“Love this You Be You Checklist. Such a good reminder and helps ground us and fill us up for the next year. It helps us with our perspective and remembering our "why" for homeschooling. It breathes life back into our souls that are just as tired and worn out as our kiddos do by the end of the homeschool year. Our “sense of self” is so crucial in our role as mothers—we live in a society in which we are praised for martyring ourselves in motherhood. We are then left depleted and resentful when we stay in that place and lose ourselves. I struggled in that place for a long while. It required me to pull way back and rediscover who I am at my core—who I am outside mother, wife, and all the other roles I play. And I think we lose ourselves a bit more when we are homeschool moms and so we have little time for separation from our kiddos.”

Toni Lynn, Homeschool Mama