A few nights ago I sat at the dinner table, head in my hands, and sobbed. The reality that our low-key holiday break was coming to an end and it was time to buckle down with homeschool once again, had me feeling completely overwhelmed. The dawning of a new year - 365 (give or take) days of homeschool - felt paralyzing. Suffocating thoughts swarmed through my head. Jackson's education is on my shoulders. Teaching him to read is my responsibility. Yes, God has called us to Continue Reading
50 Gifts From Our Florida Vacation
We just returned from seven glorious days on the Emerald Coast. I didn't want to come home. I wasn't ready to face the crazy schedule that comes with being a homeschool and special needs mama. I didn't want to feel the stress. I wanted to stay in our happy place. The beach is where our family goes to breath. It's the place where Jackson is his happiest. This trip was much needed after a hard summer. It was the perfect week. We made memories, we relaxed and we recharged. Jackson told me he Continue Reading
A Little Bit About Our {Home} School…
Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin. (Zechariah 4:10a) That's the verse I've chosen for our first full year of homeschool. It seems only fitting. It's a good reminder that small steps and slow progress really do count. A few minutes of math here, a few minutes of reading there. Oral spelling tests in the car. Listening to audio books during our commute to speech therapy twice a week. It's all adding up to an education. A week ago, as I Continue Reading
Friday Favorites {September 7, 2018}
It's Friday! As you're reading this, I am headed to my happy place! In less than 24 hours my toes will be in the powdered sugar sand of the Emerald Coast. I am giddy! So is Jackson. Poor kid has been desperate to get to the beach all summer. When we decided to homeschool, we knew we could take our vacation after everyone else was back in school. It's been a long summer waiting for this day. We are so ready to be in our most favorite place! Here's a few things that made my list of Continue Reading
The Hardest Part of Special Needs Homeschooling
Last week we had Jackson's MAP testing with Epic Charter School - a computerized test that determine where he's at academically before we start a new school year. It was a complete disaster. We didn't even finish. I should have known it would be a disaster when Jackson woke up at 3 a.m. and never went back to sleep. I sat and watched him intentionally choose the wrong answers to questions I knew he could answer correctly. His anxiety was so high and he was so tired. He was doing whatever he Continue Reading