Hannah Homeschool Bestie

If you had just told me this is what my May would look like last July… phew!Homeschooling kindergarten can be so fun!✨🐪❤️ Our days are short and sweet and we take lots of breaks. I love seeing my child’s love of learning bloom and also his sense of competency as he learns new math skills and begins to blend words. To see him drawing pyramids and the different places inside of them not because I’ve drilled and quizzed the info into him but because of the power of living books is something else. It’s truly a wonder-filled time. It’s also usually a little chaotic and loud. But, wonderful nonetheless.🤭🌼🐪🏺

POV: Someone sees a 15 second clip of your house. 😂

“Wow, it’s so clean.”
“She has such a great system.”
“She must clean all the time.”

Meanwhile, the camera pans two feet to the left… 👀

The funny thing is that most homeschool moms I know aren’t trying to keep their homes perfect. And, it would be impossible because we’re constantly living life in them.

Learning in them.
Playing in them.
Cleaning them.
Messing them up again. 😅

Sometimes you catch the tidy corner.

Sometimes you catch real life.

Anyone else have a designated “don’t point the camera over there” zone? 🙋‍♀️

Fun fact: we never had another snow day during my high school years. The next time it snowed in the valley, I was already an adult. ❄️☃️

If my mom hadn’t taken that morning off with me, we would’ve missed our only chance.🥺

The audacity of a homeschool mom and teenager wanting to enjoy a “once in a lifetime” snow day together. 😂

Looking back, I don’t remember what academic work I missed that morning.

I do remember driving around with my mom looking at snow in the desert.

That’s the thing about homeschooling. Sometimes the flexibility isn’t the point of homeschooling… it’s the vehicle for the point.

The point is the relationship.

And years later, those are the memories that stay with you. 🤍

I’m opting out of that. 🤷‍♀️ There are seasons for getting up before the kids and I’m not currently in one. Happily co-sleeping for the foreseeable future.😂💛

a week of whimsical homeschool kindergarten 🪺

we made a volcano erupt 🌋
learned the letter “n” through nests + bird eggs
kept blending words + reading Bob Books 📚
watched baby doves grow into fledglings and leave the nest

played outside in water, mud, and sunshine

and then…
we harvested our very first radishes 🥹
the ones he planted and cared for all by himself

muddy hands, real learning, slow childhood 🤍
this is what kindergarten looks like here

Yep 😂😂😂

Butterflies, kindergarten lessons, and one last stretch of beautiful desert weather before summer arrives 🌵🦋

This morning we knocked out schoolwork quickly, listened to Story of the World for the first time (and somehow made it through 11 chapters 😂), and spent time outside watching roadrunners doing their mating dance through the wildflowers.

One thing I’ve learned living in the desert with little kids is to really soak in these spring mornings while we have them. Summers here are HOT, so instead of taking a big summer break from homeschool, we’ve been taking little days off here and there throughout the spring to enjoy the beautiful weather and slower mornings outside.

Honestly, days like this make homeschooling feel really life giving in this season of motherhood. 🤍

I want my children’s childhood to feel like storybooks, salt air, treasure maps, and wonder. 🌊

These seaside adventure books have been so loved in our home lately.