Its the last day of July, which means school is approaching. YIPPEE! Even as homeschoolers it’s an exciting time. I clean all our bookshelves and declutter the art closet and drawers. I buy our workbooks (the kids literally cheer about this) for the up coming year and register for Classical Conversations. Everyone enjoys new crayons,…
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Homeschooling creates opportunities for me and my children that a public education would not (or not as easily). A couple months ago I decided to pursue (more diligently) opportunities to cultivate compassion in the hearts of my children. Its not mad science, children are not born compassionate creatures. Compassion must be taught and learned. I…
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God called us to homeschool quite awhile ago. I was disobedient and well my hubby just wasn’t on board…so it was easy for me to continue in disobedience. You can read all about that whole experience a few blog posts back…all about hubby’s heart change, kid’s last day of public school etc. This post is…
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I’m clueless today where to start because there is so much I would love to write about since we started back in Feb. I promise I won’t always write about just homeschooling…I’ll write about life too. For now…we all love blogs with pictures, so here we go…. Sensory pans…lots of people doing it…I did two…I’m…
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Eli wants to know how many parts there will be! He wants 50 or 100 parts. Don’t worry, there won’t be! He loves reading my “stories.” Honestly he just loves to read. Magic Tree House book are HOT right now, he devours them as soon as he picks them up. Ok, now part 4… St.…
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For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. -Jeremiah 29:11 I’m a little disappointed this morning because I thought I had some pictures to post from our last day at St. Johns, but I guess I only…
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Oh, you may be wondering what could possibly be so scary about homeschooling two little children? I may still even be too scared to go there, but things like…Isolation – for me and the kids! My son is super brilliant it won’t be much longer he will outsmart me! Then what? Thoughts of FAILURE. Not…
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I’m excited! We started a new adventure in our family this past Valentines Day! We pulled our children out of their wonderful (and I do mean wonderful) Lutheran school to HOMESCHOOL! Yep that big H word that everyone is judgemental about. Oh…I should tell you…the word SCHOOL…makes me stomach turn, so you may have to…
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