By Shari McMinn Ghoulish masks. Headstones. Risque costumes. Scary Clowns. Witches and warlocks. Do you agree that this is the sight in every single store you enter during October, even when just to buy groceries or gas? When two of our adopted...
Baseline Start for a Home Run Year
By Shari McMinn Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into...
Back-to-School: Resetting Routines
By Shari McMinn Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into...
Lazy Days of Summer Hot Dates
By Shari McMinn Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth.(Proverbs 5:18 ESV) Remaining happily married is a challenge for most couples. It is even more difficult when you are raising unique learners, but is crucial to...
Summer Struggles and Solutions
By Shari McMinn And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years (Genesis 1:14 ESV). I love how God created the signs and seasons,...
Graduating to What?
By Shari McMinn Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he (Proverbs 29:18 KJV). Three decades ago when my late husband, Cary, and I began homeschooling our then five children, we discussed what outcomes...
Experiential Learning
by Shari McMinn You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. (Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV) As homeschool parents, we should...
Destressing Your Homeschool
By Shari McMinn Destressing Your Homeschool Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving...





