I wasn’t going to do this. I told myself I didn’t have it in me to go back over my notes and detail what I did. But then people started asking questions and it dawned on me that perhaps a post like this is the most efficient way to communicate these things. So here we are. I’m sharing the ins and outs of the last senior year for my last homeschool student, the year that was two decades in the Continue Reading…
August 17, 2026
For whatever reason, the concept of being driven and motivated by fear has come up in conversation with both of my adult daughters lately. In trying to explain it, I keep coming back to homeschooling: fear drives many to homeschool. They may be trying to avoid vaccines and bullies, they may be terrified of school shootings and bomb threats, or they may be well aware of the consequences of the curriculum content coupled with the school culture. No matter. The Continue Reading…
October 16, 2025
On my 27th birthday, my husband gave me a set of Charlotte Mason’s volumes, which he knew I wanted (thanks to Cindy Rollins’ incessant blogging about it). We didn’t have a real backyard at the time (just a vacant lot, a giant square of dirt that made a huge mess I wasn’t always in the mood for), so I was in the habit of driving my two little ones (a four-year-old and four-month-old) over to my parents’ house for extended Continue Reading…
August 30, 2025
Forms V and VI.In these Forms some definite teachingin the art of composition is advisable,but not too much,lest the young scholars be saddled with a stilted stylewhich may encumber them for life.— Charlotte Mason (A Philosophy of Education, p. 193) Here I am, once again planning someone’s senior year. (This is the closest I’ve ever cut my school planning — we start in six days!) I was very casual with this child’s writing instruction because she has always been naturally Continue Reading…
August 13, 2024
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