Category: Parenting
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How do we get by? Homeschooling families talk about how to make ends meet
From the outside, homeschooling sometimes seems like a luxury to families who think they can’t afford to have one spouse “not working.” But homeschooling families say that no matter what their finances or their family structure, they find a way to make it work. Probably the commonest scenario is that the primary homeschooler has to…
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From scratch
Things are going a little overboard these days at my house. Something’s growing in my kitchen. No, we haven’t had an invasion of ants (though that has happened) or mold (ditto). It’s not that we’ve found a new unusual cuisine to pursue (though my husband is always on the lookout for that). I have started…
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Getting ready for life
My kids’ homeschool program is putting on their annual play this week. It’s a lot of work. One by one, kids and adults are melting down. At our house, we haven’t done much in the way of academics this week. I ask my daughter to do math and she says she needs to make a…
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I am a Cat Mother
At first, I didn’t really want to believe it. I tried to ignore it, but it didn’t go away. I suspected it had something to do with Tom’s visits. He comes by occasionally when I have an itch that needs scratching. Sometimes he just comes for companionship, which to him means arguing over the end…
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Ding, dong, the witch is dead…
Oh, bless the man who wrote that song. (Harold Arlen, by the way.) It serves as a theme song for so many days in my life. The first time was when Richard Nixon’s obituary appeared in the paper. I didn’t mean to think ill of the dead, but I went around unconsciously singing that song…