I needed a planner that would adapt to the unique needs of homeschooling.Įnter the planner that was inspired by my book, Homeschool Bravely and it's scheduling companion, The Quick-Start Guide to Brave Homeschool Schedules: The Brave Homeschool Planner I needed a planner that would fit my life, not one that forced its way in. I needed a planner that would give me the bravery to chart a unique course for me and mine. So, as with most of life, necessity became the mother of invention. When I went looking around for a planner that could fit the bill-one that combined the appeal of my first planner and the simplicity of the second, I came away empty-handed. It became glaringly obvious that it was time to break up with my underwhelming planners and forge a new relationship. It seemed I had two choices: flashy and overwhelming or prudent and blah. Please see my disclosure policy for full details.) It did the job, mind you, but was so aggressively average looking that I may as well have been using a spiral notebook to schedule our days. But just like those, the planner could not inspire or excite me. Workaday, you might say, like orthopedic shoes and brown paper lunch sacks. It was a bare-bones, basic planner-everything I thought I needed. Then, I stumbled upon another popular planner. But all the time spent logging unnecessaries seemed like such a waste. FOMO sometimes guilt-drove me to fill in the blanks.

And while I was happy with the basic set-up of the planner, I always felt a wee-bit burdened by the pages and pages of extras that I never really used. For years, I used a popular homeschool planner. Last year, I made the decision to paper purge. I prune away any non-essentials.of my time, of my home, of my school. And so I purge all the extras, guilt-free. I'd rather focus my effort on things that bring me joy and add, not detract, from my day. As a busy, work-at-home, homeschooling mom, I don't have time for that. They require work, rob me of my energy, and breed unnecessary guilt.

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