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It’s been a hard year. At times, it’s been a lonely year. A year full of challenges, surprises and raging pregnancy hormones. Despite that, I know that I have a lot to be thankful for. And yes, some days it takes me longer than others to count my blessings, but I’m always able to think of at least […]

I took some photos for a blog post. I wanted pictures with my girls in a field, enjoying nature and each other and life in general. You know, to show how we’re the quintessential care-free homeschooling family, frolicking through meadows on warm October mornings. In fancy dresses, naturally. The pictures came out exactly like I wanted. […]

It’s been a rough couple of weeks. I’ve been forced to drink cup after cup of hot tea and hold a sleeping newborn baby tucked up under my chin for literally hours on end. The only way I’ve been able to cope with such hardship is by knitting around the clock. A rough life indeed. Until yesterday, I focused […]

Well, I can’t say I’ve done a lot of knitting this week, but I’m happy to report that I finished off a work-in-progress that we’ve been slowly working on for the past nine months or so. 😉 Isn’t he a cutie? He’s so adorably teeny right now. Happy sigh. I love these little longies on […]

There are just under two weeks left in my pregnancy – nine days until my estimated due date. It’s funny – for most of this pregnancy I generally had no idea how far along I was and once a week or so I’d enter my due date into pregnology.com to find out. Then, once I hit […]

We started our homeschooling up again last month. Yup, halfway through the summer. We even started on the holiday Monday of the August long weekend. We’re soooooo mean. When you think about it, though, there was really no reason not to. Other than the daily ten minutes of copywork (handwriting) that River dreads, she thoroughly enjoys everything else. She […]