Measured
Oh wow. It has been a very, very long time since I have posted a blog. But, here I am again. I recently wrote a little article for our homeschool co-op and thought I'd share it here as well. Over the last year or so, I’ve become increasingly aware of my insecurities as a homeschooling mom. What’s odd is that I have been homeschooling for about 9 years--but the first several years of homeschooling were spent outside the United States where I was one of the only homeschoolers in our missionary community. Moving to a homeschool-saturated area sparked the temptation to compare myself to other homeschooling moms around me. All it would take was seeing another mom’s post on Facebook or overhearing a conversation about a child’s accomplishments or even a simple assignment and I would be off and running down a dark road of doubt and insecurity about how I had “messed up my kids for life.” The Lord met me in these dark places and shined His light into the insecure, doubt-filled dar...
