Graduation 2025

Last month (May) my last child completed her home education and had her final law required evaluation. This has been a case of mixed emotions for me. I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to facilitate education of my children at home using the materials we wanted to use and what they wanted to study. I’ve enjoyed the freedom we had to shape our days any way we wanted and allowed them to explore topics they were interested in, all the while checking off the requirements in the law text. I got to watch my children grow and teach them my values and from our Christian worldview. I never minded the sacrifice of my time or money to do it. It was way beyond worth it to keep them out of the public school system. My children never suffered academically or socially. But now that chapter is over, so what’s next for this former homeschool mom? I just don’t know. Not yet. I wish in some respects that I was qualified to be an evaluator for other home educating families, but I wouldn’t meet the law requirements. I want to keep the resources here on my blog for however long they are relevant for anyone needing help or forms to print out. But, I also want to transition my blog into something more relevant to where I’m at right now. I have other blogs floating around the internet that I just am not going to resurrect and not ready to let this one go. For now, nothing is going to change but posts may cease until I decide on a direction to go.

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The final year

After 7 years of homeschooling my children I am down to my last 7 months and my remaining child will be finished with her 8th school year at home and officially graduated. She began learning at home at the beginning of her 5th grade school year while her brother began at the beginning of his 7th grade school year and has been attending college since last fall. It’s a strange place to be in and if you’re a veteran home education parent you probably understand. This has been a journey and its been wonderful. There is some relief in being done as well as…what now? I’m excited and maybe a bit sad at the same time. Even brick and mortar school parents feel this way, except my job for 7 years has been that of home educator, supervisor, instructor, counselor, administrator, etc. My job is ending. My children aren’t leaving the nest yet, and that will be a whole other experience. My son attends a somewhat local school so he’s able to live at home to help him save money. My daughter is still undecided what she wants to do post graduation, and that’s okay. Right now she is thinking of working for now and decide on school or whatever later and not rush in to anything. Even her brother ended up changing his mind in college by changing his major (completely normal).

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