by Spencer Mason | Nov 30, 2016 | Fall 2016, GREENHOUSE
30 Nov 2016 It was early summer and our family was already thinking about the upcoming school year. Our youngest was ready for kindergarten, and my wife and I were contemplating how we could swing sending our three children to private school. My wife had recently...
by Spencer Mason | Oct 5, 2016 | Fall 2016, GREENHOUSE
5 Oct 2016 It’s starting again! Yes, indeed it was. It was 9:00 am on Thursday, June 2, 2016. Summer was finally here, and with it, the 2016 NCHE conference. In a mere one and a half hours as we excitedly looked out the front window of our car, we would be checking...
by Spencer Mason | Oct 7, 2015 | Summer 2015, GREENHOUSE
7 Oct 2015 We faced a new season in our homeschool this past year as we decided not to return to the co-op we had participated in for a number of years. Although it was a tough decision, it allowed the children and me to participate in a wonderful group called...
by Spencer Mason | Sep 30, 2015 | Summer 2015, GREENHOUSE
30 Sep 2015 I recently went to a homeschool coffee social with new and seasoned homeschool moms. It was rewarding to go as an encourager. I hadn’t realized that somehow over the last fifteen years, I had gone from a novice homeschool mom to being seasoned....
by Spencer Mason | Sep 23, 2015 | Single Parenting, Summer 2015, GREENHOUSE
23 Sep 2015 Anyone who has been called by God to homeschool will immediately understand the title of this article. Homeschooling can be romanticized in our minds. We have pictures in our head of our sweet children getting along, breezing through a school day, being...