Author Archives: hillshum

Just got this today from one of my favorite homeschooling mentors, Mary Ann Johnson. She is presenting tomorrow in Bountiful. Come and learn a ton about how to have a better homeschool day! Go to http://treeoflifemothering.ning.com/profiles/blogs/have-your-kids-beg-to-do-school Here’s what I copied … Continue reading →

Here is the link for our discussion today:  http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/731553-headgates-discussion We are starting at 2 PM Mountain Time. We are discussing the articles called “The Headgate” and “Parenting” by Keri Tibbetts. We will end at 4 PM.

Last Tuesday night I went and heard one of my favorite presenters, Mary Ann Johnson at my friend Amy Ihrig’s home. Mary Ann is the Home School Coach. She has a super fun blog here http://home-school-coach.com/. She was so inspiring. … Continue reading →

Saturday January 14 was a great day for the Freedom Bowl, sponsored by http://ayli.org, and http://rootsoffreedom.org.  I get positively giddy about competitions like this. It’s my inner nerd. I just love academic competitions!  I am so thrilled that my kids … Continue reading →

 I hope you will join me on Wed. Jan. 25 for a discussion of the ebook Headgates and the sequel article on parenting. Get the Headgates ebook free at http://headgates.org. It’s an article about how to create a classical education … Continue reading →

I know I’ve posted this picture before but I like it so much I am posting it again, even though it looks like “Sister Wives.” It’s me and my dh with my sister at her baby’s blessing. And she does … Continue reading →

One of the tender mercies in my life lately was that Leslie Householder scheduled another Profitable Author seminar. If you don’t know who Leslie is go to http://prosperyourfamily.com. She did one the very Saturday I held my youth conference last … Continue reading →

Today is a day that makes me remember why I don’t want to live in northern Utah for the rest of my life. Winter can be very bleak here. I have been rejoicing that the past two weeks have been … Continue reading →

The past few weeks I’ve been dealt some bad news all around: friends and family making bad choices, some devastating news about two close family members, and more. It’s enough to make me want to tune out the world and … Continue reading →

Go here to get a shocking view of vaccines from a pro-vaccine immunologist. http://gaetacommunications.com/site/?p=1092. I agree with what he says about what she says (the following is copied and pasted from the link) “Now, the person speaking here is not … Continue reading →