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What I’ve Been Doing

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]r maybe we should say what Hayley has been doing, since I always feel like she works harder at these things than I do. This is a good thing, since I can tend to be a formatting disaster, while Hayley is a formatting genius. So anyhow, I’ve been working away at getting the next set in my line of printable phonics lessons up and into the shop. And now it is! For those of you who have been waiting for this {and emailing me Continue Reading…
April 6, 2016
Other Thoughts
Welcome to 2016!

[dropcap]I[/dropcap] feel sort of funny publishing this after you all were so kind when I announced my blogoversary on Facebook! I guess this the long version. 🙂 In late December of 2005, just 10 years {and a lifetime} ago, my sweet friend from college, Gracie, asked what turned out to be a fateful question: Why don’t you start a blog? I remember pausing to think about it. I had been an active blog reader since blogging was first born — from Continue Reading…
January 1, 2016
Home Education, Other Thoughts
Seven Quick Takes on Selling Goats, Tortoise Gardens, Phonics Curriculum, and More!

:: 1 :: So, I’m selling my goat herd at the end of the month. This has been a very hard decision for me, but overall I think it is for the best. As we have been heading toward high school {next year is 8th grade for our oldest}, it’s become very evident that there are some things we want to add — that possibly we need to add — to our life. And no matter how I looked at Continue Reading…
May 8, 2015
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Seven Quick Takes on 60th Anniversaries, Free Audio, New Couches, and More!

:: 1 :: Saturday was my grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary party. It was so much fun, looking at old photos of them from across the years. My father made the astounding revelation that he had known them for 45 years, and been their son-in-law for 43 of them, and my mind almost couldn’t fathom that he met them when they were my age. It reminded me of that moment in Understood Betsy when Betsy realizes the desks in her schoolroom Continue Reading…
May 1, 2015