Spilled Milk Blog

  • Free biography unit study for every kind of teacher! Thank you for all you’re doing.

    Free biography unit study for every kind of teacher! Thank you for all you’re doing.

    To every teacher out there right now who’s trying to just figure this whole mess out, we see you! We hear you! From classroom teachers trying to navigate Zoom lessons to unexpected homeschool moms trying to fill your days, we know it’s crazy hard right now, and we want to make it easier for you.… Read more

  • Daily quarantine thought: Missing your life

    Daily quarantine thought: Missing your life

    I keep thinking of this line from Spanglish. Yes, the 2004 Adam Sandler rom-com which netted only 53% on rotten tomatoes. That one. We’ve brought you Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis, and now . . . Spanglish. Bear with me. Let’s be friends: Join our email list Mid-way through the film,Tea Leoni’s character cheats on her long-suffering… Read more

  • Returning to “normal life” again will be a big adjustment too. Get ready for it.

    Returning to “normal life” again will be a big adjustment too. Get ready for it.

    Hey there, mama. You’ve been staying home with your kids for a long, hard couple months. You’re exhausted and are looking forward to nothing more than a girls’ night out in the post-quarantine world. Chips and salsa, sangria, and clothes that aren’t yoga pants—if they still fit—are in our future soon. Mental note: I need… Read more

  • Grief is a good guide through dark times

    Grief is a good guide through dark times

    Lately I have had the sensation of a heavy weight on my chest. I’ve laid awake at night and wondered if my off-and-on coughing plus this pain wasn’t allergies but the coronavirus, especially since I had pneumonia after the flu in January. But, a test came back negative. Along with my results came a sigh… Read more

  • Daily quarantine thought: De-sentimentalizing Motherhood

    Daily quarantine thought: De-sentimentalizing Motherhood

    We’re heading into Mother’s Day season (although, it’s going to be very different this year) and that has us thinking about how much we’ve sentimentalized motherhood. And it’s not all that helpful. Caroline took a deep dive into the topic, which left me in tears after reading it. You can see her post, The Un-Sentimentality… Read more

  • Daily quarantine thought: You don’t have to save the world. You just have to get through today.

    Daily quarantine thought: You don’t have to save the world. You just have to get through today.

    This new way of living is hard. My body aches by the end of the day, and I wake up in the morning exhausted. We were already a homeschool family, so that hasn’t changed for us. But my five-year-old with autism has lost all her therapeutic services that we rely on. Actually, that’s not technically… Read more