The following article is taken from chapter 14 of The Convivial Homeschool: Gospel Encouragement for Keeping Your Sanity While Living and Learning Alongside Your Kids, Mystie’s first full, paperback book – now available here. Rest…
Housework can feel like a rat race. A rat race we’re losing. If you ever feel overwhelmed by housework or frustrated by your lack of progress (and who hasn’t?!), then you need a deep breath…
Sometimes it feels like all we do is scurry around from one task to another, always busy but never getting anywhere. The best way out of the rat-race feeling is to pause and regroup with…
Why we need weekly dashboards Do you ever feel like you aren’t gaining the traction you’d like to with your planning efforts? I totally relate. I think we’ve all experienced the confusion and frustration of…
1. I have a responsible, self-directed graduate. My oldest graduated this month. It’s pretty awesome. For the last 18 months or so I have not only not checked on his homework, I haven’t even known…
“Mom, I’m bored!” It happens so often. We’ve been doing school for weeks on end, and we’re tired. We all – mother and children – are desperately looking forward to the upcoming break, whether it’s…
Dinner is the most important family time we have every day, but often we go into it harried and exhausted. We are hectic, getting food on the table with no energy left. A menu plan…
There’s no doubt about it: Homeschooling makes a house messy. It seems like having a homeschool room – especially an organized homeschool room – would make the mess go away or at least stay away….
1. Repetitious Bible Reading is a beautiful thing I finished my second time through the school-year Bible Reading Challenge, reading the entire Bible over 9 months. I absolutely love this plan. I don’t know why…
1. I can hack grad work. I finished (and passed!) my NSA grad class on the history of classical Christian education with Dr. Schlect! It was a great class. The main reason I took the…