About this Blog
About Kristie
I am a mother of two and a wife of a very supportive husband. My oldest, Rockman, spent his entire career in public school, and my youngest, Sunshinegirl, has spent her entire career (K-8th) homeschooling. While homeschooling is my “day job”, I also work part time in Information Technology and spend many hours volunteering in various organizations. My passion is for learning, and there is almost nothing I enjoy more than researching good home school curriculum and resources for our use. My favorite place to be is snuggled up next to my daughter on the couch reading great books!
There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of homeschool blogs out there, many of which have wonderful information, links to great homeschool ideas and downloads of resources to make any homeschool better. Two years ago when we made the decision to continue to homeschool Sunshinegirl through high school, I started researching what that entailed, and I was surprised at how little information there was.
There is plenty of high school curriculum, but few sites or blogs on “how did you do it and how did you survive”. How do I plan courses and grant credits? How do I keep grades? How do I pick the best curriculum that will be interesting and rigorous enough for college prep? Oh, and while we are mainline Protestant, we want a secular homeschool.
Am I the only one like me?
I will never claim in this blog to know everything, or even to know anything. If I’ve learned anything after nine years of homeschooling, it is that every child is different, and what works great for one child (or a thousand children) might not be what my daughter needs.
I am homeschooling only one child, which is unique in itself. I also have the perspective of my other child attending public schools for his entire career.
I just want to share my experience, thoughts, decisions, and reasoning, hoping that maybe there is someone out there just like me considering the high school homeschool adventure. Maybe someone can gleam a nugget of wisdom or an idea from our experiences; maybe you can learn from our mistakes (and hopefully successes).
This blog shares the good, the bad, and the ugly of high school homeschooling in our family. Share it with us. She WILL be Top of her class (of One).
Top of Her Class of One 