I confess. There are days when I wonder why I am homeschooling. I look around and feel discouraged at my imperfect children. I feel like everyone else’s children are enjoying learning and mine (especially the boys) still complain. As I type this, I realize how ridiculous these feelings are. I know that other families struggle.…
Welcome to the 31st edition of The Christian Home, a weekly Blog Magazine posted every Monday morning. I am happy to be your host again. Each article was submitted by various Christian Blog Authors.I hope you enjoy visiting them, reading their work, and spending some time getting to know them at their own blogs. For your…
It’s my turn on the Schoolhouse Birthday Blog Hop again. Hopefully you visited last week when I hosted Malia Russell. Today I’m pleased to have Amy Barr of Lukeion.org with me. Amy will be writing monthly in The Old Schoolhouse® magazine on Classical Homeschooling topics. Being a somewhat classical homeschooler, I was pleased to be…
My family loves games. We have acquired quite a large collection over the years. We used to have a family game night, but we have unfortunately let it disappear in the busyness of this season of our lives. We definitely need to try to add that back soon! Loving games as I do, I was…
I have been writing product reviews for over 3 years, and I still get excited about just about every item I receive to review. It’s a little bit like Christmas waiting for a new package. But when I saw that some of the Homeschool Crew were going to receive a Guidecraft Hideaway Country Kitchen to…
I have a special treat for you. I am today’s host for the Schoolhouse Birthday Bash Blog Hop! Every day you can meet one of the new monthly columnists for The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine. Malia Russell is the founder of Homemaking 911, a website providing help and encouragement to homemakers. She is a gifted writer…
Yesterday I posted about my insanely busy week. One of the things that I didn’t mention in that post was the weather turned cool on Friday. Thankfully, I knew the weather forecast ahead of time. But I had a problem. Remember how I mentioned that my son had no fall clothes? We had a field trip…
Do you know that commercial with the guy sitting behind a desk saying, “I can do that. I can do that….How am I going to that?” That’s kind of how I felt at the beginning of this week. The kids had 3 cross country meets. I had 3 writing deadlines. I had a consignment sale…
Drill. It’s kind of a dirty word to students and some educators. It invokes images of tedious copying of spelling words or rote recitation of math facts. And in all honestly, it’s not something that has been a strong point in our homeschool up to now. I’ve got some “good” reasons. (Or maybe I should…
Welcome to the 28th edition of The Christian Home, a weekly Blog Magazine posted every Monday morning. I am so excited to be hosting for the first time. Each article was submitted by various Christian Blog Authors.I hope you enjoy visiting them, reading their work, and spending some time getting to know them at their…