“Mama, what do you think about string theory?” This is the question I got on the way to TaeKwonDo lessons a couple of weeks ago. String theory? Seriously?! Did I mention that she is ten years old? In all honesty I was thinking about what I was going to feed my family on return from [...]

I used to think how great it was that as homeschoolers, my kids could avoid those pesky state-wide standardized tests the public school kids had to endure.   (Of course, it depends on the state, whether or not homeschoolers must take these tests, but in many states they either aren’t required at all, or are optional.)  [...]

At the beginning of each school year do you search for a new curriculum to use for homeschooling? I know that some people have this scramble every year, and I am overjoyed that I do not have that problem. When I decided to home school, I had already found the curriculum that I would use. [...]

There are so many types of homeschooling, and so much homeschool curricula to explore….There are public school online programs, classical education, Waldorf, Montessori, Charlotte Mason, unit studies, lapbooking, and….I’m sure there are more!  There are as many approaches to homeschooling as there are homeschoolers.   That’s a wonderful thing, but how do you choose what’s right [...]

Well as you can guess from the title of this post I live in NM.  It is absolutely gorgeous here.  It took me some time to get use to it, but I love it now.  We have four seasons that are very colorful.  When I moved here in 2003 that is was when I decided [...]