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14 Tips for Your First Year of Classical Conversations

Classical Conversations, First Year of Classical Conversations, home school, homeschool
14 Tips for your first year of Classical Conversations

 Tomorrow night is parent night for our Classical Conversations campus. This will mark the ending of our very first year of Classical Conversations. Joshua’s class will be reciting the Preamble, Caleb’s class will be reciting the first 12 elements of the Periodic Table, and all of the classes combined will be reciting John 1:1-7 in both English and Latin. Oh guess what. As their teacher, I learned all this stuff too. That’s right. It’s like going back to school yourself. […]

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“I wanna live like there’s no tomorrow..”

accomplishment, beach, California, toddlers

Today I took all the boys to the beach, by myself. Yes, it was a bona fide foolish thing to do. I might not try it again any time soon. It’s been warm here, and I just really wanted to go to the beach! The boys very excitedly dressed in their swimming trunks and packed in the van. We’ve never gotten ready to go somewhere so quickly! Do you have a soundtrack to your life? I am one of those […]

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Screwdrivers, Food, and Price Increases: Yes, it makes sense!

attitude, baby milestones, blog, blogging

Have I mentioned that I only have 4 weeks of teaching left for this year? Surely I have mentioned this because I am plumb GIDDY. The last few weeks of teaching are a lot like the last few weeks of ANYTHING. It’s getting a little sloppy. People that say “finish strong” are basically just getting on my nerves at this point. So here’s what’s been going on: 1.Caleb developed a sudden fascination with a screw driver today. The toys took […]

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Why I Don’t Blog About the News

Bible, blog, faith

Sometimes when it feels like the whole world is in an uproar, believe it or not, I DO find it hard to go on my blog and talk about what’s going on in our little bubble this week. I do read the news. My heart does go out to the suffering. We do teach our boys about the world they are growing up in. We do our best to look at all sides of each issue. This just felt like […]

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How in the world are you going to home school?

answered prayer, Bible, faith, family, God provides, homeschool

This past week had the potential to be a total nightmare. This is “Finals Week” of the 3rd quarter for Alan, and I’m the kind of person that can only handle all four of my own children, by myself, for so long. Enter the in-laws. Their timing was perfect. Well, for me it was anyway. They probably would have liked to have spent more time with their son, sure, but I really just needed someone to take my mind off […]

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Kayaking Monterey Bay with DaddyO and Alan

California, pictures, sea lions
seal lions monterey

The best way to experience Monterey Bay is to grab a paddle and board a kayak. This place is amazing!!! Sea otters, seals, sea lions, pelicans, kelp, and divers are things you are guaranteed to see first hand. Would you believe that some of the Monterey Bay locals actually don’t appreciate this at all? Many of them put these sea lions, that I find so exciting, right into the “nuisance” category!! It surprised me too!! See, on the Eastern U.S. […]

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What did I expect this beautiful mess to look like???

4 kids, attitude, blessings, family, homeschool, housekeeping

BOOM!! bounce bounce bounce The school day is done, and I was answering blog comments, and I heard this loud noise. Don’t worry. All is well. I ran to check it out. I scanned the front yard. No one there, but it sounded like someone had hit our house with a basketball!  Weird! Just then, Joshua barged in the back door and proudly proclaimed, “I just kicked a soccer ball OVER the roof! I’ll go get it!” Big boys. I […]

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This Year

Bible verses, blessings, Christmas, goals

Christmas vacation was exactly what I think I needed. It was so refreshing to spend time with our families. I was horribly selfish. I slept late every single morning. No, really. One day, I actually slept until 1:00pm. No kidding! I did almost no work at all. None. I sat on sofas, opened presents galore, drank copious amounts of flavored coffee and let other people chase J.D. around. You can’t pour sweet tea from a broken pitcher, and this Momma […]

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Thank you. Merry Christmas. Excuse Me. I’m sorry.

4 kids, Christmas, parenting, vacation

When you travel cross-country for Christmas with four squirmy little boys, there are lots of opportunities to rub elbows with the general public. I’m a little different than some parents, because I TRULY enjoy these opportunities to be out, even with my children in tow.  I love people! I miss people! We’ve all read a whole lot of internet articles of parents complaining about things people say to them and their children in public!   They complain about comments like […]

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The results are in!! Thank you for your votes!!!

award, blog, blogging, friends

Just a quick post to let all of you WONDERFUL folks know that you can stop voting now. The results are in and I am……..drum roll please…….. #9 on Voicebok.com’s list of the Most Influential Blogs of 2014!!!! The list will be posted later this month, and I will, of course, be sharing it with ya’ll as soon as it’s posted. I think it’s like one of those countdown of the year’s most influential blogs kind of deals. Exciting huh???  This is […]

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