We didn’t purposely seek out homeschooling for our children. I was a teacher who left the classroom to become a trainer to other teachers throughout the Southeast. My husband was an administrator in public schools. When we had our first son we put him in the local school, despite a calling I felt toward homeschooling. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t motivated for selfish reasons. After moving my son and putting him and my younger son in a Christian school, I still felt the call toward homeschooling. That is when I was convinced this was what we were supposed to do. Thus, our homeschooling journey began. Now that…
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Homeschooling is hard. Homeschooling during a crisis is even harder. How do I know? Friend, I have been living it. I had to step away from blogging quite some time and let me tell you why. In the past year, we have experienced so much loss. My stepfather passed away suddenly — in fact as of this writing, we have had five deaths in the family. My husband fought and beat cancer again and two close friends of the family passed away. Talk about being on auto-pilot. Who’s had time to process, grieve, cry or anything else? Not me. It’s been a rough and emotionally exhausting few months. (My shining…
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Over the years, I have seen a lot of people give reasons why they can’t homeschool their children. I understand it, I really do. Before I started homeschooling my son, I was convinced that I would never be able to do it, either. Two weeks before my son asked me to homeschool him, I was talking with a couple of ladies I’d recently met. When I found out that they homeschooled, my first reaction was something along the lines of, “I’m sure it’s great, but y’all are nuts.” (Yes, I live in the South!) Our Unexpected Homeschool Journey Fast forward a couple of weeks to my son’s first day at…
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