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Traveling is an excellent way to learn and explore far and wide.  It was always one of my favorite things about homeschooling, and we made sure to take advantage of it.  Because of that, I have some tips to share about how to homeschool while traveling. In this episode, How to Homeschool While Traveling, I’m sharing tips […] The post Tips for How to Homeschool While Traveling {Podcast Episode #32} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Whether you work online or just find that you spend a lot of time online, you might find that your productivity is suffering.  There are so many things about working online and about being a blogger that can work to make you get off task and put you behind on your schedule, as well as […] The post How to Be a More Productive Blogger {Podcast Episode #31} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Before we started homeschooling, I had these grandiose visions for what I thought our homeschool would look like. Despite the fact that I know my children and the kinds of things they enjoy and don’t enjoy, I still thought that our days would be filled with poetry and art and wonder. That just didn’t happen, […] The post Learning to Accept Your Homeschool for What It Is appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Homeschooling is such a rewarding lifestyle choice, but do you know what? Homeschooling can also be a really difficult lifestyle choice. It can be easy to get discouraged while you’re homeschooling. In this week’s podcast, I’m sharing steps that you can take to help yourself and your homeschool when you’re starting to feel discouraged as […] The post Steps to Take When You’re Feeling Discouraged as a Homeschooling Parent appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Decision making can be hard, especially when you’re faced with some difficult options from which to choose. While one of the pieces of conventional wisdom is to make a pros and cons list to help you decide, I have a variation on that concept that you just might find useful the next time you’re faced […] The post How to Make Difficult Decisions: A Method for Making Choices {Podcast} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

When you’re selling your home, house staging can be an important step to help potential buyers become more interested in your house as well as to help them imagine what their life might look like in your house.  While you could spend a fortune in house staging, if you’re on a budget, there are some […] The post How to Stage Your Home on a Budget {Podcast Episode 27} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

I’ve been pretty vocal in the past about my own lack of domestic skills when I moved out of my parents house at the age of nineteen as a brand new bride.  You’d think those deficits would have made me more cognizant that I needed to work on those kinds of things with my kids, […] The post How to Work on Teaching Children about Meal Planning and Preparation {Podcast} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Parenting is not an easy gig.  The rewards are amazing, but it’s just not easy.  When you throw in homeschooling, it can be even easier to start to feel a little weary along the way.  Homeschooling can be an enormous amount of work, but even more so – it can be mentally taxing.  That’s not […] The post Encouragement for the Weary Homeschool Parent {Episode 25} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Follow my blog with Bloglovin No matter how many things you can cut out of your budget, food is one of those things that you’ll always have to spend money on.  In fact, your food budget may be one of the larger line items in your budget.  There are ways, however, to start saving some […] The post How to Save Money at the Grocery Store {Podcast 23} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

If you’re used to using a more traditional approach to homeschooling, such as one that looks more like a public school model, you may struggle with adding some child-led aspects to your child’s education.  This is something that I have struggled with, but it’s also one area that I’ve found some things that have worked for […] The post How to Add Child-Led Options to a Traditional Homeschool Approach (Episode 22) appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Grocery shopping isn’t a particularly fun task, especially when it includes compiling lists, meal planning, and coupon clipping. What can make it even more of an experience is to have three small children along for the ride. Although it can be extra stressful, in retrospect, it may make for a funny story. In this week’s […] The post The Battle in Aisle Four: A Tale of Grocery Shopping (Episode 21) appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Sometimes, it seems like there is just such enormous pressure to be a super mom.  You should be a cheerful and creative mother, a loving and, um, loving wife, an excellent and efficient keeper of your home, and be able to do all of the awesome projects you see on Pinterest.  It’s easy to get overwhelmed […] The post 10 Reasons I Know I’m Absolutely Not a Super Mom (Podcast #20) appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Homeschooling can be taxing even during the best times of the year.  But, throw in cold and snowy weather that sometimes keeps you trapped inside the house, and you may just hit the winter doldrums of homeschooling. It’s no fun, but take heart and know that you’re not the only homeschooler who has dealt with […] The post How to Beat Winter Homeschooling Doldrums {Podcast #19} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

If you struggle in the kitchen, it can be hard to even know where to start when you’re trying to learn how to be a better cook and baker.  I have some suggestions for what you should and shouldn’t do as you work toward more kitchen proficiency in this week’s six minute episode of the […] The post How to Become a Better Cook Through Practice {Podcast Episode 18} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Things are much different for my kids growing up than they were when I was growing up. If you’re a child of the 70’s, 80’s, or 90’s, and are a parent now, you might recognize some of these things that were commonplace in your childhood that might make your children look quizzically in your direction. […] The post Things My Kids Just Don’t Understand about my Childhood {Podcast Episode 17} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Motherhood is not an easy gig. Sure, it’s rewarding, but it can be hard sometimes. When you throw in homeschooling on top of that, it can become even more difficult and exhausting. If you’re a newer homeschooler, or just need some encouragement in your journey, take heart and listen to these words of encouragement for […] The post Advice and Encouragement for New Homeschoolers {Podcast Episode 16} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

Keeping the house clean can be challenging with so many other things keeping us busy every day. There is a way to help with this struggle though, and it’s putting a cleaning schedule in place. While ready-made systems and schedules are fine, I have suggestions for making a cleaning schedule you can actually follow: one […] The post How to Make a Cleaning Schedule that Works {Podcast Episode 15} appeared first on Real Life at Home.

In this episode, I share two stories of funny or intriguing things that I have overheard while eating or working at Panera. First, you’ll find out about one college student’s theory on how to find the perfect mate, which ends up being something kind of bizarre, but funny and not at all expected. This is […] The post As Overheard at Lunch: Funny Stories Told Loudly at Panera (Podcast Ep. 014) appeared first on Real Life at Home.

It can be easy to get so set in particular ideals for any given situation, and education is no different.  When my kids were very young, I had some pretty strong opinions about education.  They got turned upside down when we felt called to start homeschooling. Six years later, they got confused again when I […] The post 013: From Public School to Homeschool to a Mix: Changing How We View Our Educational Ideals appeared first on Real Life at Home.

I don’t know if you have this problem at your house, but my kitchen is one of the first places to get messy and disorganized.  It’s not even just from meal prep, but also from stuff on the kitchen counter or because I am not using my space efficiently.  If you have some of the […] The post 012: How to Have a Cleaner, More Organized Kitchen {Podcast} appeared first on Real Life at Home.