Parenting is hard. There’s no manual on how to do things. You just do the best that you can and hope that it’s good enough. For us, parenting is about raising responsible adults. We want our children to learn how to navigate life on their own as they grow. We want them to make wiseContinue reading “I Must Be Doing Something Right”
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Parenting a Child with Mental Illness
This is my daughter Inara back in 2011 when we officially began our homeschooling journey. She was in kindergarten at that point, and I had never homeschooled before. I had just recently given birth to my youngest daughter, Avalon, and now that I had 5 children who needed some form of childcare either after schoolContinue reading “Parenting a Child with Mental Illness”
Looking Back on 2019
New Year’s is a time to look ahead, but it’s also a time to look back on the year we’ve just left behind. 2019 was not a terrific year for me. The section of my planner/journal that documents highlights of the year is conspicuously blank. That isn’t to say that nothing good happened at all,Continue reading “Looking Back on 2019”
A Beautiful Mess 