make joy normal: cozy homeschooling
In the context of promoting joy, fun and an environment of love, Bonnie welcomes you! Bonnie is a homeschool mom of seven kids, 32 years in - writer, speaker and cheerleader. Meet her cohosts who bring your questions and theirs to the table: Elizabeth, mom of six, in the thick of glorious family life, and Christina, just starting the homeschool journey with three littles. Join us for some honest discussion about how to make home education cozy. Just like you imagined.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 291
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
homemaking, path to holiness
You will love love love Allison. Oh my gosh, this interview was just an incredible pleasure and kind of mind shifting. Listen while Allison and I take turns having epiph…
children's author, Sylvia Dorham
Today I interview Sylvia Dorham, children's author. The beginning of the interview had a glitch so we miss some of Sylvia's biographical information!
Sylvia is a Catholi…
home management: an interview with Kelly
Kelly joins us today to talk home management skills. She shares valuable insights on keeping a home, building routines and homeschool planning. We talk about creating a rh…
listener questions - welcome Bianca!
In this episode, dedicated and darling listener, Bianca, brings her questions (and her baby boy!) to the show. We focus on our kid's faith. When they're little, they jus…
creating homes: record keeping and home education, part two, high school
To wrap up this little series on creating homes, I'll add part two for record keeping. This includes some course planning and working with our high schoolers strengths an…
creating homes: cultivating ourselves
Today I interview Elissa Frankham, who has gone through the Woman School program, and recently begun her own mentorship. She shares with us her journey with honesty and e…
creating homes: planning out the year
Elizabeth and I talk about ways to think about plotting out our homeschool year. We cover organization, lesson planning, the philosophy of planning and how curricula can …
creating homes: recording keeping and home education, part one
Well, how does this play into creating the kinds of homes we want to raise our families in? In my opinion - HUGE. Chaos undermines kindness. Order is a form of beauty, …
creating homes: pursuing health and holiness in the domestic church: an interview with Mariette, the natural Catholic mom
Welcome, Mariette! And apologies on my end for the background noise; I had inadvertently left a secondary mic on, picking up my noise...thank you for your patience with m…
creating homes: well ordered lives
Christina and I continue in this part two of the little series "creating homes". We talk about order and its part in our sanity and spiritual life. The seasons of mother…
creating homes: talking marriage with Monica and Renzo from Two Become Family
I am starting a little series for the next few weeks on creating the homes we desire for our family life. The idea came from this article in the Catechism of the Catholic…
road tripping
In this episode, Elizabeth and I talk about car travel, and summer and road trips approach. We share some of our little life hacks for making the car trip a little better…
when to push, when not to push
Elizabeth brings some great questions today. When do you force a child to push through something difficult. The importance of math facts. Addressing grade appropriate m…
why order matters
This short talk was previously given at a conference, I know I'm on this rant all the time, but I think it needs to be shared, so once again, a balance of order is so impo…
my friend and mentor, Katherine the Awesome
One of the people who lifted me up and encouraged me to look at what God has given me more closely, Katherine is one of my dearest friends. We talk about being awesome, a…
Krista from Tan: homeschooling with the whole family in mind
Tan has developed a homeschool support system worth taking a look at. Krista from Tan books is so full of enthusiasm for her work supporting parents and families with wha…
"Adventure is the vehicle, connection is the destination." author Greta Eskridge
Greta is a lovely human being. Second generation homeschool mom with a husband, four kids and a great attitude. Adventure, big or small, is a place where we can connect…
An interview with Vivian Dudro, editor Ignatius Press: homeschooling, literature and getting to heaven
Vivian is so lovely. Her love of family, literature and God (not in that order) filters out so tangibly to our listeners. Ignatius has been a remarkable part of our fami…
favourite topic: favourite books
Elizabeth and I revel in our favourite books once again, story books, novels, parenting, adult spiritual growth, historical fiction. So much fun.
1:43 - What is your al…
my conversion
TRIGGER WARNING. See below. Dear friends...this is pretty raw. Christina brings a listeners question to the show ~ tell us about your conversion. It could have been ra…