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If you ever see a picture of us gathered around our family table eating well, laughing loudly, breaking bread, telling stories, or praising His spirit, please understand that the scene you are witnessing is the result of hard work, commitment, love, and faith.
It’s what we gathered close to our hearts and comforted us so much that it stayed with us always. It’s us saying 𝘕𝘖 to whatever threatens to overwhelm and destroy the things we value as a family.
No matter how often we move with the military, our house is our 𝘏𝘖𝘔𝘌. Our learning is the part of our life, binding us together as we share stories, and lift our eyes towards truth.
𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲, 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦.
Hubby pulled out the turkey fryer while the boys played in the backyard, and treated us to a fun, old fashioned, crab boil. So I wrapped the table in paper and paired it with crusty sourdough bread, sweet tea, and a cake from the glorious bakery at Costco.
A sunny, 50 degree Washington day is summer in my book. But still a bit too chilly to eat outside, even with tons of garlic buttery fingers 😂
🌿 Now tell me friends, what’s your favorite family meal?
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Wrapping up the end of the year our last grade photo. These boys are finishing up their levels at their own pace, on their own time. They’re finishing with joy. They’re finishing with hearts full of stories and memories. This pandemic may have taken our youth sports, friends’ birthday parties, co-ops, and field trips, but it didn’t take His love or our joy.
As I enter my 13th year homeschooling📚, If I could go back to the beginning, I’d tell myself, Before you worry about language arts curriculums, or math programs, or anything else, focus on the relationships and consider their hearts first. I’m grateful to the Holy Spirit for whispering the importance of their hearts, early on.
I go into each new year asking myself if I am really seeing each child - individually. I think about their dreams, their hearts, their struggles, and their character. I think about the things they cannot fully articulate yet and I try to find ways to build in conversations and stories to help give them a voice.
I am always asked what is my favorite thing about homeschooling. It is, by far, the relationships we have formed over the years. Yes, relationships are challenging! It’s not always rainbows and sunshine around here, but we are together in needing and giving grace, and that’s what matters most. I’m not schooling them, we are learning together.
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It’s time to change the narrative to who really is moving us forward right now as a society.
I think about the early mornings and the late nights mothers put in to catch up on work and school, squeezing in that last load of laundry.
𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥, and 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞 are the words reflect the last few months and how mothers have persevered and showed up for their families.
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As a kid, I was told “Pretty girls only have straight hair” I was always insecure about my frizzy curls. Now that I’m older, I couldn’t be more in love with my natural hair, 💁🏻♀️ frizzes and all.
Curly sisters, love your natural curls & flip your hair like you just don’t hair 😉😘
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The boys and I are always ‘chasing the spark’. After homeschooling for over 12 years, I’ve found what works and what doesn’t, and childhood directed learning is still our favorite way to study and learn. If they dig up knowledge on their own, in the very wise words of the lovely Charlotte Mason:
“𝐈𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.”
My older boys (12,14, and 16) are fascinated in coding and computer science engineering. & This week we were gifted three #BigFatNotebooks, including @workmanpub newest release
“𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐨 𝐀𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠”
The boys picked up the detailed steps and dived right into their lessons. Later, they had no trouble explaining what happened each step of the way -thanks to the clear concise, visual instructions.
You can find these books in my @amazon shop, just click the link in my bio. They are colorful, visually engaging, and thorough!
Alexander is so excited about learning programming languages like Scratch, Python, HTML, and CSS. He’s already started writing his own website pages.
From beginning to end, these books are a fun learning experience that produces a chain reaction of questions that draw kids farther into the world of Computer Science And Coding. Check out all their titles, they have everything from math and science to history and English. Cheers to chasing the spark!!! 🔥
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