Category Archives: Conferences

Welcome to Relaunch Week

Today is the first official day of the relaunch of Heathen Homeschoolers! Thank you goes out to all of our returning readers.  Thanks for not forgetting about the blog while we dealt with things in the offline world.  A warm welcome to all of the new readers who saw a tweet about the relaunch. Before…

Help Wanted

  I am currently looking for a small group of individuals to help coordinate a secular homeschooling conference to be held in Missouri.  Conference committee members are expected to help in their assigned roles to prepare for the conference and volunteer during the conference.  Conference committee members do not have to be in my local…

Secular Homeschool Gathering

All of the homeschool gatherings I have attended in Missouri have been a tad on the conservative side.  Last year a reader mentioned she would love to attend a gathering hosted by me because she would know it would be a secular event. That comment made me think about the possibility of maybe in a…

Pictures from Conference

Welcome back Heathen Mom

Last week I told you that I was leaving for NYC to attending BlogHer 2010.  What a crazy time it was! The trip had its fair share of ups and downs, but overall I had a good trip.  Some of the highlights… Arriving a day early to go out to Chef Tom Colicchio’s restaurant Craft…

Watch out NYC…Here comes Heathen Mom

Those of you who have read my blog for awhile know that I went to my first blogging conference last summer.  I had so much fun in Chicago during BlogHer last year that by the end of the conference, I had already decided that I would attend the conference in 2010.  I was one of…

So I went to a homeschool conference…..

  Here it is folks – my post about the homeschool conference I attended a few weeks ago.  I have attended this particular conference each year since we made the decision to homeschool.  The reason I have attended each year is simple….it is local.  The conference is hosted by a local homeschool support group.  Each…

Getting Ready for a Homeschool Conference

  Last year I wrote a post about getting ready to attend a homeschool conference.  I decided to update that post with some of my newer thoughts on conferences.  So if some of it sounds familiar, don’t think you are losing your mind…..I did write about this before, lol!  I am once again attending a…

I Survived

I survived BlogHer09 and my blog might just be better for it, lol.  Last week I attended a HUGE blogging conference in Chicago.  Sitting at the airport on my way to Chicago I began to have second…ok third thoughts about attending such a conference. Heathen Homeschoolers started out as something I wanted to do just…

A Long Weekend Awaits

My Fellow Heathens….. LOL Seriously folks, just wanted to let everyone know that I am flying to Chicago tomorrow to attend BlogHer 09.  This conference will have speakers talking about a wide variety of topics.  I am looking forward to meeting other homeschooling mamas who blog.  Shhhh, don’t tell Heathen Dad, but I am also…