Last school year Taryn struggled with creative writing.  Don’t you know the very day our school year ended she cut up a bunch of blank pages and wrote her first chapter book.  Privately, I wanted to throw my arms up in the air and say “Really?!”  She wasn’t loving the method during the year and once she was free to just do her thing, she loved it.  And thrived.  Instead of throwing up my arms I was just happy to see her figuring it out her way.  And she has multiple, wonderful, books she wrote on her break.  We are encouraging her to publish the first one on blurb (and maybe even […]

We rounded out our farm themed homeschool week with a (very cold but fun) trip to Pioneer Farms today. Jonah’s Texas mittens (aka – socks) are cracking me up.

By the fire.