• At What Age Does my Homeschooling Need to Get Serious?
    Dec 31 2025

    We all want to enjoy the little years of homeschooling, but we also have this nagging feeling we aren't doing enough. When do we need to get serious about when and what we are teaching?

    Get my book: Flexible Homeschool Planning
    to make your plans work no matter what kind of week you've had!

    Resources mentioned:

    • Podcast #26 - How Many Hours Does It Take to Homeschool?
    • Podcast #138 - Tests Don't Teach
    • Podcast #178 - Testing Your Child's Knowledge Without Tests
    • Podcast #183 - Creating a Homeschool Transcript
    • How Many Hours Does it Take to Homeschool? (free download)
    • Preschool & Kindergarten Curriculum for Large Families
    • Wonderment Curriculum
    • Review of Peaceful Preschool
    • Tapestry of Grace (page full of resources on my blog)
    • How we use Apologia Science
    • Berean Builders Science

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    17 min
  • The Mother-in-Law I Never Wanted to Be
    Dec 9 2025

    We all intend to be great at this mother-in-law thing, but it tends to be a bit of an ugly mess as we learn a whole new parenting role.

    Resources mentioned:

    • Podcast 185 - The Black Wedding Dress
    • Podcast 80 - Mistakes We Made Parenting Our College Student Who Lived at Home
    • Podcast 102 - Homeschool to College
    • Podcast 161 - Mothering Sons into Adulthood
    • Podcast 163 - Spending Time with Your Teens
    • More Than Grand website
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    27 min
  • The Black Wedding Dress that Shocked the Conservative Homeschool World
    Nov 11 2025

    My daughter's black wedding dress shocked a lot of people. Some comments were downright ugly, but they sparked a conversation that needs to be had in the conservative homeschool world - What are we teaching our children about appearances and "fitting in."

    • Original Facebook post
    • She Wears Skirts Series
    • Jinger Dugger's Book - Become Free Indeed

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    26 min
  • Living in the Sandwich Generation
    Oct 16 2025

    Caring for aging parents while still caring for young children at home is happening more and more to my generation. This is my story and my way of managing it all.

    Resources mentioned:

    • Home Blessing (once a week house cleaning)
    • Massage Chair we bought for my mom

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    28 min
  • Creating a Homeschool Transcript
    May 13 2025

    Take the mystery out of making a high school transcript for your homeschooler!

    Resources mentioned:

    • Homeschool Graduation Requirements - A Simple Plan (post)
    • Lee Binz The HomeScholar (Total Transcript Solutions)
    • Homeschool Hall
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    29 min
  • 3 Reasons Planners Don't Work
    Apr 22 2025

    Have planners never worked for you? Wish you could figure out a way to make them work or at least get your life organized? This podcast is for you!

    Get the book that revolutionized my homeschool planning!
    Flexible Homeschool Planning

    Resources mentioned:

    • Podcast #4 - Making Homeschool Planning Easy
    • Tapestry of Grace
    • Peaceful Press
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    17 min
  • Connecting Eden & Heaven in Your Homemaking
    Apr 3 2025

    Do you long for perfection in your homemaking? Do you efforts never seem good enough? It's time we look to the Bible for the truth about this longing for perfection.

    Get the book on realistic homemaking:
    Home Management for the Homeschool Mom

    Resources mentioned:

    • Podcast 181 - Messy Mommies
    • The Sabbath by A. Heschel
    • Theology of Home
    • The Bible Project - Genesis
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    17 min
  • Messy Mommies
    Mar 11 2025

    Are you a messy mommy? I certainly qualified for that title for many years. This podcast dives into how I turned that homemaking ship around!

    Get the book! - Home Management for the Homeschool Mom

    Resources mentioned:

    • Cleaning with Children Podcast Series: Podcast #46, Podcast #47, Podcast #48, Podcast #49
    • Half My Stuff Saturday (blog series from 2010)
    • FLYLady.net
    • Jesus Doesn't Care About Your Messy House (book by Dana K. White)
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    21 min