Rest in the Homeschool Trench

Cultivating a restful homeschool looks different throughout the seasons of homeschool life. Are you feeling frustrated that your strategies from your early years aren't helping any more? Are you overwhelmed with teen drama? Are you wanting to really enjoy your homeschool days with your middle and high schoolers? Let's consider a few ways to cultivate a restful homeschool during the teen years.

There's no simple formula for cultivating a restful homeschool. There are many factors to evaluate and approaches to consider. One factor that affects how to approach homeschooling is your current season of life. Rest looks different in different seasons. If you have young children, a restful homeschool might seem impossible. Today, let's look at a few ways you can lay a foundation for a restful h...

How's everything going in your homeschool today? Are you having a restful day? When you think about cultivating a result homeschool, there are many factors to evaluate and many approaches to consider. Sometimes though, you need a quick idea to implement. That's what I want to share today: 3 ideas you can try right now to cultivate a restful homeschool today.

What can you expect as we begin the third year of the Rest in the Homeschool Trench podcast? Are you curious about what's going on in my personal life? Today, I have several sets of 3 - 3 things I'm thankful for, 3 ways I'm personally growing, 3 ways I'm cultivating rest, and 3 things coming soon on the podcast.

The Rest in the Homeschool Trench podcast is two years old! Thank you for joining me in this journey of cultivating a restful heart in the midst of busy homeschool days. Thank you for listening to the episodes, sending me messages of what you enjoyed, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Today, I want to share the top 5 episodes from the past 2 years, and I want to share a few things about t...

Do you need to take a break today? Maybe you would love a nap or vacation. Today we're looking at needing to pause to be renewed and able to continue. Let's look at 5 cues you need to take a break today, a moment to pause and seek Jesus so you can be renewed and return to your work of parenting and homeschooling.

What are your thoughts about the idea of rest? Maybe rest seems like an impossibility, too good to be true. Maybe rest seems like a lazy, easy way out for a homeschool mom. Do we really understand what true rest is? Let's look at 5 common misconceptions about rest.

You've been busy preparing for your new homeschool year. Hopefully, you're already convinced that the best way to prepare is by intentionally praying.  But what are you going to pray? Praying Scripture is always a good idea, so today we're looking at 10 verses you can pray for your homeschool year.

You;ve been diligent in preparing for your family's homeschool year by considering your activities, buying curriculum, and creating schedules. Hopefully, you have prepared yourself mentally just in case the plan doesn't work exactly as expected. But have you done the most important thing to prepare for your homeschool year? Let's find out.

As the beginning of the homeschool year draws near, you have probably been busy preparing. Are you mentally prepared that things might not go as expected? Are you emotionally prepared to continue even if homeschool life gets hard? Let's talk about 3 ways we as homeschool moms can prepare mentally and emotionally for the upcoming homeschool year.

It's almost time to start your homeschool year. Are you ready? Today, I have ten questions for you to consider as you finish your preparations and prepare to start back to school.

What do your homeschool mornings look like? Are they filled with joy and peace? If not, maybe it's time to focus on something different first thing in the morning. Let's look at one more joyful morning habit to help you build a joyful homeschool.

Have you ever wished someone would bring you dinner at the end of a hard day? Do you ever long for a note of thanks for the way you serve others in church or at co-op? As we continue our conversation about Joyful Morning Habits, let's look at one more simple step we can take each day to cultivate joy in our hearts and our homeschools.

Hey homeschool mommas! Welcome back the the Rest in the Trench podcast. It's been a little while. Where have I been? The short story: depression. I hit a rough season last fall and fizzled on creating new podcast episodes. Today, I want to share a little more of my story, a few steps I took to come out of that season, and a few anchors from Scripture that helped me through it.

What do you do first in the morning? As we're building joyful morning habits, what we focus on first matters. So today we're talking about focusing on magnifying Jesus first thing in the morning.

Welcome October! It's time for visiting the pumpkin patch, picking apples, crunching leaves, and many other fun, fall homeschool activities. But what do you do when mom just isn't enjoying it. This month, we're talking about some simple morning habits to help you cultivate joy in your heart and your homeschool.

Today holds an exciting episode here on the Rest in the Homeschool Trench podcast: our first guest conversation. I'm thrilled to introduce you to my mentor and friend, Kristy Trent. When I started homeschooling in 2009, Kristy introduced me to three words that can be a lifeline on our hard days of homeschooling. But they are also a filter for our decisions when we consider revising our homeschool...

After a few weeks of school, we start to notice some areas where our homeschool routine needs to change. How well is your routine serving your family this year? Today, we have 5 more questions to ask ourselves when revising our homeschool plans--this time, it's 5 questions about our routines.

One crucial part of your homeschool plan is your curriculum. But how do you know when it's time to change curriculum? Let's think about 5 questions to ask yourself if you're considering changing your homeschool curriculum.

We're a couple of weeks past Labor Day, and most of us are in the full swing of school. How's your homeschool plan working this year? Are you frustrated and thinking something needs to change? Today we're taking time to ask ourselves three important questions as we consider revising our homeschool plans.

How can boredom point to God's faithfulness? That's what we're talking about in today's episode about homeschool memories. 

How can our failures point to God's faithfulness? That's what we're talking about in today's episode about homeschool memories. 

Here we are in the long, lazy days of summer - catching lightning bugs, swimming, eating ice cream - which turns into sticky hands and all the messes of less structured summer days. What can these days show us about God's faithfulness?

How can the story of the Lion King help us see God's faithfulness in our homeschools? Today I'm sharing a favorite memory from my family's homeschool that can help us remember God's faithfulness with our kids sense of purpose.

What are your favorite homeschool memories? During the coming weeks of summer, I'm sharing some memories from my own homeschool with reminders of God's faithfulness all along the way.