Author: Jamie
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Practicing Gratitude: Gifts 326-350
Listing more of my one-thousand gifts… 326) talking more with my sister lately 327) sleeping late with my hubby on his birthday 328) Kathryn moved to a chess class at a more convenient time 329) a couple of good visits with my dad 330) laughter 331) Ken having time to help with homeschool this week…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 2
So this was the week when my dad was in the hospital with a mystery illness. The super-frustrating part is he still has no answers, no diagnosis. I think I’m going to have to get rather insistent with someone at the hospital to tell us what is going on. They are talking about discharging him,…
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Practicing Gratitude: Gifts 301-325
Why is it that it seems harder to come up with these on a difficult week? I’m no less blessed, but my mind jumps off onto things it just doesn’t need to jump off onto. So really, counting my gifts is even MORE important on the difficult weeks. With that prompting me, here are twenty-five…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: busy, busy!
So this was the week with all the running around. No, wait — this week just begins all the running around I’ll be doing this year. Ack. I need a nap just thinking about it all! I made notes during the week so I could attempt to be somewhat coherent in this post since we’ve…
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What is Hybrid Homeschooling?
Several readers have asked about hybrid homeschooling, so in this post, I will explain it as well as I can! The dictionary definition of hybrid (as an adjective) is this: “composed of mixed parts” or “composite; formed or composed of heterogeneous elements.” So hybrid homeschooling is an education composed of elements of homeschooling and elements…