I always love hearing how other people spend their days, and given how many “Day In The Life” blog posts and Youtube videos there are, I know I’m not alone. It can be so helpful to gain perspective and ideas for our own days by observing other people. This post is not a day in…
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Accelerating Our Homeschool High School
Come along with me and see how I (imperfectly) accelerate my children’s education Have you heard of the Brainy Bunch? I read the book years ago and was inspired. This family had 10 kids, and six of them at the time had graduated high school by age 11 and began in-class college courses at age…
Do Our Kids Really Need a College Degree?
Never confuse education with intelligence. You can have a Master’s degree and still be an idiot. -anonymous One memory of my college graduation stands out: our dean spoke at a pre-graduation luncheon. He described what he’d majored in, then his first job after graduating. He had one career for 5-7 years, then another which…
Elements of a Successful Homeschool Day
Over the years, I’ve found that homeschool success is a relative term, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. My success won’t look like yours. Heck, mine won’t look like mine in 6 months or a year. As soon as you decide you’ve achieved it, it can shift and change. It shifts…
Welcome to Her Sacred Burden
Isn’t it a beautiful thing when a phrase or quote jumps out at you and encapsulates so thoroughly something you’ve been thinking and praying about? I’ve been praying about starting a blog for a few months, and before that it had a place firmly lodged in the back of my mind for years. I’ve heard…