Devotionals Homemaking Homeschooling Motherhood Planner Streams - Desert

Doing a new thing

Based on past performance, many of us can attest that doing a new thing is hard.   This is where some of us fall off the cliff — or don’t even try!  It takes determination to not allow past performance to thwart us from trying or doing a new thing! Doing a new thing is tough.  […]...
Homemaking Homeschooling Motherhood

the endearing faces

I stared blindly at the ceiling as I lay in bed and thought of the evening I’d just spent.  Sleep didn’t seem to come easily. Or soon.  I couldn’t stop thinking of them… their tender, lineless faces, bright smiles, dark hair and the playfulness of youth in their eyes.  And, I couldn’t help but — […]...
Devotionals Homemaking Homeschooling Parenting

What’s Pulling on Your Apron Strings

That might sound like a strange title to a message I want to share with you today, but perhaps by the time you finish reading this letter, you’ll have an idea and perhaps realize some things you’ve been wanting to take care of for some time. So, what’s pulling on your apron strings?  You know… […]...
Homeschooling NewsDuJour Parenting

The HomeSchool Community Remembers Christopher Klicka

The following, a tribute to Christopher Klicka,  April 2, 1961 – October 12, 2009.  The first of three parts at the Home School Legal Defense Association site: A Tribute  – Part One part 2 part 3...
Family Homeschooling my story

Another homeschooling year

So, yes… another homeschooling year has begun.  We’ve already had the usual variety of commitments — planned and unplanned, absences and extra-curricular activities: some sick, some tardy, some cutting class (uh, that would be two of the teachers :-O ), etc., etc. Three days into the new school year:  We’ve already had to revise our […]...
Homeschooling Potpourri

encouragement & geography today…

 I’m thinking of how our children learn, what motivates them the most and what creates the greatest results in homeschooling?  Yes! it’s enthusiasm and love — it’s saying to our children: I am so for you!!  I love you!! Maybe at home today we need to give a little more attention to what’s most important […]...
Homeschooling Potpourri Recipes

What’s for dinner? And more questions.

Every day… every day… day after day, there’s the dilemma:  what’s for dinner? Or… for many, the daily questions are more like: What’s for breakfast? When’s coffee? What’s for lunch? What’s for snack? What’s for dinner? Where’s the chocolate for me? Here are a few dinner recipes and you might also want to print up […]...
Family Homeschooling Motherhood

Another first day of school

  I woke up this morning with eager anticipation for the day: our 21st “first day of homeschool.”  In the early days of homeschooling, I would not have even guessed where we would be today — in terms of both where we’ve been or how many children have been taught at the table.  I could […]...
Homeschooling NewsDuJour

An eye on California…

Homeschool law. From the HSLDA E-lert Service June 25, 2008 QUICK LINKS HSLDA Home Page Join HSLDA Members Home Page HSLDA Bookstore You can only do so much… No one can be everywhere at once. And you can’t be at home, teaching your children, while monitoring your state’s legislature. Through electronic legislative services, HSLDA is […]...
Homeschooling More Slices of Life NewsDuJour

“Should Home-Schooling Be Illegal?”

That’s the title of an article in this week’s Parade magazine: Should Home-Schooling Be Illegal? I don’t often read much of the Sunday paper – well, that is, unless an article catches my eye or unless there’s a series I’m following. So this week, as I was tidying up the table, I was just glancing […]...