My name is Kathy Larrivee, and I am the Imperfect Homeschooler. I’m so glad you found your way to my website. If you are a homeschooler, or thinking about homeschooling, and you are struggling in any way, you’ve come to the right place! I’ve been homeschooling since 2004 and have made A LOT of mistakes along the way. I would love to help you and encourage you on your homeschool journey. I have blog posts, and I also teach math…
On Christmas Eve, I was inundated with Facebook posts by friends showing their families sitting around tables, playing board games, putting puzzles together, and smiling at the camera with hot chocolate mustaches. Why didn’t I post any pictures like that? Well, my family had different ideas of what the idyllic Christmas Eve would look like. So, what was my family doing? You see, my husband works at a small local liberal arts college, and all of the students were gone…
I’ll just say it – the Advent Wreath has always bothered me. It’s not symmetric. I like things to be even and organized (not that you’d know it by looking at my house), and the Advent Wreath has three purple candles and one pink one. That’s always bothered me. Why couldn’t it have two of each color? Or why couldn’t it have them all be the same color? As I’ve gotten older and learned more about the theology behind it,…
Welp, it’s December. Normally by now I would be in full swing, with the kids being close to halfway through their school year. This year, not so much. I still feel like I haven’t really started yet. Yes, I’m teaching a lot of classes, and those kids are all doing fine and are all right on track for the school year, but my own kids are, um, not. Behind is a good word for my kids, but it might not…
Well, here we are, two weeks into the school year and we’ve barely started. Our darling little doggie had puppies. Seven to be exact. Seven!!!! Way more puppies than I thought she would possibly have. Our yorkie-poo is only 8.5 pounds, and in her last litter she only had two puppies. This time we bred her to a toy poodle, and I was hoping for maybe 3 or 4 puppies. It seems that this school year is just going to…
Welp, it’s that time again. Time for another school year. I watch some of the social media posts of my friends who send their kids to school, and their posts are all about how happy they are to finally be getting back on a schedule, nice to have the kids out of the house so they can impart some order, etc. Hmph. Having always homeschooled, I’ve never experienced this phenomena of having a time when I have a stretch of…