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The 2021 Homeschool Year is Over, and I Learned This
Oh, to be a young mom planning her curriculum for the year… (despite the fact that I didn’t buy a planner) It’s summer of 2020 in Colorado. But in a nerdy second-generation homeschooler corner of my brain, it’s almost fall. Montessori cups and Waldorf toys jump in and out of my online shopping cart. My thrift…
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10 Things I’m Doing Differently Next Homeschool Year
For starters, I’m going to get a planner. It wasn’t a hard decision for us to homeschool this past year. For one thing, the pandemic. For another, we did it the year before (albeit Pre-K and Pre-Nursery). As a second generation homeschooler, I jumped into Kindergarten and Nursery school with both feet. And no planner. …
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My Return: A Blog Story About Coming Back to the Light
Well, I’m finally hitting ‘publish’ again. “What will this blog really contribute to society?” It’s an existential question I find myself (hi, a melancholic!) asking myself from time to time. If you’re familiar with personality tests, I am an INFP, melancholic (primary), enneagram 2 wing 1. Basically: I like things to have a ‘higher’ purpose in…
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Live Every Day as Though it’s September 12
9-11 is a relevant date, every day of the year, every year. For many of us, our life has a before 9-11 phase and a post 9-11 phase. We never mix the two up. We can’t. And usually, every year I post something on the memorial of 9-11 to remember with the rest of the USA…
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Why Worrying is Overrated in Military Life
I’m a worrier. Not a warrior. A worrier. I didn’t use to be. In my days of innocent youth, the only thing that caused me stress was an enormous workload of college homework, or interpersonal conflict with people I couldn’t avoid. The latter still stresses me out. (old habits die hard?) But really– it didn’t…
