A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
This week’s topic was Healthy Eating. We can go at this in a lot of different ways, but one thing I wanted to focus on was our motivation and discipline. I think it’s easy to simply and generally want to eat healthy, but what is it that will actually drive us to it. We have…
The most requested information from our first week together was for some pointers on meal planning. I’m not an expert on this, but I have learned a lot over the last few years and below is everything I could think of that might make things run more smoothly for other meal makers.
This is the handout I gave our participants Thursday night…I am simply copying and pasting here and you can do the same. Copy this into a Word doc. and print as needed.
This first week we discussed the threats facing our kids in our current society. We made quesadillas and I handed out these 10 “health threats” on little strips of paper to discuss as we eat, just as a family could around a dinner table. The discussion notes in the following outline were in my notes,…
Winter in Tennessee is not our best time for offering beauty. The grasses are mostly brown, the trees are bare and the sky is more often gray than blue. Thankfully, seasons change, they don’t last, and though I wish fall lasted longer, and that spring would come earlier, and that summer weren’t so hot, and…
I am preparing for our third year of homeschool, and Owen’s first year of public school. He asked us at the end of last year if he could go to the public school this fall, and we decided that if he felt ready we would let him go.
Once again my phone was acting up. It wouldn’t hold a charge, wouldn’t open my e-mail because it claimed my storage is full. I deleted things, tried to clean it up, kept it plugged in, and generally treated it like a newborn infant, but it would not c…
We say it as a joke, a snide comment, a way to relate to others, but it’s true. Struggles are real. We can dress them up in pretty smiles and say we know it will all work out, but that trudging through the mud of disappointment and questions is not re…
I realize now that Ms. Nelson didn’t just love her students. It wasn’t simply her care and attention that made her memorable to us. She seemed to have an ability to challenge us that made us do things we didn’t know we could do. I loved every afterno…
Once upon a time there was a beautiful teacher named Patricia Nelson. She had thick dark hair, a bright smile that produced dimples on her cheeks and sparkles in her brown eyes. She was slender and seemed confident just by the way she carried herself.…