![]() Happy feast of Our Lady of the Rosary! □ □ ⛵️□ □ Formerly known as the feast of Our Lady of Victory, this day commemorates the anniversary of the decisive victory of the combined fleet of the Holy League of 1571 over the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Lepanto. God can help us and our children with our homeschooling lives. You may not accomplish everything that you would like to do, but He will help you to accomplish everything you need to do. He will multiply the time you gave to him in prayer. In addition to helping with the actual process of homeschooling, prayer also helps with your time management. Any time you can turn your thoughts to God and ask for His help will help you and your children and your homeschool. Instead, spend some time in prayer (if you are using your phone to pray, please feel free to use it!). When you have a few moments, resist the urge to pick up your phone. If that is your season of life, I encourage you to do what you can to spend what time you can in prayer. I do remember well, though, the sleep-deprived days of long nights and children who got up early when spending an hour in the prayer was an impossibility. It means getting up earlier than I might like, but I value that time in the early morning to give all my cares and concerns to God and to rest in Him. Now that my children are older, it is possible for me to do that. Edith Stein advises spending an hour in prayer in the morning. If I have turned my homeschool day over to God, I can feel His strength helping me even on the hard days. Days when I don’t have the opportunity to start the day in prayer inevitably end up a train wreck. I pray that they learn what they should, that we take part in the activities we should, and that they go to school if and when they should. I pray every day for my children and for our homeschool. I have cried many tears of frustration and fear during my homeschooling journey. I know in the back of my mind, there is always the voice saying, “What if you mess up? What if you are ruining your children? What if you fail?” Even with two children who have graduated from homeschooling, that voice is still there. That is an added weight on top of the normal pressures of parenting. When we homeschool, we take on the majority of the burden of educating our children. I am my children’s caretaker, trying to help them discover what God wants of them while traveling on my own path of discovery, trying to discern and be who God wants me to be. He knows what they need to learn and experience in order to be the people he made them to be. He knows their strengths and weaknesses and the plans he has for them. God is the one who made my children and knows them more intimately than I ever will. I can’t imagine homeschooling or parenting without God’s help. But sometimes that support and encouragement means acknowledging that this may be a difficult road you are traveling on. I am forever thankful for the gift of homeschooling and am happy to offer homeschool encouragement and support to others. For my family of square pegs, it has been a much better fit than a traditional classroom where they would have struggled immensely to squeeze into those round holes. I do love our homeschool life, at least on some days. Yes, I see all the wonderful images of homeschool life out there in social media and homeschooling books and magazines and they do tell part of the story. Edith Stein and immediately thought of the importance of prayer in our homeschooling (and parenting) lives. I recently came across this quote from St. Tackle the day’s work that he charges you with and he will give you the power to accomplish it. The first hour of your morning belongs to God. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Ohio Dominican College and a Master’s degree in Pastoral Ministry from Saint Mary University of Minnesota.Let go of your plans. Katie taught 2nd grade in the Catholic schools for six years and also worked in parish ministry. Katie’s been homeschooling her boys since preschool and she is currently the coordinator for Opus Domini Catholic Homeschool Support Group of Central Ohio. The Ryzengas live in Gahanna and attend Saint Matthew Parish. Katie Ryzenga is wife to Jon and mom to Ray (10) and Adam (9). I look forward to sharing the CSH experience with you I have just completed my fourth year of homeschooling. I am Jen Chenault and I’m very excited to be a part of CSH! I am wife to Chris and mom to 4 children Ryan, Libby, Noah, and Bella. Holly Vail I am a wife to my wonderful Husband Patrick and mother to 5 fabulous children claire, Lyza, Nora, Patrick and Rourke Lancaster, OH Chapter – Catholic Schoolhouse
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