Someone asked me recently if my kids ever just wake up cranky. And I wanted to say, “Oh my good-golly-gosh-are-you-kidding-sister, YES.” I wake up cranky. Sometimes all of us wake up cranky. Or tired. Or out of sorts for one reason or another. It happened on our first day of school this year. Thank goodness…
I heard something kind of life-changing this week: If you’re exhausted and overwhelmed, step back and cut out everything that isn’t a necessity. ~ Crystal Paine I wasn’t looking for this piece of advice. I found it in the course of doing my job. And to be clear, this advice goes directly against everything that I’ve believed in…
Homeschooling has broken me, I think. I didn’t realize it until last week. That it has broken my brain. That it’s broken the way I think about everything. But I’ve never been more sure that I’m a homeschooler raising homeschoolers, and I’ve never felt stronger in my convictions. Like with so many things, I have…
There’s going to come a time when it gets old — this having one car thing. But for now, on this snowy afternoon, it’s pretty OK. I think it helps that it’s not forever. I was thinking about not-forever recently — my kids were taking Christmas break seriously, playing lots of video games and enjoying…