Author Archives: Michelle

School Planning for Highschoolers

Summer is almost here. April and May have been whirlwind months in my house hold – year end concerts and recitals, culminating projects from a semester’s worth of work and now EXAMS. We spent April mapping out for our highschoolers what their last few years at home would look like and what classes we’d like […]

Finishing Strong

To echo Priscilla’s post, I also come from a family that makes commitments and that likes to think they can follow through on them. :> So here’s another go round for me on the mother’s homeschooling blog after a brief break to regroup in my own home school! I also love the countdown until the […]

What hit me?

Wow, a month has gone by since I last entered a blog post about our homeschooling experience. In the mean time, EVERYTHING has started in full swing and I feel like I am in what Tapestry of Grace curriculum writer Marcia Sommerville calls “The Six Week Fog”. All my kids have started all their classes […]

Schools started! Sort of….

“And we’re off….like a dirty shirt” my dad used to say as we’d scramble out the door for a family activity barely dressed and hardly ready to go, herding out with our coats half on and hoping we hadn’t left a curling iron or the stove still on. Our first week of school this week, […]

Lightbulbs, school planning and prayer

I am always amazed at how God leads us in our decision making specifically in the area of homeschooling from year to year. Just recently, my second son Jonathan and I were out in the garden weeding in the blazing hot sun for a long stretch of time. With nothing but the buzzing of an […]

Introductions

Hello Home schooling friends, I, Michelle Cordle, am one of the mom’s who has been appointed to share of my life as a mother of six, homeschooling through thick and thin. Even since my first discussion with Priscilla about helping with this blog, I have gone through some big highs and lows of daily life […]