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This fall is going to be a huge year of transition for our family. Three out of four of our kids will be entering one of those milestone years in the school system. Our oldest son is going to high school. Our oldest daughter is going into junior high. And our youngest is going to…
I didn’t even realize it until a friend clued me in, but Monday was a big day for us. It was the day we could find out which teachers our kids got for the school year. Even after she told me, I didn’t bother to rush over to the school to find my children’s names…
Was it seriously just ONE week ago that I wrote a blog post mourning the fact that summer is half over? How could my mood have changed so dramatically in just SEVEN days? Before I go on, let’s get one thing straight. I love summer. I love spending time with my kids. I love the…
Since school is out, we decided to invite a bunch of our friends over for a game of kickball! It was one sport that we figured everyone would be able to play. It turned out to be a real nail-biter. The Nationals were up 12-6 at one point, but the Super Sonics game back and…
Today we joined a bunch of home school friends at an indoor trampoline place. The kids had a ton of fun! They had big spaces full of trampolines. Even the walls were trampolines. The boys spent the entire time on the dodge ball court. Alayna loved jumping in the foam pit. Even Jayda got…
A few weeks before Christmas break, I told my daughter we were going to do some flash cards to review her math facts. Up until that point, she had been cruising through her facts and didn’t seem to need much extra review. “Oh, like when we used to homeschool?” she asked. I tried to hide…
I always wonder how my kids are going to react when they are doing their math and one of the word problems asks them something like this: “Count the number of windows in your classroom.” Or “Make a graph showing the birthdays of everyone in your class.” I get nervous for a second, wondering if…
I’ve been joking this fall that my Friday mornings are like group therapy for home school moms. Honestly, Friday mornings have become the highlight of my week. The three big kids take their enrichment classes at co-op. I sit around with two of my favorite friends in the cafe area upstairs, sipping hot tea and…
The weather has been absolutely gorgeous here the past few days. I was going for a walk the other day and just soaking in the 74-degree temperature, the gentle breeze, the cloudless blue sky and the brightly-colored leaves on the trees. And I kept thinking about The Flood. Because that’s normal. Thinking about THE Flood….
A lot of people have been asking us how our new school situation is going this year. We are six weeks into the year, and we are finally getting into a routine and figuring out how to get everything done. I definitely created some confusion back in August when I wrote that six-part series on…
