by Leslie Sholly | Jul 19, 2018 | Deep Thoughts, Education, family, Parenting, teenagers
I have a large intimidating binder and a husband who is a lawyer to bring with me to IEP meetings. I send emails to teachers, I have conferences with the principal, I advocate relentlessly even when it makes me uncomfortable. I have become THAT MOM, and I don’t care...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 15, 2018 | Graveyards, homeschooling, Knoxville, Parenting, Vacations
Y’all, it is HOT. And our access to a swimming pool is gone. It is hard to want to leave the air conditioning to have summer adventures, but we managed three days of fun this week. I couldn’t get it together till Wednesday, when we had to leave the house...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 30, 2018 | Catholicism, family, home decor, homeschooling
Remember back at the beginning of the year when I was participating in the Catholic Minimalism Challenge, and making all kinds of progress, and posting impressive updates? Well, along about week three, we got the flu. For the second time. As you might expect, that...
by Leslie Sholly | May 21, 2017 | Catholicism, Education, family, Notre Dame, Parenting, Vacations
Our Notre Dame adventure is about to come to a close. The day this is published, we will be in South Bend for Teddy’s graduation, and I’m sure there will be stories and adventures to share! But before that, let’s go back to last February, to Junior...
by Leslie Sholly | Sep 17, 2015 | Education, family, Parenting, Politics
In this house, we LOVE election season (except sometimes on Facebook!). We had a great time watching the first GOP debate last month (definitely the most entertaining debate I’ve ever seen) and then talking about it afterwards. If you had asked me earlier this...
by Leslie Sholly | Nov 4, 2014 | Catholicism, Education, family
I haven’t written a post on homeschooling in a while, probably because I’m too busy doing it to write about it–or about anything. Last time I homeschooled, John worked in an office and had a full-time staff. This time, the office is the house and...