Inspiration

Homeschool Planning: Simple and Smart Tips
Let’s talk about planning your homeschool year! First, it’s important to find the right balance. Both under planning and overplanning can cause homeschooling to be less effective and more stressful. Decide on...
Homeschool Planning: Simple and Smart Tips
Let’s talk about planning your homeschool year! First, it’s important to find the right balance. Both under planning and overplanning can cause homeschooling to be less effective and more stressful. Decide on...

100 Fun and Easy Activities for Your Summer Buc...
It’s time to make those summer bucket lists! Get out the water hoses, build the campfires, and buy the marshmallows, but also keep reading for a list of unique and...
100 Fun and Easy Activities for Your Summer Buc...
It’s time to make those summer bucket lists! Get out the water hoses, build the campfires, and buy the marshmallows, but also keep reading for a list of unique and...

How to Start Homeschooling Mid-Year
Are you jumping into homeschooling mid-year and not sure how or where to start? Or are you switching from a different curriculum to The Good and the Beautiful mid-year? It...
How to Start Homeschooling Mid-Year
Are you jumping into homeschooling mid-year and not sure how or where to start? Or are you switching from a different curriculum to The Good and the Beautiful mid-year? It...

Homeschool and Socialization
More and more, it is recognized that homeschooling offers great socialization benefits. Often now, when I tell people my family homeschools, I hear things like, “Oh, yeah, my neighbors homeschool,...
Homeschool and Socialization
More and more, it is recognized that homeschooling offers great socialization benefits. Often now, when I tell people my family homeschools, I hear things like, “Oh, yeah, my neighbors homeschool,...

How to Homeschool When You Just Don’t Want To
I began my homeschool journey 13 years ago, when my oldest daughter was only 3. Those were amazing days of reading books, coloring, and long walks to the park. My...
How to Homeschool When You Just Don’t Want To
I began my homeschool journey 13 years ago, when my oldest daughter was only 3. Those were amazing days of reading books, coloring, and long walks to the park. My...

Why and How to Connect Kids to Nature
Did you know that children are spending half the amount of time outdoors than they did 20 years ago and that they are suffering mentally, physically, and academically because of...
Why and How to Connect Kids to Nature
Did you know that children are spending half the amount of time outdoors than they did 20 years ago and that they are suffering mentally, physically, and academically because of...

We Are the Clay, and Thou the Potter
Have you ever had a recurring nightmare? I have. It started when I was a very young child. I would be standing all alone in an empty room holding on...
We Are the Clay, and Thou the Potter
Have you ever had a recurring nightmare? I have. It started when I was a very young child. I would be standing all alone in an empty room holding on...

Feeling Overwhelmed: How Am I Supposed to Do Ev...
"Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10). I’m feeling overwhelmed. Wednesdays can be hard for me. Perhaps it’s because the warmth of Sunday has worn off, and...
Feeling Overwhelmed: How Am I Supposed to Do Ev...
"Be still, and know that I am God" (Psalm 46:10). I’m feeling overwhelmed. Wednesdays can be hard for me. Perhaps it’s because the warmth of Sunday has worn off, and...