Our Story ~ Year 2

If our first year was the year of Speed Racer, our second year was the year of Molasses Slow. After being warned by many homeschool ‘experts’ that it is impossible to find the perfect curriculum during your first year, I decided to use The Well Trained Mind for the older two and send Flower Child [...]

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Our Story ~ Year 1

After spending a month memorizing reading every homeschool curriculum catalog I could get my hands on, I made our first decisions.  For God So Loved the World, a unit study published by Christian Cottage Schools was going to be the backbone of our year.  (Yes, right from the beginning I knew our school would be [...]

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Early School Days

This picture is my favorite.  I’ve wanted to post it for a long time, but first I had to sift through all the old-fashioned photographs in boxes and FIND it! And… because they’re so cute… Even earlier school days:

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Our Story ~ The Mentors

I think these wonderful ladies are worth mentioning because each one of them has colored my homeschool view in her own unique way.  Since those first decision-making days we have moved four times to three different states.  Never again did I find an eclectic group of families similar to our first homeschool group.  We were [...]

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Whew! That's enough for tonight!

Why the need to write out Our Story? In the last few days I’ve started spending more time on the Sonlight Choosing Forum. While I am no means a magazine-cover homeschool mom, I have used Sonlight for a very long time in other than traditional ways. I’ve also made nearly every single mistake newbies are [...]

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Our Story ~ The Decision

Were you wondering if I would ever get to this part? Thanks to my being a SAHM and our availability to move where there was a need for a General Foreman, my dh was able to accept a promotion from his civilian boss much sooner than we had anticipated.  (God does have a way of [...]

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Our Story ~ Baby Steps

Literally, baby steps!  A new baby that God used to change both my heart and dh’s heart and give us a new purpose and priority for our family. My world turned upside down on January 17, 2000.  My very first day as a Stay-at-Home-Mom without the cushion of tax-free military pay or extra housing money.  [...]

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Our Story ~ The Seed is Nourished

OR… Setting Me Up for The Fall (all good books have subtitles that are much wittier than their title that the publisher wouldn’t use because it was too long or not catchy enough. ) Eventually we returned to Illinois with our two preschoolers in tow.  We bought a house, I got a job, and life [...]

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