found something you like and that works for you and your child, stick with it. Do not allow the fact that Jane Doe’s kids are thriving with another program to...

Keeping up with school and teaching co-op classes is a whole new level. I felt chagrined one morning when I had no time to teach school to my younger boys and I stumbled upon them "playing school," with Thomas (7) legitimately teaching Kindergarten to David (5). Despite the challenges of lack of time, I am now enjoying teaching Gregorian Chant, Literature, and Economics to my classes, and I am valuing doing something of service to the community and that utilizes my mind (which is satisfying in a different way than housework and cooking, which is taken for granted anyway).Hockey is...

A dear reader posted a comment on what I thought was a random-and-therefore-normal-for-me photo on Instagram, saying, “I love your homey posts!”   And that got me to thinking! I know what I hope to see when I scroll my favorite accounts… and I wonder what my readers hope to see when they scroll mine or visit me here? So I thought I’d ask! What would you want to see and talk about? And how long are you willing to endure updates on a long-awaited (by me, but possibly hitherto un-thought-of by you) kitchen renovation? A renovation that is likely...