Curing The Overwhelmed Homeschooling Parent Syndrome

What is the cure for Overwhelmed Home Schooling Parent Syndrome?  

Find yourself a homeschool convention to attend this year. I challenge you to do this and see what you can come away with. Post back and let us know. 

You will love attending, the first one may be a bit overwhelming, but you will take away so much! 

Spend your convention evenings jotting down notes and thinking things through. Then the next day talk with vendors and the speakers to get your questions answered. 

Here is an article (it's an oldie but a goodie) to give you more encouragement Curing Overwhelmed Home Schooling Parent Syndrome

Last year many homeschool conferences were virtual, we hope that this year will be different.  
Let us know what homeschool conferences you have attended and what your favorite part of the conference is.

Does this make your heart ache?

My little Powder Monkey on the left, at a Civil War Re-Enactment.

I got this from a friend this week, made my heart ache.

"A note from Mrs.______, my son's new teacher in honor of next Monday, the first day of school :

'Twas the night before school started,
When all through the town,
The parents were cheering,
It was a riotous sound!
By eight, kids were washed
And tucked into bed...
When memories of homework
Filled them with dread.

New pencils, new folders, new notebooks, too!
New teachers, new friends...
Their anxiety grew!
The parents just giggled when
They learned of this fright
And shouted upstairs-
"Go to bed! It's a school night!"

I've heard a few of my son's friends complaining about the new teachers that they are going to have for school this year. I ask my son if he told his friends "Look at me, I've had the same teacher for 7 years! LOL." He just smiled and told me "NO!" The kids have teased him about starting back to school in July, but what those kids miss out on is our AWESOME fall break that we take to attend fall festivals, shopping trips to the Amish lands, Civil War Re-Enactment weekend, and our exciting time of going to see Dr. Ben Carson speak. Our classroom does not have 4 walls, our classroom is our God given world.

What excites you about this new year of homeschooling?

Hello Monday & a busy week

This week my mother is coming to visit for about a month and a half....longer if we can talk her into it! Once she gets around her grandson she does not want to leave  :O)

We are working on getting the butchering chickens moved outside this week, they are getting so big! And thinking about getting in another bunch, but not sure.

Spending part of the week dealing with medical billing stuff. Fighting insurance on a few things like a $1,000+ ambulance bill that they don't want to pay for when I was transferred from a small hospital to a larger one, allergy testing that they don't think was medically necessary......lol, even thought that solved like 95% of my problems.

So sounds like a fun and busy week combined.
Have a great week!

Moe