Tomorrow is the BIG day!!!

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Tomorrow. Tomorrow is coming. Can you feel the excitement/ the dread/the pure and ridiculous fear???  Oh, I’m feeling it. Just what is tomorrow, you ask? Well, you should ask. Tomorrow is OUR very first day of Classical Conversations!!!! What the heck is that, you ask? It is technically a tutoring service, but the boys and I just call it “school.” This is where lots and lots of home schooling families come together, divide our kids up in classes…..you know……like school…..only […]

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Time Deprived

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  Tonight the main thing my brain is stuck on is this:  Why can’t there be more hours in the day? I want to do it all. Every single thing. I want to wake up early and stay up late. I want to read my Bible before the day hits me in the face. I want to homeschool, have a neat and tidy house, and maintain a blog successfully–all at once. I want to stop and smell the roses. What […]

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“…our ability to do has increased.”

attitude, homeschool, moving

“I feel….really happy…..and that’s a big deal, for me.”  –Marlin on Finding Nemo I just want you all to know (especially my family) that today I feel truly happy. This is probably the first time since we left Virginia that  contentment and rest again reign in my heart. I can’t tell you exactly what made this summer so stressful for me. I know that I should always be thankful, as I have been extremely blessed in the life that I […]

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Our First Three Weeks in California Photoblog

California, homeschool, military life, moving

Sometimes you meet truly kind people who go over and beyond for you. Thank you so much, Hillary. This made move-in weekend so much easier. I know I already mentioned this. Some things bear repeating!!! Things are coming together. We actually have lots of things hanging on the walls now! One step closer to feeling like home! We all went to Moss Landing yesterday evening, in search of whales. The water was not as cold as I thought it would […]

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Home Schooling 4 Boys: So Much Work, But So Fulfilling

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Home Schooling 4 Boys: So Much Work, But So Fulfilling

He takes about 10 steps a day, but he still crawls most of the time. Apparently JD is a gradual, gradual, gradual learner. 🙂 My life is seriously adorable at the moment, and I am so thankful. It is a TON of work though. We bust our rears on this whole parenting gig. We were hoping to go to Moss Landing today and check out the whales. But not so fast. My friend Sarah found a used fence for sale […]

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Rolling With the Punches

big family life

Oh. my. goodness. You saw the schedule I posted the other day? Well, today JD has woken up at 6 AM, and now it’s 8, and he’s ready for a nap, and Caleb is still asleep. Let’s just say things didn’t go as planned today. I will have to roll with the punches and find a way to make this work. Lovely. Okay. Now it’s 8:49 AM. JD is sleeping. Caleb is now downstairs. Daniel looks like a neglected orphan […]

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But how do you do it all?

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home schooling kids and babies

If they are capable of building a different and interesting train track, like this, every single day during their lunch hour, perhaps I’m not expecting enough of them work-wise, here at the house. Look at this thing! It goes under the tables, over bridges, through Grand Central Station. It’s a work of art! All those boxes that are still packed up? Perhaps they could help more than I think. The vacuuming? I think they could do it. Folding clothes without […]

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The Just-Moved-In Phase

homeschool, military life, moving, parenting

Life kicked me around a little bit this week. A lot of things happened:  not unpacking. Not much of that happened at all. First, there was the whole beginning home-schooling thing–which I did before I even finished unpacking my house. (Maybe that wasn’t my BEST idea.) Then there was the energy problem. As in, I just don’t have enough–especially after 1pm. What is that? Second, we’re in that whole just-moved-in phase. We are still learning our area and even our […]

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Our First Three Days of Home School

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first three days of home school

We have made it through our first three days of home school. Only 2 more days until the weekend!!  Is it bad that I’m counting down to the weekend already?? This week is all about figuring out how I want to do this. I’m pretty sure the whole year will be about that really. Every single day has brought a different set of challenges. The first day it was Daniel in the afternoon. The second day it was a battle […]

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1st Day of Home School

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Many of you took extra minutes out of your day to help me out when I was nominated for VoiceBoks.com’s Top 10 of Military Blogs. That meant a lot to me that you would take the time to do that, so I want you all to see that your votes added up, and this blog landed at the #4 spot. To see the whole top 10 and the write-up about my blog, just click here: Top 10 Military Blogs on VoiceBoks.com. […]

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