I usually save my craft posts for my column at Prime Parent’s Club. But you people! You worm your way into my thoughts and I want to make the people happy. After posting this on Instagram, and after a request from someone there, and after having so much fun at […]
My son sits across the dining room table, making wookie noises of distaste and frustration. I’m not trying to get him to eat his veggies; I’m asking him to write. Three little sentences about the book he is reading in Luitschool. He holds an orange flair pen and writes with […]
My daughter teases me. She tells her friends, “My mom bought a shirt because she wanted to understand it.” She uses verbal air quotes, and they all look at me, gawking. They look back at her and laugh. And run off. When I sit to create a garment, I have […]
When it came time to decide if we’d homeschool again next year, I asked my friend Katharine for help. She’s been teaching her 5 angels for ever, with a smile on her face. Whereas I was sure I was falling pretty short as homeschool mom of the year. I don’t […]
The Accidental Homeschooler Without rehashing a very long decision process that in retrospect seems confusing and short and slightly cloudy, it is enough to say that about this time last year our family decided to give homeschooling a shot. The reasons are as varied as my children and as fraught […]
I’ve been trying to write this post for two days. As some of you know, I’m in the middle of a year of homeschooling, and I kind of suck at it. I thank God every day my children are smarter than I am, because every day I feel like I’m […]
As most of my friends are shopping for the usual back-to-school items, I find myself teetering on a plane between sweet relief and deep grief; our family is not engaged in this yearly checking account suck. My children have attended the same school since our eldest, 13, was 3. But […]
