I feel honored and blessed to help parents create beautiful childhoods, academic success, and priceless memories. I hope you'll bring me into your journey.

xo
- RACHEL -

In the process of learning to articulate our approach, I developed a system that works for every family regardless of their reasons for homeschooling, their parenting style, their children's personalities, their location or schedule, or their budget.
It's a tried-and-true formula that has brought smiles, peace, and success.

Over the years, I've mentored many families. People around us saw happy, confident, responsible children and wanted to know more. Strangers heard about what we were doing and asked for help. Other parents recognized the quality education our children were experiencing.

Young mamas wanting to start but feeling overwhelmed with the options and the responsibility.

Parents hoping to create the best academic environment.

Children struggling to get their emotional, spiritual, and social needs met and looking for a change.

Families excited to build lasting, beautiful relationships.

It's a blessing to help other families succeed.

Mentor + Coach

 Unlike "traditional" schools, homeschools are flexible and customizable. And there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all homeschooling. Needs change each school year, family schedules differ as children grow, and each child has their own learning style and interests. This is as true for our family as it is for yours.

I've worked with a high schooler while supervising a preschooler. I've taught an elementary student while nursing a baby. 

We've used homeschool, public school, private school, and hybrid situations. We've done in-person, independent study, and virtual learning. We've used preschool, elementary, middle school, high school, and university level curriculum. We've used workbooks, living books, videos, online courses, workshops, tutoring, private lessons, and group learning. We've had semesters that were primarily at home, and we've had semesters that were packed with travel. (The local dairy farm was a fantastic field trip, and studying the Renaissance in Florence, Italy was amazing, too!)

We've had average days, challenging days, and exciting days. We've had days when we wanted to learn and days when we couldn't get enough. We've had days when patience was thin and days when everything was smooth sailing. We've had days when forgiveness was the name of the game and days when charity and kindness ruled. Through it all, we've made lasting happy memories and built beautiful bonds that wouldn't have been made otherwise.

Every year is a new experience.

Our Journey

That was more than fifteen years ago. Years of mental focus and effort, tens of thousands of hours of teaching, thousands of hours of studying and researching, innumerable weeks of planning lessons, creating materials, arranging enrichment activities, and selecting curriculum for him and his siblings.⁣
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It was the backdrop to creating so many memories that we treasure, family bonds that will last forever, and shared experiences that put meaning to our days.⁣
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Is it hard? Some days, it absolutely has been.⁣
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Is it worth it? Undeniably, indisputably, incontestably, wholeheartedly YES!⁣
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If you’re homeschooling then I'm sure you agree.
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If you’re not then take it from me: You’ll always cherish the sacred moments you’ll find in homeschooling. It will be one of the best decisions you’ll ever make as a mom.

He was three. We had enrolled him in a wonderful school. There were teachers who were committed. There were learning materials that were beautifully prepared. There was room to roam and explore. I had such high hopes. It was Montessori, after all.⁣
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Our curious boy with an insatiable appetite for knowledge wanted to learn to read. He wanted to be able to pick up a book and know what it said. He wanted to be independent. He wanted to LEARN. And the teachers said no, he was too young, and they weren’t willing to try.⁣
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What is a mom to do in a situation like that? Well, this mama very quickly moved from confusion to astonishment to utter disbelief. And then I got busy. VERY busy.⁣
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In just a short matter of days, I went from being convinced I’d never homeschool — I couldn’t POSSIBLY homeschool — to eagerly and voraciously researching so I could. If I was going to do it, I wanted to do it really well. Beautifully. Peacefully. And really effectively.⁣⁣

I remember it like it was yesterday.⁣

How It All Started