Mt. Sophia Ideas

Who is your homeschooler?
If I ran into you in an elevator and asked you to describe your homeschooler(s), could you give me a one-minute answer?
(This by the way, is called an elevator pitch.)
If you don’t have an elevator pitch about your kids, maybe your mission has become fuzzy?
Why are you homeschooling? What are you hoping [...]

This post ran recently at 7sistershomeschool.com. We had so much fun with it, that I am going to share it here today, and tomorrow the most awesome comment from Maureen: A Homeschooler’s Psalm 23. Stay tuned…

If I speak in the tongues of French or Spanish, but do not have love, I am only a resounding [...]

As you can see by the lack of posts during September, I’ve been real busy.
What is happening is that I hit one of those pivotal life transitions. You know the kind? You are moseying along living life as usual and all of a sudden you realize the little country road was merging onto I-95.
So I’ve [...]

We delivered our third son to college this week, and my nest is feeling increasingly quiet. This poem is for him, but I thought I would share it here as well.
Wings Unfurled
You burst into my life one day
So rushed to make your mark
You never even stopped to breathe
And almost broke my heart
Our [...]

While drinking my morning tea on April Fools’ Day, I stumbled across an article entitled, “Increasing Number of Parents Opting to Have Their Children School-Homed.”
It’s from The Onion, a fake newspaper/news site, full of satire and spoofs of current culture.  And while I can’t recommend the site in general (it ranges from the completely innocuous [...]