Real Life at Home Podcast: Real Life Homeschooling | Practical Living | Domestically Challenged Motherhood

Traveling is an excellent way to learn and explore far and wide.  It was always one of my favorite things about homeschooling, and we made sure to take advantage of it.  Because of that, I have some tips to share about how to homeschool while traveling. In this episode, How to Homeschool While Traveling, I’m sharing tips […]

Whether you work online or just find that you spend a lot of time online, you might find that your productivity is suffering.  There are so many things about working online and about being a blogger that can work to make you get off task and put you behind on your schedule, as well as […]

Before we started homeschooling, I had these grandiose visions for what I thought our homeschool would look like. Despite the fact that I know my children and the kinds of things they enjoy and don’t enjoy, I still thought that our days would be filled with poetry and art and wonder. That just didn’t happen, […]

Homeschooling is such a rewarding lifestyle choice, but do you know what? Homeschooling can also be a really difficult lifestyle choice. It can be easy to get discouraged while you’re homeschooling. In this week’s podcast, I’m sharing steps that you can take to help yourself and your homeschool when you’re starting to feel discouraged as […]

Decision making can be hard, especially when you’re faced with some difficult options from which to choose. While one of the pieces of conventional wisdom is to make a pros and cons list to help you decide, I have a variation on that concept that you just might find useful the next time you’re faced […]

When you’re selling your home, house staging can be an important step to help potential buyers become more interested in your house as well as to help them imagine what their life might look like in your house.  While you could spend a fortune in house staging, if you’re on a budget, there are some […]

I’ve been pretty vocal in the past about my own lack of domestic skills when I moved out of my parents house at the age of nineteen as a brand new bride.  You’d think those deficits would have made me more cognizant that I needed to work on those kinds of things with my kids, […]

Parenting is not an easy gig.  The rewards are amazing, but it’s just not easy.  When you throw in homeschooling, it can be even easier to start to feel a little weary along the way.  Homeschooling can be an enormous amount of work, but even more so – it can be mentally taxing.  That’s not […]

Follow my blog with Bloglovin No matter how many things you can cut out of your budget, food is one of those things that you’ll always have to spend money on.  In fact, your food budget may be one of the larger line items in your budget.  There are ways, however, to start saving some […]

If you’re used to using a more traditional approach to homeschooling, such as one that looks more like a public school model, you may struggle with adding some child-led aspects to your child’s education.  This is something that I have struggled with, but it’s also one area that I’ve found some things that have worked for […]

Grocery shopping isn’t a particularly fun task, especially when it includes compiling lists, meal planning, and coupon clipping. What can make it even more of an experience is to have three small children along for the ride. Although it can be extra stressful, in retrospect, it may make for a funny story. In this week’s […]

Sometimes, it seems like there is just such enormous pressure to be a super mom.  You should be a cheerful and creative mother, a loving and, um, loving wife, an excellent and efficient keeper of your home, and be able to do all of the awesome projects you see on Pinterest.  It’s easy to get overwhelmed […]

Homeschooling can be taxing even during the best times of the year.  But, throw in cold and snowy weather that sometimes keeps you trapped inside the house, and you may just hit the winter doldrums of homeschooling. It’s no fun, but take heart and know that you’re not the only homeschooler who has dealt with […]

If you struggle in the kitchen, it can be hard to even know where to start when you’re trying to learn how to be a better cook and baker.  I have some suggestions for what you should and shouldn’t do as you work toward more kitchen proficiency in this week’s six minute episode of the […]

Things are much different for my kids growing up than they were when I was growing up. If you’re a child of the 70’s, 80’s, or 90’s, and are a parent now, you might recognize some of these things that were commonplace in your childhood that might make your children look quizzically in your direction. […]