Kate Wicker

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Now Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming…

I’m back to mom blog business as usual where I annoy you with sharing the silly things my kids do or say. Today I’m even featuring samples of my child’s excellent homeschool education.

The Star Wars obsession is not letting up. Not at all as made evident by the doodles around Madeline’s spelling work.

It’s not easy to make out, but that’s a grinning Jabba the Hutt.

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· February 4, 2012 · Tagged With: Homeschooling, Madeline · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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  1. Roselady says

    February 4, 2012 at 9:21 am

    I think the chained Princess Leia makes that clear!
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  2. kimberlee says

    February 4, 2012 at 11:20 pm

    It is truly excellent homeschool work! Super fantastic artwork and love the Leia. We have major doodlers in our house – that’s how I ended up with all these artists. Spelling really needs something to jazz it up, and what’s better than Jabba? A++
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  3. Judith says

    January 2, 2014 at 10:18 am

    “I am still afraid I’ve made the wrong decision, or acquiesced to the wrong decision, but what I’m really afraid of stems from an inflated ego. All my life I’ve tried to be perfect (or at least I’ve hoped to appear perfect to others) while stumbling miserably along. In my pre-mom days, it was my body or my grades or how I “performed” as a daughter that I threw myself into, but since becoming a mom I can get a little obsessive compulsive about being the perfect mom even though I know there’s no such thing here in this broken world”.

    That is what I struggle with too! Ph thanks for putting into words Kate

Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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