Category Archives: MomtoMom

In August, my daughter and I took a short trip to Ireland — a gift from my husband, who knows that I love to travel, and have little opportunity to do so. We saw and experienced some of the things we expected to see there, but a few things really surprised me. One of our […]

Homeschooling is a blessing.  I was reminded of that as a I shuttled my three kids from piano lessons (where we furiously flew through Spelling and Math, check, check) on to Swim Team practice where we’ll camp by the pool  with our books, Nooks, and computers and splash away the next 2 ½ hours.   Have […]

I have been teaching two of my granddaughters for three years now, and this year we added a couple more kids to the mix….I’m having a good time with that. BUT, I have long wanted to do something with my 5 grandsons who live in the NRV. This year they are 6, 7, and 8, […]

Wow, a month has gone by since I last entered a blog post about our homeschooling experience. In the mean time, EVERYTHING has started in full swing and I feel like I am in what Tapestry of Grace curriculum writer Marcia Sommerville calls “The Six Week Fog”. All my kids have started all their classes […]

My family has been reading SUCH a good book after breakfast in the mornings. It is Bob Schultz’ book entitled, Created for Work — subtitled, “Practical Insights for Young Men.” Someone in our church recommended this to my son-in-law, and I’m so glad they did. I think I had vaguely heard of Bob Schultz’ work […]

I want to teach my children how to pray for missionaries, but at times I struggle to know what to pray beyond the general needs of safety and opportunity for the gospel, which is why I was thrilled to discover a list of specifics near the end of Randy Alcorn’s excellent novel  Safely Home, a […]

School is in, and I am finding that I need to tighten things that I have let slip over the summer. Perhaps some of you are finding the same thing. One of the areas that always trips us up is the constancy of food preparation. Choosing what to have for each meal is a mind-draining […]

As the time for starting school came nearer, each year, I would usually have one of two feelings that would assail me. I always looked forward to summer, and to the lifting of that schedule that had become to feel more like a straitjacket. But, after a summer of “freedom”, I really looked forward to […]

“And we’re off….like a dirty shirt” my dad used to say as we’d scramble out the door for a family activity barely dressed and hardly  ready to go, herding out with our coats half on and hoping we hadn’t left a curling iron or the stove still on. Our first week of school this week, […]

One of the things that I greatly disliked, and STILL have trouble with, is the feeling of being pressured. Part of that is because I am a naturally lazy person, and have always looked for opportunities to slide into a chair and read. One of my daughters takes after her grandmother, who described herself as […]

  Is your calendar already filling up for the school year?  We at GRHE  understand that attending home school conferences is hard  (and feeling guilty about not attending them is hard too!). That’s why this year we’ve decided to come to you.  Look for GRHE representatives in the bleachers at soccer practices this fall as […]

Well, it’s happened again — a summer is rapidly slipping away, and I’ve still lots to accomplish before it is over. Thoughts like that have me hyper-ventilating when I wake up, and I need even more the blessed grace of the Lord to calm me down. MY summer has been packed, and when I say […]

I am always amazed at how God leads us in our decision making specifically in the area of homeschooling from year to year. Just recently, my second son Jonathan and I were out in the garden weeding in the blazing hot sun for a long stretch of time. With nothing but the buzzing of an […]

My name is Ruth Winn and I have three children, ages 6, 8, and 11.  I’ve just finished my fourth year of homeschooling, so I’m the new kid on the block among the writers on this blog who have many more years of homeschooling wisdom and experience.  I look forward to learning from them. I […]

Hello Home schooling friends, I, Michelle Cordle, am one of the mom’s who has been appointed to share of my life as a mother of six, homeschooling through thick and thin. Even since my first discussion with Priscilla about helping with this blog, I have gone through some big highs and lows of daily life […]

This coming week is the 7th Annual Cousins Camp for the Trice family.  So, don’t expect much from me next week!  It always seems to involve a family reunion, too, because my daughter from Phoenix comes in, with her four kiddoes, and everyone wants time with Mike and Jenni. Cousins Camp is one of the […]

I am reading a book now that was published in 2008, but that was not on my radar then.  I am speaking of Alex and Brett Harris’ book called, Do Hard Things.  My kids were grown, and I read the blurb about it and thought, “How nice!”…..but felt like it was addressed to teens, and […]

Dear Friends, Sometimes when I am talking to discouraged mothers — and, let’s face it, we are ALL discouraged from time to time, and some of us more than others — I want to show them their future. Of course, I can’t do that, but I can show you the “future” that has happened to […]

As one of your hosts on this blog, I’d like to introduce myself.  I am a mother of six — home schooled for 19 years. We started in 1981, when I knew only two other families were home-schooling — one in Franklin County and one in Roanoke. I’m sure there were more here, but it […]

Dear GRHE Moms, Years ago — in the home schooling Dark Ages — one of the main problems was finding other home schoolers to expose our children to, and to be creative with, etc. Well, that problem is long gone! The new problem is in finding time to do all the things now available for […]