Danielle Youngdale

What deserves a place on the family calendar, and what doesn’t? This hasn’t been a one-time question in our household. Every so often, I notice the calendar looking busy and the days feeling uncomfortably full, and I know it’s time to hone in again on our priorities and our limitations. When that happens, I come back to a few questions. Are we protecting enough margin to actually enjoy one another? Are the things filling our calendar helping us become the kind of people we hope to be? Are we...

Our Dearest Homeschool Mom, It’s almost the end, we’ve almost made it. There’s a particular kind of tired that only an end-of-the-year-homeschool-mom knows. It’s not the tired of a hard day, it’s the tired of a whole year. A whole year of being the teacher, the scheduler, the encourager, the driver, the lunch lady and the noon duty. It’s a full-body, soul-deep tired that deserves to be honored, not rushed past. So before you open that new curriculum catalog, before you sketch out next...

Hello Fellow Homeschooling Mamas, Happy Spring! For those of us currently homeschooling, we’ve almost made it another whole year! That is no small feat! I think I look forward to summer more than my kiddos. As a homeschooling mom, I’m so thankful for the amount of time I get to be with my kids during the school year in learning, deep connection, and conversations around the homeschool table AKA our dining room table; but, I also really love to throw school out the window and just have fun in...