Friday, September 1, 2017

Homeschooling with Candra: Podcast Episode 13


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It’s been a year. Literally and figuratively. 

I catch you up on my life from Georgia to Mississippi and back to Georgia. I talk about our schedule last year, mom friends, how we did dinners, husbands long hours, Classical Conversations, how we finished up our year with a 5th grader, 3rd grader, and a 1st grader.


Then our summer and how we’ve transitioned to this new year doing school with a 6th grader, 4th grader, and 2nd grader. Did I mention a preschooler running around writing on the walls? Also discussing starting Essentials at CC for the first time (AKA maybe I will learn grammar finally). 


If nothing else you will walk away feeling more normal, less crazy, and think you're a better mom than me. For real though, I hope you are encouraged, learn something, laugh, and enjoyed this while you folded laundry.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Homeschooling with Ann (Part 2): Podcast Episode 12




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This episode I interview my friend, Ann, who is a homeschool mom to two boys ages 9 & 6, and a 2 year old girl (and one on the way!). Please enjoy our mostly uncut, unedited, un-technical and unprepared conversation.


This podcast interview was two hours, so I split it into Part 1 & Part 2. This is Part 2.

We cover how my husband and her shared the same superlative in high school, dyslexia, ADHD, being Holy Spirit led in a season to use a Christian school for one child, Danny Silk, knowing your child's love language, "Yes" kid dates, chores, list of assignment board, doing Classical Conversations at home, Community Bible Study (CBS), Math U See, Signapore math woes, media time, detoxing from the summer, when your child finally falls in love with reading, glasses, unfun days, schedules that work, photo math app, star walk app, and much more.

If nothing else you will walk away feeling more normal, less crazy, and think you're a better mom than both of us. For real though, I hope you are encouraged, learn something, laugh, and enjoyed this while you folded laundry.

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Homeschooling with Ann (Part 1): Podcast Episode 11



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This episode I interview my friend, Ann, who is a homeschool mom to two boys ages 9 & 6, and a 2 year old girl (and one on the way!). Please enjoy our mostly uncut, unedited, un-technical and unprepared conversation. 

This podcast interview was two hours, so I split it into Part 1 & Part 2. This is Part 1.


We cover how my husband her shared the same superlative in high school, dyslexia, ADHD, being Holy Spirit led in a season to use a Christian school for one child, Danny Silk, knowing your child's love language, "Yes" kid dates, chores, list of assignments board, doing Classical Conversations at home, Community Bible Study (CBS), Math U See, Singapore math woes, media time, detoxing from the summer, when your child finally falls in love with reading, glasses, unfun days, schedules that work, photo math app, star walk app, and much more.

If nothing else you will walk away feeling more normal, less crazy, and thinking you're better mom that both of us. For real though, I hope you are encouraged, learn something, laugh and enjoyed this while you folded laundry. 

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Friday, May 20, 2016

Homeschooling with Sunshine: Podcast Episode 10





This episode I interview my friend, Sunshine, who is a homeschool mom to two boys ages 7 & 5, and a 2 year old girl. Please enjoy our mostly uncut, unedited, un-technical and unprepared conversation. 

We cover how we met in college, her decision to pull her child out of school and homeschool, being a police officers wife, running a side sewing business, My Fathers World curriculum, pet fish, the need for homeschool mom support, bad days, schooling over the summer, time with daddy, schooling multiple kids at one time, bad words and much more. 

If nothing else you will walk away feeling more normal, less crazy, and think you're a better mom than both of us. For real though, I hope you are encouraged, learn something, laugh, and enjoyed this while you folded laundry.

Sunday, May 8, 2016

A Note To My Mommy Friends


Holidays like Mother’s Day make me extremely anxious. I feel as though there are too many wonderful people to be thankful for and connect with and simply not enough time. A blessed problem I know so many amazing moms? 

Motherhood has never been something I’ve ever done alone. Everything about it required I reach out to a veteran. I can’t even name all the times someone talked me down from a cliff over a rash I didn’t understand or a baby that wouldn’t latch, or a behavior I couldn’t tame. Moms out there [younger than me, my age, older than me, much other than me— all of them] reached out to me in the most God-appointed times and dropped names of good books, good sites, other good moms, or good practices to help me. 

If 10 years of being a mother has taught me anything--- it's that you need a tribe full of other mommies to make it.

