Who is your homeschooler? If I ran into you in an elevator and asked you to describe your homeschooler(s), could you give me a one-minute answer? (This by the way, is called an elevator pitch.) If you don’t have an elevator pitch about your kids, maybe your mission has become fuzzy? Why are you homeschooling? [...]
Read moreWe ran this at 7sistershomeschool.com recently. It was so much fun that we decided to share it with our Mt. Sophia family. (Mostly so that tomorrow we can run Maureen’s comment: A Homeschooler’s Psalm 23.) If I speak in the tongues of French or Spanish, but do not have love, I am only a resounding [...]
Read moreEarlier this semester I had to give someone some relationship advice. The question of who loved whom — and what exactly love is — was central to our conversation. Then, a couple weekends back, my sister married a very awesome guy. I naturally had to write them a long philosophical discourse on the nature of [...]
Read moreAs you can see by the lack of posts during September, I’ve been real busy. What is happening is that I hit one of those pivotal life transitions. You know the kind? You are moseying along living life as usual and all of a sudden you realize the little country road was merging onto I-95. [...]
Read moreWhile drinking my morning tea on April Fools’ Day, I stumbled across an article entitled, “Increasing Number of Parents Opting to Have Their Children School-Homed.” It’s from The Onion, a fake newspaper/news site, full of satire and spoofs of current culture. And while I can’t recommend the site in general (it ranges from the completely [...]
Read moreAllison Thorp is the maven of “cooking for a crowd”. I asked her to give us some help as we launch into the holiday season.- Vicki I have been asked to share some advice on cooking for large family gatherings. Although I am certainly no expert, I have had a fair amount of experience with [...]
Read more“I learned how to live with dust bunnies and enjoy it.” I always like to feel I am contributing something useful to other folks’ lives. So that is what my sister-in-law gleaned a few years back, when she and her family stayed with us for a couple of weeks while they waited for their new [...]
Read moreby Sabrina Justison The runner is in place. Her shoes are double-knotted, her muscles stretched and warm, her body hydrated. She is wearing her favorite color of spandex, and her ponytail feels secure. Every muscle tensed, she waits for the sound of the starter pistol. But just as that pistol fires, some troublemaking knucklehead tosses [...]
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