Category: Posts
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A Bookworm Vacay
In a few weeks, we’re wrapping up schoolwork and kicking off summer with a special field trip– one that we’ve geared our studies around for months and planned for years. Our recent library checkouts (and new acquisitions to our permanent home library) ought to provide a hefty hint as to our destination… (click pics for…
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Spring Reading
Forget Spring cleaning, I’m all about Spring reading. So long as I remember to tote a book along as I drive carpool to and from the kids’ endless activities, I manage to squeeze in a fair amount of reading within the margins of my busy mom-life. The following are a few recent titles I’ve enjoyed…
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April Birthday Parade
Birthday season’s officially upon us! In our household, April heralds the start of our fast-yet-furious birthday parade… …Beginning with my dad’s, which we celebrated at Top Golf, a new favorite pastime even for this non-golfer who throws clubs in rage at the put-put course. Then Handsome Husband’s… I woke him promptly at midnight on his…
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Holy Week
Happy Easter! He is risen! This Holy Week we’ve been thinking about Jesus’ sacrifice and gift of life– good golly we’re grateful for our Lord and Savior. Good Friday we walked through a powerful, hands-on experience of the stations of the cross at our old church. Resurrection Sunday our extended family joined us for a…
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Day in the Life (Every Day I’m Shufflin’)
It’s a busy season. Because of homeschool, we have a tremendous amount of flexibility and freedom, and our kids are receiving a vibrant, multi-faceted education. Still, because we’re facilitating that education it’s all on us, and every day WE. ARE. SHUFFLING. For your amusement, and for me to look back on one day as an explanation…
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What Happens in Homeschool
“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.” Marie Curie Thank you, Lord, for these children– these three precious persons who call me Mom. Thank you for the support and partnership of Husband as we undertake…
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Goin’ to the Chapel
I think it’s been a decade since I attended a wedding. As Husband & I are just about to ring in our 18th wedding anniversary (!!!), the flux of nuptial announcements in our mailbox has waned with our apparent old age. This fact has further compounded my utter joy at my baby sister’s recent engagement.…
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Party of Five
We’ve just mailed off our final post-placement adoption report to our agency and China. Five years ago we became a family of five. Accompanying a thorough update on Little Man’s growth, adjustment, development, and attachment we included the requisite eight photographs to document his life here in America, in our family. In truth, limiting the number…
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Twitterpated
Spring has arrived in the Willamette Valley. Everywhere I turn birds are chirping, trees are flowering, and dormant bulbs are emerging to blossom triumphant. The kids are spending more hours outdoors and Husband and I have resumed our daily walks. Suddenly everything is green again, alive again– new again. Even the intermittent rain showers can’t get…