Husbands are great, professionals are lovely, but the other moms… those are who I was txting late into the evening [or throughout the night]. They are the ones who prayed for me from the beginnings signs of labor, got a stranger to give me a tip over voicemail to get that first latch to happen, brought me rice milk ice cream when I couldn’t have dairy while nursing a picky tummy baby, warned me about projectile poop in the carseats, let me know about a sale on Carters pjs, and listened to me threaten to drive away if all of their teeth didn’t just come in supernaturally in the next one minute pain free. 

The moms I would sit with at the park feeling like I’d won a vacation just to talk to other humans who were bigger than 2 feet tall who always wanted something from me. Moms who got me. I mean really got me. Got the laundry piles, the grocery trips with toddlers and screaming nursing babies strapped to you, got the tantrums, got the yoga pants, got the messy bun, got the trashcan on wheels. The moms who mourned with you the loss your flat tummy, unscared even, boobs that still pointed up and hair that hadn’t fallen out. 

So many times I’ve avoided a Dr. visit or ER emergency because I called a mom. They listened, the encouraged, the prayed, they were a voice of reason in my fluctuation of hormones. Moms who had seen that lump, or experienced that pain or had a cream [or oil!] for that.

I can’t write to you what motherhood would have been like without them. In different seasons, different moms were nearer to me, but in all seasons there were just the right ones. For pregnancy, birthing, nursing, health, child training, homeschooling, and general mommy sanity checks.

A few words come to mind.

Coffee. Wine. Girls Night Out. Crying. Playdates. Laughing. Parks. More Coffee. Jesus... 

When I was down, they held me up, and when they were down, I held them up. Unless we were all down, then we just group txted till we all felt better. [Where were you group texting with my first three kids? For that matter, where were you DVR & smart phones with my first 3, I had to just nurse in the middle of the night and watch random episodes of Law & Order in the olden days.] 

When self judgement and a failure diagnosis had me in its grips, it was you who pulled me out with "me too" and "thats normal" and "it's going to be okay" "give yourself and the kids some grace" and yes "this too shall pass". 

I say all this to say, my friends, my dear sweet mommy friends, you have been such a treasure to me. Priceless in every way. I could not have gotten through this even one time, much less four times without you. It was always so comforting to know that I wasn’t the first person going through anything. Not the first person to have a strong willed child, or the first mommy to have a stubborn potty training child, or the first mom to have a dyslexic child, or the first mom miscarry. Through every trial and milestone you were there to say “I’ve been there, you will make it” and “I’m so proud of you, look what you’ve done!”

You are everything to me. I love you mommy friends.

Let this remind us all to reach out to each other even more. There are so many who could not write this because they have done so much alone. Jesus lead us to those who need a community, a tribe, a cheer section, someone to group text complain to! 

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Homeschooling with Andrea: Podcast Episode 9




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This episode I interview my friend, Andreawho is a homeschool mom to a 11,9,6 and 3 year old boys. Please enjoy our mostly uncut, unedited, un-technical and unprepared conversation.


We cover how we met online (ha!), her decision to homeschool from the beginning, being a pastors wife, homeschooling all boys, varies curriculums over the years, standardized testing, co-ops, activities (to do or not to do), the ups & downs from the moms (and kids) perspectives, and being a working mom.


If nothing else you will walk away feeling more normal, less crazy, and think you're a better mom than both of us. For real though, I hope you are encouraged, learn something, laugh, and enjoyed this while you folded laundry.

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Homeschooling with Lauren: Podcast Episode 8



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This episode I interview my friend, Lauren, who is deciding to potentially homeschool her 4 & 1 year old in the fall. Please enjoy our mostly uncut, unedited, un-technical and unprepared conversation.

We cover my philosophy on how preschool aged kids should be educated through later elementary (aka to push worksheets or not to push worksheets]. Charlotte Mason theories, little boys and the wiggles, getting outside, art, field trips, Classical Conversations and curriculums such as: My Fathers World, Abeka, Sonlight, and other free online curriculums [including sites, apps, and additional materials for pre-k and k children].

This is a great podcast to listen to if you are wondering if you should put your child in pre-k or not, and if you homeschool them exactly how much to do/spend and what is evolved. Last, but not least, my regrets, and lessons learned over the years teaching my little ones pre-k & k.

If nothing else you will walk away feelings more normal, less crazy, and think you're a better mom than both of us. For real though, I hope you are encouraged, learn something, laugh, and enjoy this while you folded laundry.

In addition, you can refer to previous articles on my blog about pre-k & kindergarten.


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