Author: Jamie
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Life lately: September 2017
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.” ~Helen Hunt Jackson The calendar says it’s autumn, but we still have plenty of warm days ahead. I adore this time of year because midday feels like summer but the mornings are deliciously cool and perfect…
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A day in the life: one random Monday
What does a typical day in our household look like with homeschooling, one kid in school, and a mom working part-time outside the home? Keep in mind, we are (mostly) unschoolers. We make a point to fill our lives with good literature and big ideas. We explore our world whenever possible, and we believe real-life…
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Hope for when your child walks away
There’s an old story of a young man who insists upon taking his inheritance early so he can go live it up in the big city and do whatever the heck he wants. To him, that’s what freedom looks like: no accountability, no one checking up on him. For a little while, he has himself…
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Life lately: August 2017
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” -Richard Bach It’s been a big month (more on that in a minute) but a definite highlight of the month is Lindsey and her little family moving just up the road from us!!! happenings…
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Are we unschoolers?
When I started homeschooling twelve years ago, I knew I didn’t want our at-home learning to look like traditional school, but what I thought of as so radical at first was really stepping tentatively just outside the box. Kathryn was just five and we’d both been part of a busy preschool the year before, where…