This situation is a mess.  I don’t think it’s really about homeschooling at all; it seems to be about the divorce proceedings of one family who happens to homeschool.  I mean, check it out.  The dad cheats on the mom, she divorces him.  In divorce court, it suddenly comes out that dad doesn’t want the [...]

Bella Sara is a website for girls who love horses…and we all know that every girl goes through a horse phase at some point.  I certainly did, and so did my daughters. My mom actually rode when she was younger.  The Bella Sara site has games, character pages, world building, art pages, and collectible horses [...]

So, tonight was my mother-in-law’s 60th birthday party.  We traveled 3 hours to get to the city where the rest of our family lives, with plans to go out to dinner with her kids, grandkids, brothers, etc.  There was a nice group of 15 of us altogether.  About half an hour into the road trip, [...]

I don’t know how things are in your neighborhood, but around here, we’ve got so many illnesses going around, I’m sometimes afraid to take the kids to the doctor, because who knows what else they could pick up?   I count myself very lucky that our health care provider is also a neighbor and friend, so [...]

While I always appreciate the extra hour of sleep in the Fall, when we “fall back,” that is, we set our clocks back an hour, the one in the Spring doesn’t really bug me that much.  I mean, it’s not like I get enough sleep, anyway, so what’s an hour here or there? But it [...]