If you have followed me over from My (re)Viewpoint, thank you. If you're new to my meandering mind, welcome. I have not written a blog post since November, 2018. I very much needed the break. I began blogging because I became a reviewer for The Old Schoolhouse Homeschool Review Crew, an experience for which I am so very grateful. Not only did I receive untold amounts of curriculum free in exchange for a review, but I also made some online friends and got to homeschool my kids in a way that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.
However. I never enjoyed the requirement to post to my blog once a week about non-review material. I write when I feel I have something to say. I am not called to be one of those superblogging homeschool moms (who I really do admire). Further, my children are all in high school or college now. I can't share as much of their lives as I did when they were little. Also, while I still homeschool three of them, Nicholas (16 - junior) takes most of his classes at a community college and the twins (14) will be following him within the year. My life is changing. I have homeschooled for 12+ years, but within four years, I won't have any children left at home. I have outgrown my previous blog. Having said that, I still feel like I have things to say.
For more than ten years I worked for the same company creating educational materials for teachers. That job ended early this year and I have been trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up ever since. I know I want to continue creating teaching materials, but on my terms and for homeschoolers, primarily. I want to create the kinds of resources that I always wanted to have. Now that school has started again, I am going to throw myself into that endeavor.
I am also very aware that I am changing as a person. I can feel myself aging, which is strange. I don't mean physically, necessarily, but in other ways. I am acutely aware that I am on the second half of my life. I have so much work to do on myself. I have been focusing on my children so much for the past 18 years, but, for better or worse, they are formed. I have to make sure my own house is in order. For so many reasons, it was time for my blog to have a new home. Thank you for joining me on the journey.
