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2020 Read Alouds

1. The Wright Brothers 2. Talk to Me 3. Alice in Wonderland 4. The Fiddler's Gun 5. Fiddler's Green 6. Utopia 7. Ourselves 8. Outlaws of Time: The Legend of Sam Miracle 9. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration 10. The Stars 11. The Social Skills Guidebook 12. Outlaws of Time: The Song of Glory and Ghost 13. Hard Times 14. The Last of the Lost Boys 15. The Lonesome Gods 16. Pride and Prejudice 17. Kim 18. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 19. Little Women

2020 Books I’ve Finished

1. The Chosen 2. The Fatal Conceit 3. In Vital Harmony 4. Healing ADD 5. Gorgias 6. Fahrenheit 451 7. Reforming Apologetics 8. Super Human 9. Sophie's World 10. The Confession of St. Patrick 11. To Kill a Mockingbird 12. Jayber Crow 13. The End of Economic Man 14. The Philosophy of Tolkien 15. Simple and Direct 16. Ourselves 17. A Jane Austen Education 18. On Faith

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Spreading her ashes. Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.

Spreading her ashes. Ashes to ashes; dust to dust. Rest in peace, Aunt Cherie.

Who’da thought it? Q-Age-13 is the first person

Who’da thought it? Q-Age-13 is the first person to officially finish the 2020 #scholesisters #5x5challenge !! 🙌🙌 Her categories were
1) history/historical fiction
2) fiction
3) detective novels
4) science
5) fantasy fiction

I was surprised it wasn’t ALL fiction. 😂😉

#charlottemasonliving
#scholeeveryday
#homeschoollife
#summerreading

This arrived today. Experiment begins tomorrow. 🧐 The three-month money back guarantee made it an easy, no risk decision. I’ll report back later.

#homeschoollife
#charlottemasonliving
#charlottemasonmama
#homeschoolinggiftedkids
#twiceexceptional
#hyperactive
#add
#homeopathy
#insomniaproblems
#desperatetimescallfordesperatemeasures

#sisters waiting for lunch. #agathachristie on the

#sisters waiting for lunch. #agathachristie on the left, #lmmontgomery on the right. 💗

#summer
#charlottemasonliving
#homeschoollife
#homeschoolinghighschool

I'm always happy to find sugar-free treats Farmer

I'm always happy to find sugar-free treats Farmer O. can eat. This was today's new discovery when I was rummaging through the freezers at the grocery store searching out ice cream to serve when @rahimeting and her family come to visit. (I don't like to leave him out.)⁠⠀
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This one is sweetened with erythritol and monk fruit extract. I don't know how he'll feel about the coconut milk instead of cream, but I'm SURE he'll tell me all about it. 😂⁠⠀
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When we first realized some of our children couldn't eat certain things, it was SO HARD. We couldn't go out, couldn't hardly eat at other people's houses, and I spent many hours each day in the kitchen. There wasn't any such thing as gluten free pasta. The idea that foods would be labeled "ketogenic" seemed a pipe dream. ⁠⠀
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And yet here we are. The world got an upgrade in the food department. For this, I'm #thankful. ♥⁠⠀
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#momlife⁠⠀
#sugarfree

😂 @mystiewinckler would be proud of that answer

😂 @mystiewinckler would be proud of that answer.⁠⠀
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Today, O-Age-11 (aka Farmer O.) and I went for our annual summer date. I did the usual questionnaire with him (if you have done the Flourish #charlottemason annual homeschool review, you know what I mean). His answers were, as expected, entertaining. For example, "If you could take anything away from our homeschool, what would it be?"⁠⠀
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His answer: "Nothing. The government already took it all."⁠⠀
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Good point.⁠⠀
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#housearrest pretty much stinks, especially if you are an 11-year-old bundle of energy. (It's hard enough on a regular person.)⁠⠀
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This year's date involved copious amounts of sweet potato fries. How a child who rarely goes places without me managed to find out where you can get the most fries for $4 is beyond me, but he did. It's fun having these children getting older, even though I miss having toddlers around.⁠⠀
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Flourish is only available through the end of June so if you were planning to get your #annualreview game on, do it before it's too late! DM me if you need the link. ⁠⠀
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#flourishannualreview⁠⠀
#charlottemasonliving⁠⠀
#amblesideonline⁠⠀
#homeschoollife⁠⠀
#summer⁠⠀
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This amazing lady is 91 today. I like to ask her q

This amazing lady is 91 today. I like to ask her questions about her life when we visit her, and today she told me more about her older brother, Lloyd. She had three siblings who didn't make it to adulthood; Lloyd was one of them.⁠⠀
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Lloyd was the first homeschooler Gran ever knew. Their mother homeschooled him because of his epilepsy. She kept him close to her his whole short life. "He was very smart and the sweetest boy," she said, "and he could draw!"⁠ (Gran was a painter before she lost her vision, so this is especially meaningful to her.)⁠⠀
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She told me about the time they spent six months in Florida trying to find help for him. "No matter how poor we were," she explained, "my father ALWAYS had a car. Do you know why?" She was beaming. "He could take any old piece of junk and make it work. He was the best shade tree mechanic you ever met."⁠⠀
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Six months at who-knows-what cost to a family of many living in poverty, and they couldn't help him.⁠⠀
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"He died not long after we came home," she said. "It wasn't the epilepsy that killed him. Or maybe it was," she got thoughtful. "It was the fall," she finally said. I remembered her telling me when I was younger that he seized and fell out of a tree, so I didn't ask her to elaborate. "He never really recovered from it," she said. "We didn't have any money, and you didn't really go to the doctor back then anyhow. He probably punctured a lung. I don't know. But he never got better. And then he died."⁠⠀
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Gran was about 10-years-old when her brother Lloyd died at age 14.⁠⠀
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Something about the conversation reminded me of that place in Jayber Crow where Wendell Berry talks about remembering people who remembered back to the Civil War. Talking with Gran is sometimes a way of reaching back into pre-World War II history and seeing a little of what America was like.⁠⠀
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Or maybe it's just what life was like. IS like. Poverty and pain, yes, but also pride in a father with ingenius mechanical skills and a brother who could draw.

She’d probably be upset with me for posting this, so I’m trusting @laceyhillberg @candace__renee__ and @casey_sharifi won’t tell her. 😉

A new batch of babies. This never gets old. #dutc

A new batch of babies. This never gets old.
#dutchrabbit
#rabbitsofinstagram
#homeschoollife
#charlottemasonliving
#urbanhomestead

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