Ecclesiastes 8:15 talks about joy accompanying us in our work through all the days of our lives. I love that idea. And I also think it’s central to homeschooling. How can we teach without joy? How can our kids learn without joy? What is the point of carrying on, day after day, if there is [...]
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Homeschooling with Joy
Posted in Day to day homeschooling, Homeschool Planning, Workish Posts on February 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Dinner with Bob and Maggie Hogan
Posted in Day to day homeschooling, Workish Posts on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favourite parts of convention this year was dinner out with our key-note speaker and her husband. Maggie and Bob are full of wisdom and experience, but they’re also just fun to be around. We planned this dinner as a BC CHEC doorprize so we had a mom and her daughter join us [...]
Year end thoughts on Worldview
Posted in Life and other stuff, Workish Posts, tagged Christian education, worldview on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the last few weeks I’ve spent a lot of time listening. Listening to Mp3s from the BC Christian Home Educators’ Convention, listening to Greg Bitgood’s podcasts and listening to the last few sermons at church and I’ve been inundated with the importance of discipleship. Homeschooling has been revolutionary for me. I grew up attending [...]
Treating homeschooling as a job
Posted in Workish Posts on August 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not a “school at home” type of person. Things are pretty relaxed at our home and our school day has a certain ebb and flow to it. However, I also need some boundaries and guidelines or we can go weeks without doing much of anything. Homeschooling, whether it’s [...]
This is what I’m doing today
Posted in Workish Posts on August 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m wearing a skirt. And make-up. And my hair is up. And I had a Starbucks triple-grande-non-fat-vanilla cappucchino. Wheee! I’m working today. This is the one week out of the year that I spend three days in a row working outside of the home. It’s always an exciting time of year. Those are our teachers [...]
