5 Steps to Starting a Classical Learning Community

As traumatic and dramatic as our exit from CC was last spring, we have landed on our feet. We took all the things we loved about CC and tweaked the ones we didn’t and started our own community. The even better thing? You can, too. Here’s how: Gather a like-minded friend or two. This part will […]

For the Love of Jen Hatmaker

This post is part of Jen Hatmaker’s “For the Love” Blog Tour which I am delighted to be a part of along with many other inspiring bloggers.  To learn more and join us, CLICK HERE. Despite my best intentions, I am being sucked into the Jen Hatmaker vortex. My first intersection with Jen’s writing was through […]

I can’t even

[ahy] [kant] [ee-vuh n]: The phrase you use just before going completely and utterly speechless. When your child has to have a doctor’s note at school to have free access to water (ya know, the thing that is second only to oxygen when it comes to your actual survival, let alone learning). I can’t even. […]

What I Learned from Adopting Teenagers

I wanted to publish a post like this on Monday (Airplane Day for John and Kayla), but I was had been waiting all night in the ER for psych bed for one of the other kids. That’s a story for another post, but you can keep our family in your prayers. This has been a long […]

Love Through the Eyes of an Adoptive Mom

  1 Corinthians 1If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. (MSG) “Creaking of a rusty gate” –annoying, abrasive, rubbed the wrong way. Never take your paradigm for granted. We have 3 children who entered our family at the ages of 11, […]

A Classical, Non-Leveled Spelling Curriculum

We started our classical education journey at a small, local, private school. When we started homeschooling, we joined a local Classical Conversations community, and now we’ll be starting a new classical community, using memory work from Claritas Classical Academy, improving on what we’ve learned over the past 4 years. As my understanding of classical methodology has […]

Foto Flashback Friday

If I was more on top of life, I would have posted this closer to July 4th. Oh well. Last spring, we were welcoming a friend home from Ethiopia and decided to swing by the Lincoln Memorial. Grace has an obsession with Abe, so this trip was mostly for her. It’s not every day you […]