I am in disbelief that I have been homeschooling for nine years. I still feel like the new kid on the block, but I guess that isn't necessarily true anymore.  However, like parenting, homeschooling is a plate of shifting sands - once you think you figure things out, things change! Kids change, life circumstances change, and curriculums that worked for one, don't work for another.    Also, as the years pass, I let go a little more of "what school  should  look like" in exchange for "what school  can  look like." This was the first year of homeschooling that we did not move and/or I did not have a baby.  Throw in two months of quarantine thanks to COVID 19 and we have had a pretty calm year!  Here’s a roundup of what we used this past year and how it worked for us: Morning Time              We start our morning together with a few group activities, wrangling people to ...