It took me three weeks, but I did it. I finally compiled a list of skills I want my kids to work on this summer. These are skills that I don’t have time to address during the school year and by focusing now…we will all benefit next school year. They get a reward for each skill mastered and a bonus Continue Reading →
These are my morning buddies. They are the ones who get up most mornings and pull together something for everyone to eat for breakfast. I am not a morning person so this blesses me abundantly day after day. My boys didn’t just start throwing together ingredients one day and call it a success. It took me taking the time to Continue Reading →
I’m standing at the base of the stairs in our home, patiently watching my daughter… go up the stairs go down the stairs go up the stairs go down the stairs go up the stairs go down the stairs Continue Reading →
As I sit on the sidelines of the sports field, I am engulfed with the noise of those around me cheering on the players. It is a sea of voices and I wonder if my voice will be heard–why even bother? Yet when I join my voice with the crowd, my child turns and our eyes lock. They have heard Continue Reading →
Do your children have habits that absolutely drive you nuts? I’m not talking personality. I’m talking about things that they do that make you want to tear out your hair. Mine do and I imagine they are not the only children on earth with “issues.” I wonder, what do you do when your children do their “thing” that sends you through the Continue Reading →
I’m having a bit of difficulty getting to writing this week. The temperature has dropped significantly here and that means our home follows suit. This is the point at which we begin our hibernation upstairs. We do everything, including our school, up in my room. If the kitchen and laundry were up there…that would be ideal. I’m sure my cousin, Continue Reading →
As I sit here writing this post, it is lunch time. Lunch is being made and I am not even in the kitchen. Well then how in the world is lunch being made? It is being made by my awesome children! Yes, if you had not caught on yet…I homeschool my children. I usually purpose to not mention this because Continue Reading →
I have been struggling this week. I have been working through some things that I should have mastered by now, but a bit of Should-itis has snuck up on me. I never really finished explaining to you what Should-itis is and the story of how I discovered it in my life and how I beat it. I’ll get back to Continue Reading →
After the last two posts I have written, if you are new to this blog, you might just wonder what is the difference between training and discipline. I was going to write about it but decided that since I had already done it, to not re-invent the wheel. I have added categories for my writing in the side-bar (not that Continue Reading →
Let me ask you a question. Who is in charge in your home? I’m not asking about who wears the pants in the family. I’m not asking about whether it’s you or your husband. That’s another post for another day. I’m asking…is it you or your children? I know your immediate reply will, of course, be that you are in Continue Reading →