Homeschool Helps Homeschooling

When Fear Steals Your Homeschooling Joy

I am a veteran homeschooling mum with two homeschool graduates and there are a few things I wish I had known as we moved through our highschooling homeschool years. One of those things is tackling the fear that comes with homeschooling through high school. I want to speak about guarding your hearts against allowing fear …

Homeschool Helps Homeschooling

The Overwhelmed Homeschool Mother

Choosing to homeschool our children was the best decision we have ever made. It has been a journey of excitement  lots of joyful memories and experiences, discovery, bonding, learning and growing. It has also been a journey peppered with learning and character challenges, exhaustion, tears and doubt. This comes with the territory and anyone who tries …

Hearth & Home Plan The Home

Budgeting Basics: The Envelope Budgeting System

With inflation biting and with our money having to stretch further than ever before I thought I would re-look at what the Bible has to say about managing our financial resources and get back to budgeting basics and what worked so well for us for so many years, the envelope budgeting system. I know that …

Homeschooling Nature Study

How I Plan Our Homeschool Nature Study Lessons

Homeschool nature study books on a bookshelf

We have used the Homeschool Nature Study Lessons and the Handbook of Nature Study in our homeschool for many years. As a homeschool mom, I appreciate the fact that it’s an easy way to include weekly nature study without it becoming an overwhelming task. Following the retirement of the founding author of the Outdoor Hour …

Dicipleship for Parents Faith

6 Ways to Walk Mindfully With Jesus Throughout Your Day

Each morning I wake up with the best intentions to get through the day being the mother that I dream of being. That mother is gracious and serene. She does not get flustered, terribly annoyed or yell at her children. She deals with the day’s challenges with quiet confidence and kindness is the rule upon …