Hello ladies 

I have a hard time finding something constructive to do and I wonder if I can use some of my time to help you. Digital life makes it easy to share so it is okay that I’m not in your community. My thoughts on how I might be able to help:

I can read, review and critique essays, papers, research, creative writing etc. I can grade for you, if that’s a part of the your learning place.

I can help any student of music study and learn how to read and understand music, listening and theory. I might even be able to help them play their instrument, write a song or prepare for performance. I enjoy music talk with every age and stage and believe that everyone can learn to sing and use their body for rhythm, just by learning to listen. I would be delighted to help.

I’m passionate about the pursuit of the good and the beautiful. Art appreciation and application expands our vision and gives a platform for expression. I want to help your child get inspired and explore the art and creativity that God has put in him. I would encourage and affirm your child’s efforts, and trust him to explore art for the good and the beautiful, through conversation, text or FaceTime, and possibly share their real creations through the post or in-home visits (when/if possible). I would be alongside you, not replace you.

I’m a good listener and can promote discussion and discovery in the learning context. Leading students to good resources, helping to physically locate resources and teaching how to use them is an essential part of every parent’s responsibility. I know how hard it is to do this and I can help. Being able to discuss well, respond well to a challenge and to prove one’s statement/thesis is a higher level skill that’s vital in an informed adult life. I can help.

I’m available to help you learn how to keep your house running. Many homeschool families are comfortable with their learning program or their home-keeping, but not both. I believe that I can help you find a balance that will work for you. Being home many hours of the day, every day, means that your home will show the wear and tear of family life quickly. You will not find a book on home management for the family-at-home lifestyle. No one’s written it yet!  I can help you discover what works for you. I can help you write your own personal, unique My Family At Home management program, and show you how to include everyone in the process. Even the littles can be involved in the running of the home. I can show you how.

I’m a good cook. My skills were practiced and perfected by cooking for 80+ folks of all ages on remote Nootka island with only very rustic equipment, collecting rain water in a gravity-fed system for cooking and cleaning, whilst keeping company at times with cougars, wolves and mice, along with the children and their parents. I have prepared banquet dinners for groups of 120+ with the smallest collection of inexperienced staff and cooked for kids’ camps and adult conferences as the head cook, including cooking for special diets. I also had the busy everyday home life of a homeschool mom with babies, teens and dogs to feed as well as a hard-working husband with specific dietary needs. I’ve even learned how to live with only a wood stove, cold running water and 1 long cord for electricity. Being organized, frugal and efficient with food and teaching one’s family to do the same is a passion of mine. I want to show you that you can be organized and efficient too, and I can help you find your style and stride. I want to help you grow in service and in your ability to love others through your service. Most of our time with others is spent at, or very close, to home.  I want  to show you how important it is to create an environment of love, mutual support and value for everyone who crosses the threshold. Then I will help you do it.

God blessed my husband and me with many children, half of whom we will meet in eternity and half who we were privileged to raise. My parenting began with just a hope and a prayer. That firstborn experience was fraught with anxiety at first but God made Himself near and clear, and kept me healthy in mind and body. Even though I had no training or experience for child raising and lots of negative training to unlearn, I grew and became confident in my parenting. I trusted my Heavenly Father to instruct me through His Word and eventually made it my habit to go to Him first with my needs, concerns and fears. 

I believe that God enabled and equipped me, and placed in me the desire of my heart: to raise up godly men and women. They’re imperfect but perfectly loved by our Heavenly Father! We learned together how to rightly divide the Word of Truth, to love God and serve Him, and to love mankind. My children are adults now, 4 sons and 2 daughters age 22 to 36. They understand the depth of man’s depravity and the lengths to which a person will go to cover up, excuse or rationalize sin, and they know the good news of Jesus Christ our Saviour, the solution that frees us from bondage to it. We learned together how sin hurts us and how it grieves our Father.  We learned to be honest, own our sin, repent, and receive forgiveness. We also learned to forgive others, as Christ has forgiven us, and learned how to offer and receive grace.

I think that this isn’t something that can be taught with a curriculum. Understanding God’s call on our life and living life worthy of the calling to which we were called begins with the desire to know Christ. In our house we call it “the want to”. When you want to know, Jesus shows you: He is the curriculum. We are to know Him, to be like Him. Parents are the vessel that brings the child to Him, over and over again, showing the child who Jesus is and tutoring until the child is grown. When we live the at-home lifestyle we have an abundance of time with our children. Thank Him! The task seems too much sometimes but God is able! Trust Him! Remember His promises! He is the author and the finisher of our faith! 

I’m so glad that I have the Holy Spirit to guide and direct, and that I have His inerrant Word. Counting on the facts of the Gospel and all that we are offered in Christ, we live by faith. I want to help you and your family learn and grow together to develop a righteous response to sin in the world, living by faith, not by fear. I want to help you get on your way with near and clear instruction from The Word. I consider it a great honour to be allowed to offer counsel in this way.

I thank God every day for my children and pray that He will keep them safe and secure in the palm of His hand. I’m confident that I can advise, encourage and counsel you in raising up your children, as God’s workmanship, glorifying Him with their lives. I can help you to find your unique voice and position as a parent, a Shaper of Lives, and facilitate the building of the strong foundation necessary to live boldly for Christ.