Homeschooling & Family
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Same Food, Different Times: Why Making Meals Ahead Isn’t Cheating
I used to believe that being a good mom meant cooking every meal from scratch the moment we were ready to eat it. Fresh pancakes on Saturday morning. Chicken salad made right before lunch. Everything prepared in the moment, served warm from the stove. Then reality hit: four kids, homeschooling, a baby who doesn’t care about my cooking schedule, and the simple truth that some days I barely have energy to think about what we’re eating, let alone prepare it from scratch. That’s when I discovered something revolutionary: making food ahead of time is literally the same as making it the day we eat it. Same ingredients, same love, same…
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Give Yourself Grace This Homeschool Season
Sweet mama, take a deep breath with me. August is here, and with it comes that familiar flutter of panic in homeschool Facebook groups. The posts are flooding in: “Still waiting on my math curriculum!” “My kids have outgrown last year’s books and nothing has shipped yet!” “I feel so behind and we haven’t even started!” Here’s what I wish someone had told me last year during my first year of fully homeschooling: The beauty of homeschooling isn’t in having everything perfectly planned and lined up on day one. The beauty is that WE set the schedule. Math books delayed? We’ve spent entire mornings playing Monopoly, naturally covering money math,…
