A Homeschool Story

  HOMESCHOOLING FOR THE FREE-SPIRITED    Rule to Remember: It does not have to be a drag. In fact, learning at home can be joyful and rewar...

Every parent knows the sweet feeling the comes over you when your child offers you a drawing, from the simplest of purple stick-figures to t...

    It has been a consistent joy to see my adult children wander back outside after the need to be indoors has taken over most of their waki...

Put kindness and love first. These are extraordinary times. Let's not make it any harder on ourselves than it needs to be. There is mor...

Wow; we are all in one big, worldwide homeschooling club, aren't we? And most of us had not expected to be here today. From the looks o...

We are not alone; many homeschoolers do this little boogie at one time or another; to school and back again, but I had thought that this ti...

Dubuque, Iowa is my hometown, and it is also host to the largest, truly incredible  museum on the Mississippi River and the history of the...

This was a welcome little getaway, sandwiched in between work, activities and endless chores. And in what I qualify as "balmy ...

Crash! "A squirrels' nest fell, mama!" And our lesson on whatever it was, morphed into two hours of watching out our back ...

The other night, my husband asked if I would like to bike down to our favorite date night spot by the river. It was already 8:00pm, but ...

Campsites are one of the things that America really does well. Our standard picnic table and firepit per site get my full endorsement. The ...

Today's post comes to you from our local laundry mat, as the sleeping bags, pillows and towels go round and round in two separate dryer...

I am supposed to be writing a speech. A short one about homeschooling and what it is, and to introduce myself. It is for a panel on educati...

...for the days when I was homeschooling five kids, making candles, taking hikes, having all the time in the world and not knowing it. ...

February is always the month where spring starts to sound like a really good idea that is really far away. I love the winter though, and th...

When the weather is dismal and energy levels inspire more to crawling back under the covers than to deep study and hard work, the homeschoo...

Plodding away...like a big old farm horse, not real sexy or going anywhere fast, but some progress is still progress. That is what the past...

Sometimes I know that the task set before me may not be easy, but I feel the utter necessity of following through if my kids are going to ...

I love this first week of school when everything is fresh and new, as well as the level of enthusiasm; it all seems possible. We will all s...

No, not "poor mom" and here's why: I keep hearing the joyful exclamations of parents about their children being back in schoo...