I’ve been homeschooling for 13+ years, I haven’t graduated one kid, and I switch things up ALL THE TIME. So let’s face it — I don’t know everything about homeschooling. On the other hand, 13 years is a fair amount of time, and I’m still at it, and I am really good (if I do say so…
I find that when you call something a “method” it sometimes accidentally gives it street cred. So last week, when I started talking about The Cactus Method ™️ of homeschool planning on Instagram, mamas started asking me what book it was from and where I had gotten the idea. So I’m going to tell you that…
For a long time, my solution to overwhelm was a brain dump. I needed to get that stress-tornado out of my head and on to paper so that I could create a plan of attack. Just the process was helpful, but it was hard to know where to start fixing. Usually, by the time I…
For many years, winter and I were not friends. I would get terrible winter blues and struggled with the cold. It made me cranky. Our windy old Victorian was so architecturally interesting and so, so terribly drafty and miserable. It was built in 1905, and remodeled many times. The last time, right before we bought it,…