The Pioneer Homeschool Blog
Real-life homeschooling, homestead adventures, faith, and family. Pick a topic or scroll through everything.
Iron & Love: Celebrating 6 Years of Teamwork
Six years of marriage, a whirlwind proposal, and why iron is the perfect symbol for a marriage built on teamwork.
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When Life Gets Messy
Errands, appointments, homeschool, and a flipped mattress. A reminder that real life is meaningful even when it isn't put together.
Lessons Learned Through Baking Bread
A homeschool bread-making assignment turned into a lesson in measuring, patience, responsibility, and joy.
Logan's Light: From a Thought to a Finished Book
How a quiet idea became Logan's Light, a children's book about grief, hope, and sibling love written in memory of our son.
Life Lately: Love, Loss, and Finding Our Rhythm Again
A look back at a year of bucket-list travel, a published book, losing my dad, Landon leaving for the Army, and finding our homeschool rhythm again.
I'm Back! What's New on Pioneer Homeschool!
After a quiet season, Pioneer Homeschool is back with family recipes, homeschool tips, curriculum we actually use, and family adventures.
2024
Book Dreams: To Write or Not to Write?
Wrestling with whether to write a book honoring my son Logan's God-fearing life, and asking readers to help me decide.
Where Did the Time Go?
A city hall job, an at-home daycare experiment, and finding our way back to a normal that works for our homeschool family.
2022
School Is Back In Session!
Starting the new homeschool year with a 3rd grader, a 10th grader, and an almost 1-year-old, and remembering Logan along the way.
Happy Independence Day!
Remembering the true meaning of the Fourth of July, holding to our values, and praying for our country.
What Is Love?
What 1 Corinthians 13 teaches about love, comparing ourselves to other moms, and finding a love greater than social media likes.
School's Out For the Summer!
End-of-year homeschool reflections, summer expectations for our kids, and why we're switching to The Good and the Beautiful curriculum.
What Is the Utmost Important Thing to You?
Old-fashioned values in a changing world, chasing social media likes, and narrowing down what matters most: faith, family, and friends.
Spring Has Sprung!
Meet our first backyard chicks, Bella, Daisy, Chicken, and Nuggie, plus the veggies we started from seed indoors.
Perseverance
Watching our kids push through hard schoolwork, and how faith, family, and friends keep us persevering when we want to quit.
Spring Is In the Air!
Spring gardening, camping, and the big family decision to start raising backyard chickens again.
Hi! I'm Jana, the Mom here!
Meet Jana, homeschooling since 2010, and the family behind Pioneer Homeschool: Todd, Landon, Josie, Erik, and our son Logan.