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My Homeschool Journal – August 2017

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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

My Homeschool Journal – July 2017

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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

My Homeschool Journal – June 2017

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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

My Homeschool Journal – May 2017

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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

My Homeschool Journal – April 2017

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In My Life This Month Last month I said that I was playing catch-up after Caroline was sick and then I was. Well, lather, rinse, repeat. I'm coming off the cold Caroline brought home. This time we all went through it and I got the tail end of it all. I keep looking at my calendar and thinking I have these wide open weeks to get things done and then boom! Sickness derails it all a bit. David and I have been doing a bunch of things behind the scenes to make this site run better. We moved to https which basically means my site is super duper extra secure and Google won't ding me in search results. For some reason, random posts are now missing their Amazon images so as I discover those I fix … [Read more...] about My Homeschool Journal – April 2017

My Homeschool Journal – March 2017

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In My Life This Month I'm currently playing catch up after Caroline was sick for a week and then I was down for a week. Thankfully David did not get it so we managed to keep things running fairly normally in terms of the home. I kept up with some of my work, but not all so I'm putting in extra hours to get back on track. I'm soaking up as many hours as I can re-reading favorite books by the fire this month as I know fireplace weather is down to just seven or eight weeks. It's truly one of my favorite relaxing things to do and I miss it so much during the summer! I'm trying to figure out how to make Tailwind work for me in order to simplify my Pinterest tasks. This website keeps me … [Read more...] about My Homeschool Journal – March 2017

My Homeschool Journal – February 2017

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In My Life This Month My life this month is mostly centered around my work. Other than caring for my family, my work is where the bulk of my time goes. David and I are finishing up the 2017-2018 Planners and 2017-2018 Homeschool Planners that will be EDITABLE. They should be in my shop by Monday (February 6). Lots of posts planned for here as well as a new non-homeschooling website I'm starting to develop after taking some amazing courses from Pajama Affiliates. If you blog or are interested in making money online, I highly recommend everything offered by Pajama Affiliates! In Our Homeschool This Month Last month I mentioned that we had more testing scheduled for Caroline. We have … [Read more...] about My Homeschool Journal – February 2017

My Homeschool Journal – January 2017

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In my life this month This month is about finishing up all of the major changes I've made to my online work. I've brought this website to a more narrow focus and moved everything else to my older domain (A Quiet Simple Life). I am still adding content to A Quiet Simple Life, but am looking forward to writing over there as well. I'm setting up a new newsletter provider to make sure newsletters are getting through. And I have so much helpful content planned for this website! In our homeschool this month The biggest event in our homeschool will be more testing for Caroline. We will be returning to the same place where she had her testing and OT for dysgraphia. I'm certain there are still … [Read more...] about My Homeschool Journal – January 2017

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