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closing chapter
In 2005, I started a little blog called Rose Cottage, which I thought of as an online scrapbook as I began life as a homeschool mom. A few years later, I created See Jamie blog, where I wrote for over a decade about homeschooling and adoption. My kids are now mostly grown so I no…
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Life lately: it’s March {2021}
“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” Muhammad Ali We did something new as a family: indoor rock climbing! This was a fun outing to celebrate our youngest son’s 12th birthday. It was a first for us all, and we all got a chance to…
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We don’t do “bad” grades
When my youngest girl returned to homeschooling last year, we had to work on a mindset shifts about grades. Specifically, that there are no bad grades in our homeschool. Even my son who has never attended school still stressed about bad grades. I suppose this was from hearing his sister worry about her grades, and…
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Life lately: Hello, February {2021}
“Instructions for living a life.Pay attention.Be astonished.Tell about it.” ~Mary Oliver, Sometimes Hey, look! — It’s my third post already this year. Are y’all still reading? I miss the days when folks regularly commented. Those were the good old days… then again, I’m from ancient blogland times; I started blogging the year Kathryn started kindergarten…
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Acknowledging limits & chasing sunshine
I have no lack of ideas of things I’d love to do. But there’s the issue of being a human who has finite time and energy, as well as commitments that may not fall in the category of things I’m excited about but are nonetheless necessary. Like laundry and cleaning the shower and feeding kids…
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It’s a new year – finally!
The year wasn’t all bad for us, but it certainly had challenges. There’s been so much talk about everyone being excited for a new year, but things don’t feel different to me just because we flipped the calendar. Even so, I’m glad to see the tail end of 2020. We smoked ourselves out of the…