One of the beauties of homeschooling is the ability to control the calendar. (It’s a curse, too, but we can discuss that another day.) Today we’re having a snow day. Granted, all the local schools took their snow day yesterday. But hey! Better late than never, eh? Besides, we needed it today. Life has been [...]

I’ve been learning old lessons lately. Seems like I’d learn them and move on to new mistakes in life but nooooooo. Not me. By the time we arrived at life in the Earnest Parenting household last week Friday I was completely fried. The stress of several situations had taken over. Have you ever felt like [...]

I am a person who is obsessed with keen on order. Most of life is manageable because I follow my own little rules and systems. For example: when I take off the puppy’s collar, I set it on the dresser near the garage door. Then whenever I need to take her out, I know exactly [...]

Holy cow, Internets. Life is spinning by so fast! When we finished the last school year I remember feeling like I was finishing a marathon, and if we could just make it to June things would relax and then I could get a few things done around here. HA. Soooo, now it’s September and we’re [...]

Welcome to September, Internets! How are you? Did August treat you well? I myself can’t answer that question because I’m still not sure where August went. I’m certain it was just July last week. So, how has everyone been feeling lately? Me…I’ve been a little stressed. Not tremendously so, just a little frayed around the [...]

Well, it looks like the boys survived me today. I wasn’t in a bad mood, but man! The control freak in me was very….controlling. Captain Earthquake lost his very first tooth (at 5! Is that too young? And it looks like there’s still something there where is tooth was. Possibly the root? Should I be [...]