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The Sweater Reveal
This past month has been stupidly hot. And I don’t like hot. I lie around on the couch moaning to anyone that will listen, which is pretty much only the baby – he likes it when I lie down because then he can stab his sharp little fingernails up my nose. At one point as I lay on…
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A Day in the Life of our Homeschool
Earlier this year, I tried several different times to do a “Day in the Life” post because I love reading these kind of posts on other homeschool blogs. I kept putting it off though – partly because every day is so different from the last and partly because I’m afraid that people will judge me because the kids…
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From Waldorf to Charlotte Mason
Have you ever wondered about our switch from Waldorf to Charlotte Mason education? This is why we moved from one to the other in our homeschool, and what attracted me to both styles of educating. We started school again on the first Monday of August – a whole month earlier than the public schools up here…
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Finding a Summer Rhythm
Back in May, River put down her Calvin and Hobbes book and exclaimed that summer vacation was less than a month away. I laughed out loud before I could stop myself – summer vacation? What summer vacation? Our whole school year has been “relaxed”. With a baby in the house, even our best laid lesson plans were often interrupted…
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All the Time in the World
I started writing a post awhile ago about why we started homeschooling. There are lots of reasons, of course, but the best reason I could come up with is that homeschooling gives my kids and I time together. Lots of time. Too much time. (Ha ha. Kidding… mostly). Take our mornings, for example. Back when my…
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From Scratch
One of the most popular posts on my first blog was how I messed up four batches of cinnamon rolls in one week. No matter how hard I tried to make them, they came out … well … hard. Ha. Thankfully, complete and total failure didn’t turned me off baking altogether – I just dusted…
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The Homeless Man and My Daughter
The other day we were driving home from Ikea and we stopped at a red light beside a homeless man. He stood on the median right beside our car with a scrap of cardboard that said something like “Hungry. Anything helps.” I knew I didn’t have anything; we had just left Ikea where I’d actually put my…
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2 Easy April Fools’ Day Tricks to Pull on your Kids
We were able to pull off a few April Fools’ Day tricks on River this morning. We stayed up late last night to get them set up – super late because just like Christmas Eves and the nights before birthdays, River couldn’t fall asleep and was awake until after midnight. When she fell asleep, we sprang…
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My Misadventures with Chalk Paint
My husband and I took the girls to a frog exhibit a few weeks ago. When we passed by the gift shop, the girls noticed the small aquariums with the African Dwarf Frogs for sale. They of course asked if we could buy one and I of course said no and my husband of course…
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Our Nursery is Done!
Last night we finished decorating the baby’s room. Yeah, yeah, I know he’ll be five months old on Saturday, but what can I say? He’s kept us busy. When we first decided to give him a room of his own, we weren’t even planning to decorate it. I mean, sure, I figured eventually we’d paint…