Welcome to Day 10, our last day of Homeschooling Enrichment! Now that we’ve gotten all the heavy stuff out of the way, I wanted to spend our last day of the series talking about how to create a working schedule, and give some structure to your day! My hope is to give you some tangible things you can do to help facilitate a smoother less frustrating schooling day! Before we start in on the meat of our daily schedule planning, I want to take a short moment to talk about our time as moms. Our children are typically in our homes for approximately 18 years. After that they leave our nest and venture off into their own lives. For most of us that leaves a good 20+ years of no kids in our homes. When I think about it this way, suddenly my time with my children becomes much more precious to me. Let’s think back to day 2 where we talked about homeschooling as a ministry. Now take a minute to pray for an open heart. Next, I want you to sit down and make a list of all of your commitments … [Read more...]

Welcome to Day 9 of Homeschooling Enrichment! Now that we’ve discussed curriculum, today we’re going to talk about how to organize our homeschool room and all that fun curriculum you ordered! My hope is to give you some tangible things you can do to help facilitate a smoother less frustrating schooling day! Listen ladies (and gentlemen)…homeschooling isn’t for sissies or the faint hearted! This calling placed upon our lives is a blessed and difficult task. One that we will fail at miserably, if we strive to complete it in our own flesh. So what are our options? Well, if you haven’t started at Day 1, turn right back around and head back that way! If you’ve been with me the last 8 days then you should be spitting out your coffee yelling “Jesus! Jesus has the answers!” The prospect of starting to homeschool, or even continuing on through tomorrow, can be {ahem} slightly overwhelming. The good news is that we don’t have to do it on our own! God has provided us with … [Read more...]