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Seven Quick Takes on Wrapping Up Summer, Podcast Recording, Read Alouds, and MORE!

:: 1 :: Well, summer is almost over. It’s hard for me to say that because, to some extent, it hasn’t felt quite like summer to me. But on the other hand, I’m starting to have that back-to-school itch. I’m starting to feel ready to return to routine and structure. My hope is to finish everything but pre-reading on Saturday. I mean all of it: the printing, the loading of clipboards, all of it. And then? Then I want one final Continue Reading…
August 5, 2016
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Seven Quick Takes on Mere Motherhood, Podcast Season, Ben Hur, and MORE!

:: 1 :: I’ve been knee-deep in school planning, and I’ve got that accompanying overwhelmed feeling. This has made me extra thankful for Cindy’s book, Mere Motherhood. I read it all in a few days! I have to tell you: it was oh so refreshing. Summer is often hard for me because I watch everyone go on vacation, and I know we don’t get to go. This summer has been a bit much for me, and I started to feel, for the first Continue Reading…
July 29, 2016
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Seven Quick Takes on Summer Reading, Special SALE, Health Experiments, and MORE!

:: 1 :: Summer reading is still going strong around here. I thought you’d enjoy hearing what the children are reading. First up, E-Age-Fourteen just finished Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet. He spent so much time this past year reading Don Quijote that I think it’s been a great relief to him to read other books — simpler books. I wasn’t aware there were five books in this series until recently. Growing up, I only had the first three. He liked the first three Continue Reading…
July 15, 2016
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Seven Quick Takes on Son O’s Special Trip, Creating Blank Maps, I Complain, and MORE!

:: 1 :: Last week, Siah and O-Age-Seven went on a trip. It was pretty special, my Christmas gift to them, actually. For years and years, we kept thinking that someday we’d have the ability to pay for all of us to go visit Si’s family in the Nashville area. Years passed, the kids got bigger, and never could we pull it off. Si and Son E. took a trip to say farewell to a fading grandparent in Florida. Si and Continue Reading…
July 8, 2016