Over the Christmas holiday I found You Need a Budget (h/t Rebecca from A Humble Place). I read the book, started my free trial on the app, and our family’s finances are on the fast track to better organization and stewardship. (FYI, those are referral links – if you click through and make a purchase,…
I’m a guest on How We Homeschool today. It’s a Substack run by Catherine Oliver, a British, home educating mum who shares what her days with her children look like. She also shares many guest posts like mine, where other people share their homeschool days, so you never get the impression that there is only…
It’s that time of year. We are well into autumn, and your plans and schedule are making plain that you are either: Totally on track to finish your autumn term well. Waving a complete goodbye to the idea of a ‘strong finish’ and hoping that you can limp across the finish line and somehow find…
When we first start homeschooling, we rarely have the benefit of watching other people educate their children on a daily basis (unless, of course, we were home educated ourselves!). We pour over schedules, book lists, and examples of the homeschool days of other families. This can be helpful, but sometimes all the variety can be…
Not long after I started my first son on homeschool lessons, I shared my process for scheduling a term with Ambleside Online (a free, Charlotte Mason homeschool curriculum). Since then, I’ve been through that process several more times and added another student into the mix. I know many moms wonder where to start with a…