Homeschooling

In My Life This Month The Transformation Summer of 2017 is drawing to a close. If you remember from last month, we have been doing extensive work on our home. We were also updating all the printables and planners in my shop. We're mostly done with the house and it looks fantastic. David is finishing up a few last little things and then in October he will rip out and tile our master tub/shower and turn it into a walk-in shower (no tub). My printables are all updated so I don't have to cringe again when someone buys something that hasn't been updated in a few years. All of this (as well as editing and laying out the new WriteShop Book F) gave us a lot of opportunities to talk about … [Read more...] about My Homeschool Journal – August 2017

In My Life This Month The past several weeks I have been weary, if I am going to be totally honest. The summer heat and humidity always wear me out. Upheaval in my home always wears on me. And I've been drowning in the minutia of updating 250+ printable products and then updating them on three sites where I sell them (mine, TPT, and Educents) instead of thinking and writing new posts and creating new products. I'm an INFJ so I don't do extended minutia well. And between home renovations and printables, I'm swimming in the minutia of choices, changes, uploads, and details every day. I'm incredibly grateful we are doing all this. I've named this Transformation Summer 2017 because we're … [Read more...] about My Homeschool Journal – July 2017

In My Life This Month Isn't the release into the freedom of summer one of the most wonderful feelings in the world? We have very little that is scheduled regularly during the school year, but there is something about that feeling of no commitments, no schedules, and very few expectations that makes me very happy. This month we are concentrating on finishing up most of painting and redecorating in our home. We've lived here six years and we are finally making it "ours." We did finish up Caroline's room a few weeks ago which I linked to below. It turned out very well. But I'm so excited to have everything be freshly painted and with new carpet and wood laminate in the house. My dust … [Read more...] about My Homeschool Journal – June 2017

In My Life This Month If you thought it seemed like it had been a bit since I put up a new post, you would be correct. One of the changes I've made as I started thinking about pursuing a quiet simple life again is to not pressure myself to produce content all the time. I realized a few weeks ago that we've lived in this house six years (this week). Caroline was four and a half when we moved in. She's now pushing toward eleven. In the same amount of time moving forward that we've already lived here, she'll be pushing seventeen. The past six years have been a blur and it struck me (hard) how little time we have left before she is an adult. It's mind-blowing to this mom who was married nine … [Read more...] about My Homeschool Journal – May 2017