When Your In-Laws are Coming…
When your in-laws are coming, You’ll decide to break from homeschooling for a week. And when you tell your kids…
A Mommy’s Life
That One Time when I was On TV
About a week ago, I got an e-mail from someone who randomly found Beyond Mommying. It’s not unusual for me…
Ways to Manage Lunch when Homeschooling
You know what really sucks about this whole keeping-tiny-humans-alive thing? Feeding them. Seems like a silly thing to complain about,…
All the People and All the Things
Every once in awhile, I look back at posts from year’s past. With Mother’s Day being a Sunday holiday and…
When Loss Looks Like You
We’re not strangers to death around here. Four grandparents in 18 months, my aunt less than a year before that…
What Makes a Happy Homemaker? (and why do I want to be one?)
I’ve never really liked the term “stay-at-home mom” because that’s not what I do. A more accurate term would be…
I Hate the Idea of Mommy “Me Time”
I’m a busy mommy to four. I homeschool my daughters while trying to keep my sons from destroying the house.…
Life as We Knew It, Part 3
This is the final part of the a three-post series. Three different events, one after the other, that have changed…
Life as We Knew It, Part 2
Even when you know something is going to happen and you’ve had plenty of time to prepare, the blow is…
Life as We Knew It, Part 1
They say things happen in threes. That life blows will come three at a time. It’s assumed that once three…