Author: Abigail Prescott

Abigail Prescott began her homeschooling journey in 1986 as a fourth-grader. After graduating with honors from the University of Arkansas, she married her college sweetheart, and worked in non-profit administration before "retiring" to raise three kids, and become a "second generation" homeschool mom. In addition to teaching her own children, she is a licensed Director for Classical Conversations (currently Challenge III), and enjoys reading, baking, and watching Razorback football.

  • How It All Began

    Our CC community’s inaugural retreat — oh-so-creatively christened “Moms’ Retreat” — came to fruition in February 2019. The weekend was the culmination of my visit to a major homeschooling convention the year before, coupled with a desire to build more community within our community, and an insistent prompting from the Holy Spirit. The February doldrums…

  • Why a Moms’ Retreat?

    In the spring of 2018 — nearly a year before our very first moms’ retreat — I went to a nationally-known homeschool convention with three friends. We spent a weekend in the big city, stayed in a hotel, shared leisurely meals, talked our hearts out, and enjoyed every minute. Except for the ones we spent…

  • Rest: A Model for Mothers

    As homeschooling mothers, we understand that life is full of comings and goings. Our weeks are crammed full of them. Community Day, Mock Trial practice, piano lessons, play date, a trip to the grocery store, then back again for the thing we forgot, soccer on Saturday, church on Sunday. Wash, rinse, repeat. God has assigned…