I am really excited to share a guest post with you today. This post was written by Angela Dicken who I have had the pleasure of following on Instagram for quite some time now. This is a post that speaks to my heart and I know it will hit home to a lot of my fellow homeschooling mamas. Enjoy!     I was in junior high before I realized college was optional. The way college was talked about in my family was as if it was the 13th grade and as mandatory as high school. Higher education is a higher priority. Now, I’m homeschooling my kids and taking the responsibility…

Since we’ve gotten back into our groove of homeschooling without a curriculum again I’ve come to realize how many free resources we use in our day. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love buying materials for our homeschool (can someone say all. the. books.??), but because we like to study a wide variety of subjects and topics it’s nice to have a good stream of free resources to pull from as well.     I recently took the time to sit and write out our favorite free homeschool resources and was surprised to find the list getting longer and longer and I’m sure some more will come to my mind…

I’ve been surprised in the years that we’ve been homeschooling to find out just how many homeschooling moms also homeschool. The majority of them work from home but some of them even manage to work outside the home! There are a variety of reasons mother’s homeschool and work, for some they really aren’t given any other option and others make the choice. For me working at home has been a choice I’ve made. Originally, back before we even had kids I told Jared that after the one year maternity leave we get here in Canada I would want to go back to work. Sometimes I feel like I blindsided him…