Tag: homeschooling

  • Life lately: it’s March {2021}

    Life lately: it’s March {2021}

    “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” Muhammad Ali We did something new as a family: indoor rock climbing! This was a fun outing to celebrate our youngest son’s 12th birthday. It was a first for us all, and we all got a chance to…

  • We don’t do “bad” grades

    We don’t do “bad” grades

    When my youngest girl returned to homeschooling last year, we had to work on a mindset shifts about grades. Specifically, that there are no bad grades in our homeschool. Even my son who has never attended school still stressed about bad grades. I suppose this was from hearing his sister worry about her grades, and…

  • Life lately: Hello, February {2021}

    Life lately: Hello, February {2021}

    “Instructions for living a life.Pay attention.Be astonished.Tell about it.” ~Mary Oliver, Sometimes Hey, look! — It’s my third post already this year. Are y’all still reading? I miss the days when folks regularly commented. Those were the good old days… then again, I’m from ancient blogland times; I started blogging the year Kathryn started kindergarten…

  • It’s a new year – finally!

    It’s a new year – finally!

    The year wasn’t all bad for us, but it certainly had challenges. There’s been so much talk about everyone being excited for a new year, but things don’t feel different to me just because we flipped the calendar. Even so, I’m glad to see the tail end of 2020. We smoked ourselves out of the…

  • How is it already November?

    How is it already November?

    I decided a while back that I had shifted to writing here on my personal blog whenever time allows and the urge strikes. Unfortunately, most of the time the two don’t happen simultaneously, so here we are. family life We had two birthdays since my last post. One became a teen; one phased out of…