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Dwija Borobia

Can Homeschooling Make your Life Easier?

by Dwija Borobia on March 22, 2012 · 14 comments

Now they’re whatever we want them to be, with gardening and the tire swing and reading The Hobbit out loud.

And life is good.

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Dwija Borobia lives with her husband and their four (soon-to-be-five!) kids in rural southwest Michigan in a fixer-upper they bought sight-unseen off the internet. Between homeschooling and corralling chickens, she pretends her time on the internet doesn’t count because she uses the computer standing up. You can read more on her blog house unseen. life unscripted.

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Dwija Borobia lives with her husband and their five kids in rural southwest Michigan in a fixer-upper they bought sight-unseen off the internet. Between homeschooling and corralling chickens, she pretends her time on the internet doesn’t count because she uses the computer standing up. You can read more on her blog house unseen. life unscripted.

Tagged as: homeschooling, motherhood

  • http://www.thislearnedlife.blogspot.com/ Mrs Swanson06

    Sounds good to me. Something I’ve noticed recently: no more sickness. Not 100%, but not one cold or ear infection since they were pulled. Considering the youngest was going in every two to three weeks with an ear infection this is enough of a blessing to keep me from completely throwing in the towel when I get frustrated.

  • http://twitter.com/HouseUnseen Dwija Borobia

     You know, I forgot about that one and I totally agree.  They have definitely not been part of the “strep circle” from the winter, that’s for sure.

  • Michelle Lynch

    This coming fall we begin year 25 of homeschooling (8 or 9 years until our youngest graduates high school).  I cannot imagine what the past 25 years with my husband’s shift work, Navy reserves, traveling for work, etc…would have been like if I had someone else (a school district) dictating my schedule.

  • Marla Morgan

    Hey there, I live in the desert of Southern CA!  Enjoyed reading this, although I must admit I enjoy everything you write (I’m just not a commenter).  We’re homeschoolers too, and I’m loving your recent blog post about curriculum.  I’m getting lots of great ideas from that!  Thanks!

  • http://twitter.com/HouseUnseen Dwija Borobia

     Yay!  I’m so glad that comment thread is helping you out too.  So much great information there.  I see a spreadsheet in my future…. :)

  • http://twitter.com/HouseUnseen Dwija Borobia

     Moms like you are so inspiring to me, Michelle.  Thank you!

  • Colleen

    Sounds wonderful!

  • Karen

    Yep, we’ve been homeschooling for nearly seven years, and we get sick a lot less than other families…unless we go to children’s museums or homeschool group field trips.  Then we are felled.  This year we’ve been hermits because of a new baby, and we got through the winter with no illnesses!

  • http://www.torpidtrifling.blogspot.com/ Katy

    It was your “we’re thinking about homeschooling” post that rang like a bell somewhere inside me, and made me begin to consider it too. My oldest is only 3, so I have a little bit of time to work it out, but I love what you’ve written here. I hate the hurry-rush-fast life. I can’t live that way. The more I read, and think, and look, and listen … the more I think homeschooling will be in our future. Although not goats. Never goats for me! We’re city dwellers, and never a chicken shall cross my path, I hope! But all the rest of it sounds lovely.

  • http://twitter.com/HouseUnseen Dwija Borobia

     Famous last words, Katy.  Famous last words…. ;)

  • schuppepartyoften

    Good article!

  • http://karenedmisten.blogspot.com/ Karen Edmisten

    Love this! Yes, we’re kind of night owly here and we can live a bit more by our own rhythms. My husband teaches in a public school, so we still live with certain aspects of his schedule, but one of the things I love the most about homeschooling is that we aren’t living by the dictates of someone else’s idea of a normal day! :)  

  • olivia demkowicz

    YES! Right now we are part of a lovely homeschool co-op three days a week and even that is just too much. Too much everything…rushing, packing lunches, rushing to the car, “where are your shoes, your hair isn’t brushed, don’t forget your paper, where are your shoes, we’re going to miss chapel, WHERE ARE YOUR SHOES?”  Last week was spring break an it was like a breath of fresh air. so much school work got done. so much cooking got done, so much of everything got done and no one hurried the whole time. This is the life!  I can’t wait until next year. I will miss our community VERY MUCH, but I will not miss the rush.

  • http://people-as-guate.blogspot.com/ Steph

    Thanks for sharing this.. such a happy post!