The Sun Does Not Shine Out of My Arse; A Very Real Homeschool Day
We owe it to the homeschool newbies to keep it real… Some days all mine want to do is binge watch SpongeBob and gorge on peanut butter stuffed pretzels. And I’d like to hideout in my room and binge watch the back of my eyelids, but this stuff won’t learn itself!
Man Learns He’s Going to be a Father, What Happens Next is Startling
It is almost too shocking to write down… Of all the ways he could have reacted, actions he could have taken, his response would be deemed excessive by many, to say the least. Are you ready for it? Brace yourself. When this man heard the life altering news of his sentencing into fatherhood he…
Mom Gets A Day Off! (To Wander Around Aimlessly?)
Oh the irony. To the 3rd power. And the third time’s a charm. So, obviously the first bit of irony being that I have pined away for a couple of weeks about the moment I could step out without the boys and go do the 15,431 things I’d filed away in my...
No, I Certainly Will NOT Tell You Which Curriculum is Best!
Lord, no! I’d rather discuss how to build walls and burn bridges with Trump or how to avoid pesky government spam with Hillary!
Yes, My Kids Have Asked to go to School
And it was like being stabbed in the heart with the pretty blue math compass I bought him for 5th grade math! “… I just wanted to see what middle school is like and meet some new friends.” …I’m not protecting him. I’m providing him with an alternate route with which to emerge having lost none of himself.
Handwriting and Other Homeschool Torture Devices
Sometimes I just sit around thinking up ways I can provoke my kid’s groans and hissy fits, so I can make my day especially obnoxious, long and unbearable. A day filled with carefully calculated ways to be griped at and made to feel mean and overbearing. Because that is what it’s all about. Me making their lives miserable.
Homeschool: The Not so Expected First Year Expectations
…In fact don’t expect anything. Then you don’t have to feel like a failure if/when the following happens: …
I’m So Much More Fun Than This Curriculum
They’re trying to make me look bad in front of my boys! Don’t get me wrong, I love our math curriculum. But desperate times, addition, subtraction or division, call for desperate measures. Not in inches or meters. Let’s try….Hotwheels! Yes! How many Hotwheels long is the dog!?
Waffle Irons, And Other things I Don’t Want for Mother’s Day
Once upon a long time ago, I was maybe 5 years old, and I talked my dad into buying my mom a waffle iron for Mother’s Day. I remember this because, one: I love waffles. And two: because my mother brings it up every chance she gets. That year she was, no doubt,...Hi! I’m Jennifer…
…writer & speaker of homeschool truth, humor and inspiration. Laugh along as I keep things ‘real’ about life as homeschool family. Turns out…you don’t have to raise goats or wear denim jumpers after all!
