Many of us jump into our home education adventure full of enthusiasm and excitement, albeit bumpered with a little nervousness and trepidation. Our excitement overrides the nerves we may feel because the energy we have at this point, is like a rocket ship blasting into outer space!

Many of us survive on little sleep because we spend the night enthusiastically researching and preparing “fun” lessons. Nothing else seems to matter. We eat, sleep and breathe homeschool – that’s how we seem to like it!

Eventually though, that rocket ship is going to run out of gas. If we don't refuel the tank, it is going to come to a stop. Not just a stop, but CRASH back down to earth with a mighty BANG that explodes chaos everywhere.

This, is what happens to the excitement, energy and passion we have as home educating mums if we don’t find a way to top that enthusiasm back up regularly.

When we notice our energy dipping and burnout setting in, we start to think something is wrong with us -that maybe we’re not cut out for homeschool afterall. We feel the impact of overwhelm creeping upon us. We become frustrated with the everyday routines that no longer seem to be working and wonder why everything isn't working out as we once hoped.