I know that everyone's story is different but let's keep it real, homeschooling is WORK and if you're in it or thinking about starting to homeschool you want to hear the truth about what it's all about.  I have an ensemble of four beautiful, brilliant women who all homeschool.  These ladies are in the trenches eerrr day homeschooling in large families with seven kids to smaller families with two school-age children, with a diversity of grades/ages.   They share their stories about what life is really like homeschooling.  In Part 2 of this episode, we talk about outside criticism, skepticism, and opinions (that we didn't ask for! LoL).  These ladies get candid about their personal experiences with dealing with familial and friend criticism for their decision to homeschool THEIR children. We also discuss the "uglies" of things we would absolutely rather not do when we homeschool but sometimes have to "take one for the team" and do it because it needs to be done, for me that's art projects. I'm not crafty and I'd rather not but I swear I'm always at the table helping my daughter glue, paint, glitter, or cut something!  Finally, we share insight into what it feels like to be a homeschool mama and how we have learned or are learning to find a means of taking care of ourselves as we serve our family. 

I know that everyone's story is different but let's keep it real, homeschooling is WORK and if you're in it or thinking about starting to homeschool you want to hear the truth about what it's all about.  I have an ensemble of four beautiful, brilliant women who all homeschool.  These ladies are in the trenches eerrr day homeschooling in large families with seven kids to smaller families with two school-age children, with a diversity of grades/ages.   They share their stories about what life is really like homeschooling.  In Part 1 of this episode, we talk about what we enjoy most about homeschooling, our personal struggles with finding time for ourselves and self-care and we start to get into parental and public criticism and skepticism of families that homeschool (stay tuned for next week's Part 2).  

These incredibly gifted, beautiful, funny, fun, sexy, sweet, and sassy women are my sisters by blood or by water.  They have all crossed over the milestone of turning 40. Now, it's my turn.  In January I turned the big 4-0!  Let's Turn Up....but like you're 40 with two kids and a hubby so don't go too crazy. Lol.  I'm looking forward to this next phase of my life and I have happily leaped and landed into this new year with joy and anticipation.  I am a student of my experiences, I have gathered profound lessons along the way from the life I've lived however, it has been the wisdom and stories shared by other women that have kept me from many pitfalls and showed me how to regain my balance and get back up when I willingly or unwilling met my valleys. In this episode, I am surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses who testify of their own lessons learned along the way.  Meet me in the circle of wise women who share their stories and offer words of wisdom and resolutions of womanhood.