I love the new year
for the feeling of freshness it brings.
For me it is a chance to pick up the house after the holidays and dive
back into the busy-ness of everyday life.
I have spent some time the last couple of weeks thinking about the PHEA
Digest and the blog and where things are headed this year. Starting this month, I plan to send out the
email Digest on the first Monday of each month.
Each Digest will include a list of posts that will be coming up on the
blog each of the following Mondays. This
year the blog will be more active with information on various aspects of
homeschooling, interviews with members of the homeschooling community and
occasionally a “from the trenches” view of my homeschool.
In thinking about
all that I would like to post on the blog this year, I realized that in the
year and a half since I have been writing the blog, I have never given myself a
proper introduction. And so…
How do you do? I am Deborah, mother of a third grader and a
kindergartener. I have been a homeschool
mom for the past three and a half years.
But my involvement in the homeschool world goes back much farther than
that. My mom is the PHEA administrator,
so I pretty much grew up in the PHEA office.
From registration to transcripts, phone calls to emails I have filled
pretty much every role at some point. I
was in charge of the old paper Digest for several years, so coming back to the
digital version has been a bit like coming home. While my home duties, homeschooling, helping
my husband with his business and such have made it necessary for me to hand off
much of my work at the PHEA office, I am glad to be able to continue out with
the Digest and the blog.
I think it was
pretty much a given that my husband and I would homeschool our children. Both my husband and I are homeschool
graduates, and from the start we agreed that we wanted to be the primary
influence in our kids’ education and in their lives. And while I went into homeschooling with a
lot of knowledge as far as the laws and requirements go and a lot of theories
about how to homeschool, actually sitting down and teaching my kids from day to
day has been a learning experience for me too. I have a lot of support from both my mom and
my mother-in-law. Often when I mention
to them a particular thing I am struggling with their first comment is, “I
remember those days…” followed by, “have you tried…”. It is nice to know that I am not the only one
plunking down at the table and working through twelve years of education one
day at a time. It is my hope that in my “from
the trenches posts, I can pass on to you a little of that feeling that you are
not alone along with some great advice from my moms.
If there is any
aspect of homeschooling you feel that you could use a little more information
on, please let me know. I am always
looking for ideas for blog posts. My
email is pheadigest@gmail.com.
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