Hubs and I are crazy hard workers. We both worked 3 jobs through college and now own our own business. It has its good points and bad ones, but homeschooling year round has worked really well for us for a few reasons. 1. Flexibility We own a business and homeschool for the lifestyle. We aren’t […] Read more…

We have been homeschooling for about 3 years now and what works for us seems to change every year. Siblings get older (or get added) and changes as we figure out what works for us as a family. Here are some past day in the life posts from previous years. Real-life homeschooling at its best. […] Read more…

One of the things I figured out the hard way, is that school is VERY simple to start. Math, reading, writing and lots of read aloud’s is all you need until they are proficient readers. Otherwise, you will spend hours spoon-feeding them everything else. Once we hit that point, though, block scheduling has been the […] Read more…

Because I am a book junkie, I have a ton of books and curriculum around. I collect it. And when planning for my kids school year, it frequently ends up as a “wish list.” By January, our homeschool never looks like the plan I make in August. And that’s totally cool. There is nothing wrong […] Read more…

And to end this week, I thought I would partake in the Homeschool Mother’s Journal and {pretty, happy, funny, real}. After all, we are being REAL here in this five day series of Real Life Homeschooling. While the first 4 posts were written and scheduled last week, this one is not. In my life this […] Read more…