Hello — I’m Sheri.

Numbers, first

I was the student who actually liked math. It made sense to me all the way through high school, and when I started college it seemed obvious to follow it — so I began working toward a degree in Accounting. I loved the order of it: every entry accounted for, every column resolving into a clean total.

Then, people

Three years into accounting, I noticed something I couldn’t un-notice: the part of any project I looked forward to was never the spreadsheet. It was the person across the table. I wanted to work with people one-on-one — to understand what someone cares about and find where my strengths could meet their need. So I changed course and earned a B.S. in Human Services, a field that sits just upstream of counseling.

That decision gave me the conviction this whole practice rests on: we all need help in different areas, because none of us is proficient in everything.

Years of service

Out of college I worked for several nonprofits, including a season as secretary to a Lieutenant Colonel of the Air Force — work that will teach you precision, discretion, and calm the way few classrooms can. Different desks, same thread: keeping things in order so that other people could do what mattered.

Home, and Charlotte Mason

Then came babies, and with them a clarity I hadn’t expected: I wanted to be home, living life alongside my kids and helping them learn it. Somewhere in those early years I met the writings of Charlotte Mason, and they struck home immediately. Here was an education that fostered imagination in its proper measure and treated curiosity as the engine of a whole life — the thing that keeps us learning long after our “school age” has ended.

I’ve been teaching that way ever since: short, living lessons; real books; narration; games; and the patient habit of asking why.

Now — Lessons & Ledgers

This little practice is both halves of my story finally working together. The numbers girl in me keeps small-business books clean, balanced, and honest. The human services heart in me sits down one-on-one with a learner and stays until the idea makes sense. Different tables — the same care.