Category: homeschool

  • The Week before The Wedding!

    I assure you, no one in this family has claimed boredom this week! Kathryn has been doing VBS at her dad’s Messianic synagogue all week. Their focus was on missions, and yesterday they visited an apartment complex to do some ministry for the kids there. Lindsey has been coming and going all week. She babysat…

  • The Week with Lindsey’s 1st Job!

    The Week with Lindsey’s 1st Job!

    Lindsey started her first real job this week! Of course she knew I’d have to take a picture of her in her uniform on her first day and she was a good sport about it. {I was kind enough not to follow her into Chick-fil-a and photograph her at work!} Lindsey also started back to…

  • We’re not doing school right now, but…

    We haven’t been doing school these past two weeks, but we’re still learning. We’ve seen a baby cowbird being cared for by it’s surrogate parents, a pair of house wrens. We’ve had cowbirds around for years, and we knew they laid eggs in other birds’ nests, so we figured it was a matter of time…

  • How & Why: Our 2-in-1 High School Year

    After all the battles we had about Lindsey’s desire to go to public school (which she did last year), she has decided to come back home for school this year. Why: If Lindsey stayed in public school, it could take four more years, or two years plus two summers of math in summer school to…

  • Our Week: Endings, Beginnings, and Paint!

    In my life this week: Thinking and discussing the possibilities in regards to a second adoption. Lindsey is finally talking about it and giving some input, which is immensely helpful. I’ve been talking to friends who have experience in specific situations to help us figure out if we can realistically handle certain issues. Ken and…