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Keeping the Homeschool House Clean

I laugh at the thought of me writing this article. My homeschool house is certainly not always clean. I’m sure there are some perfect homes out there but mine is not one of them. If you come knocking on my door, I sure hope you can avert your eyes from the mess made by four kids in a home we use all day long. I have my moments of a clean and sparkling home and my moments of a home that I’d rather not discuss. So my advice to homeschoolers everywhere is that you should NOT expect your home to … Continue reading →

Getting Back in the Groove

I came down with a really bad case of bronchitis in January, and wasn’t good for much of anything. I could point and grunt, but that was about it. School suffered—at least, the parts that require me to think. And we won’t even discuss how my housework suffered. That’s just too pitiful. After I recovered and we were able to get back into our groove, I noticed a distinct lack of enthusiasm on the part of my twelve-year-old son. It was hard to get him to feel any excitement about resuming our routine, especially when it came to math. Our … Continue reading →

Maybe it Should be Called World Schooling

Quite some time ago I wrote a post on my personal blog called Sometimes. I received comments and emails about how it encapsulated what most homeschoolers feel about education. Briefly, I took pictures of a school day I spent with my children at our local botanical garden. The pictures reminded me of the joy of opening up the world for my children. There are many different types and methods of homeschooling but most share the common thread of cracking open the world and giving our children a glimpse inside. This is one of many joys of homeschooling. I have been … Continue reading →

Getting Organized with Mayfair Lane

My struggle is organization. I have a 7th grader, a 5th grader, a Kindergartener, a toddler, one dog, one husband and a home. That is a lot of work by itself but when you add in homeschooling, writing, blogging, writing unit studies, and tackling a mountain of laundry life can seem overwhelming. Homeschooling alone is a full time job. So anything that can help keep me on track, sane and organized catches my eye. However, I also need organizational tools that are easy to find, easy to manage and basically in my face. This is where Mayfair Lane comes into … Continue reading →

Ease of Scheduling

As an LDS family, we’ve chosen to enroll our daughter in a church-sponsored religion class taught at our local junior high. This class is called seminary, and it’s like attending church, but it goes deeper into discussing religious topics. She’s having a wonderful time, but we did get off to a rough start. First of all, she’s scheduled to attend on an A day. They gave me a chart which shows me which days are A days and which days are B days. Pretty much it’s every other day, but if there’s a holiday, it gets messed up, so we … Continue reading →

Fighting Feelings of Failure

Moms love their kids. The love is such that a mom is constantly concerned with her child’s well being. A mom feels a vested interest in every part of her child’s life. When a mom takes on the task of homeschooling she takes on a greater responsibility that is pure joy yet is not without pain. When we go through dark times we often feel we are alone. We also begin the dangerous road of comparing ourselves to other moms who appear to have it together. This causes feelings of failure and temptations to leave homeschooling behind. When our house … Continue reading →