Author: Mia
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Homebodies
Last week was exhausting. Too exhausting to try and document until now. In addition to core studies at home, I regularly shuttle the critters to speech therapy, piano, flute, general music, art class, PE, 4-H, and Awanas. I try my best to consolidate all of that into three days of driving, to protect our “at…
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Fry Night: A Cautionary Tale
Consider this post a warning to my Oregon friends who also know my (much older) sister, Bethany… Should she and her husband invite you over for “fry night”, my advice is to bow out gracefully. Actually, run– escape while you still can, lest they ensnare you in their web of deep-fried goodness. Once your eyes have been…
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Grindstone: Back To It.
Vacation hangovers, gotta love ’em… said no mom, ever. Seriously, the battle (“WHAT?! We have to do MATH today? Ughhhhh…”) to resume our regularly scheduled programming is the primary reason I elect to homeschool year round. I tried to covertly sneak in school whilst vacationing, in hopes it would lessen the strife upon returning home… Alternating Disney DVDs with chapters read aloud…
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Adventures in Oregon
Almost 2,000 miles later, we are home from our whirlwind Oregon road-trip. After pin-balling between Bend, the capitol, the coast, Portland, and everywhere in between, we pulled back into our Montana driveway some time after 1am last night. Studly Husband went right back to work this morning. Apart from sheer exhaustion, the residual sentiment I’m feeling after a…
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The Oregon Trail
As our annual visit to Oregon approaches, my stress level is escalating, accordingly. Going home is kinda hard. We haven’t even pulled out of the driveway yet, and I’m exhausted. I grimace knowing that feelings are bound to be hurt, regardless of the marathon of visits that we squeeze between Little Man’s gauntlet of doctors appointments. For…
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Creature Comforts
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow nor reap nor store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?” -Matthew 6:26 A rogue parakeet landed in our next-door-neighbors’ driveway, after apparently surviving several days on my sunflowers alongside the resident magpie…
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Fall Bucket List
Fall is my frrravorite… “the sun may warm the grass to life, the dew the drooping flower; and eyes grow bright and watch the light of autumn’s opening hour…”* Sadly, my favored season lasts mere weeks here in the greater Bozeman area. To effectively carpe autumnal diem, before the snow arrives, one must dive in with proactive gusto…
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Mother Nature
“At three o’clock the entire family turned out to walk, for all the active young bodies must have exercise; and in these walks the active young minds were taught to see and love the providence of God in the beautiful miracles which nature was working before their eyes.” -Louisa May Alcott
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Halloween On The Cheap
Because we are nerdy homeschoolers who love any excuse to dress up and socialize with the neighbors, we spend a lot of time —but not a lot of money— hand crafting our kids’ Halloween costumes, each year. In fact, it is not at all uncommon for the girls to start conspiring for the next Halloween first thing each November 1st.…
