Ligia, Author at Journal of a Busy Mom

High School Webinar

April 11, 2014 By Ligia

I’ve been busy getting ready for High School-ugh. It’s a LOT of work. My daughter said she is not homeschooling her children, it is too much work. She’s right! I hope she changes her mind, though.

Anyways, I found out that there is a webinar coming up by Lee Binz. the Homeschool Scholar.

I got this email from Hearts At Home Store

Here is what Lee says:

Dear Homeschool Parent,

Hi, my name is Lee Binz, The HomeScholar. Have you noticed how it is becoming more and more “socially acceptable” to homeschool your younger children? A few years ago, it was not uncommon for parents to feel like sociopaths for denying their children the “academic and social advantages of a public education” (my favorite phrase from the past).

Social acceptance has been slower coming for parents who choose to homeschool through high school. Change is happening, but there is still a lot of hostility out there from public school parents, special interests and government agencies who are dead set against homeschool parents who choose this path.

My goal is to help parents who are committed to giving their teens the best possible high school education and providing them their best shot at college. I want to take away any fear and replace it with the knowledge you need to ensure homeschool high school success.

I want to empower and educate you to be the best high school teacher, parent and guidance counselor possible. That is why I am so excited to be hosting a FREE one-hour educational webinar on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, exclusively for followers of Hearts at Home Store.

“A Homeschool Parent’s Guide to High School Grades, Credits and Transcripts” will cover all the essentials you need to know to calculate credits, determine grades and create transcripts. In this webinar you will learn:

5 sure-fire ways to determine high school credit
How to let go of “grade anxiety” in your homeschool
The one factor that will give you ABSOLUTE FREEDOM in your high school
How you, as the homeschool parent, can help the colleges with their “nightmare scenario”…and how helping them will also help you!
5 killer advantages of a properly-crafted homeschool transcript
3 transcript pitfalls that can cripple your child’s chances for college admission and scholarships.

Spots for this webinar are filling fast, so register today. We have something really special planned for the people who attend this presentation live, so make sure you sign up today to reserve your spot!!

Here are the details:

Title: “A Homeschool Parent’s Guide to High School Grades, Credits and Transcripts”

Date:               Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Time:              5 pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/327168696

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing instructions to help you join the Webinar. To say “thank you” for registering, you will receive a free monthly email newsletter that will help you homeschool through high school graduation.

Hopefully this helps someone!

Ligia

We Hope….We Wait

April 8, 2014 By Ligia

“But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it” Romans 8:25

“Rome wasn’t built in a day”.

“Good things take time and great things take even longer”

we hope…..we wait

I read a devotional today by Chuck Swindoll in this book The Finishing Touch. This devotional reading really made me think about homeschooling. We hope…we wait…

I am anxious about what the end product will be, the unseen if you will. As I am getting ready to “plan out” our high school years I am overwhelmed with the unknown of how it will turn out. I can go by the advice of hundreds who have gone before me who say “It will be fine”. But deep, deep inside I still have that fear of failing.

But today’s verse really reminded me that we are not only to hope…and wait we also persevere. And, not to mention, that we are hoping and waiting on God. He will get me through this; he will help me persevere through my “unseens”. He has always been there for me. I have been able to look back and see how he has carried me through. Now, I am facing new “unseens”:

High school- oh that’s a big one. I am taking on what some institutions are not able to get right.

Dyslexia- Almost just as big, if not bigger because I will eventually have to deal with dyslexia AND homeschooling.

Those are my two biggies right now. Not to mention diabetes, celiac disease and a host of other things that I can’t control or see what lies ahead for my children.

But I love that verse. “We hope…we wait”

The second part of this devotion reminded me that I am building ROME. I am taking on a huge task and I have to remind myself that it was not built in a day. I may not see “progress” or even “growth” in a day, a week, a month…but I am building ROME. For my son, I started in 1st grade. For my daughter, I started in 4th grade. I am still building!

And like Rome, I am still being built! I am still a work in progress. I need to continue to grow and build so I can become my spiritual ROME.

And then finally, good things take time and great things take even longer.

My children are great things…I am not going to short change them. I am going to pour everything I have into them. I am going to speak God’s work to them, over them, in them, all over them. I know that I can’t decide their fate, but I am going to pour into them all I’ve got so that God use that sacrifice and make beautiful things out of them. Like Rome.

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Diabetes Find: All-in-One Bag

April 4, 2014 By Ligia

My daughter and I went to the Bay Area Diabetes Summit last week and I found this really great bag.

I really like to to carry all the essentials in my own bag. She is getting old enough to carry her own, but there is always that day when she doesn’t. I get mad at her, which I shouldn’t. So I just need to carry a back up. The company is a working on possibly making it slightly bigger for the Glucagon and also making a mesh on the outside so it can carry a Frio, also something I bought there.