I couldn’t fit it all in. I seemed to spend more time looking at the clock than my kids, “Hurry and finish your math you need to get your science done before lunch too!” And all the fun things I wanted to do, didn’t fit in the day. The math games, the geography puzzle, science experiments, interest based projects, that read-a-loud…there wasn’t enough room in the day. And where do I put grammar and spelling and handwriting and reading and non-fiction writing and narrative writing…

I couldn’t figure out how people were doing it all!

Of course the answer was, they weren’t. The answer I kept finding to my problem was “do less”. But I wanted those things in my children’s education. I wanted to do more, not less. I wasn’t homeschooling to do less. I wanted more for my kids. More enjoyment, more time together, more instruction, more knowledge… The only “less” I was looking for was less boredom, less bullying and less time being raised outside of our home.

So, I tipped our schedule over. One subject a day. And it made all the difference. Not only was there room to do more math…there was room for what mattered most: loving each other, loving learning and loving God.