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Preschool – Letter I

Are you ready for a sappy post about why I love homeschooling so much? If not, you might want to skip the next few paragraphs. We started the Letter I, and then two days later I went into labor. Needless to say, homeschooling got put onto the back burner. We spent the next week enjoying the new baby and learning our new normal. We snuggled. We connected. We cried. We played. We fought. New babies bring on so many new emotions… for everyone in the family! While we did take some time to regroup as a family, we also jumped

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Preschool – Letter H

A little over 3 weeks ago, our sweet little new addition joined the family. She has just been the sweetest baby and such a JOY (as her middle name indicates!). We’ve toned down our schooling a bit, but we are still plugging away through the Peaceful Preschool. I would be napping right now, but nap times just didn’t line up today for all three kids. Instead, I thought I’d catch up on a bit of blogging. The past few weeks we’ve been trying to figure out our new routine… mostly we are just reading books and doing a couple of

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Preschool – Letter G

“Good and upright is the Lord.” He sure is! This week found us back into a little more of a routine again. We are all starting to feel back to our normal selves (finally!). The weather has the promise of spring in the air, albeit snow is in the forecast for a couple days from now (#PureMichigan). We have been able to spend some time outside, which is certainly refreshing to the body as well as the soul! We are counting down the days until the new baby arrives. God is good. With spring in the air, we spent the

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Anticipating change

I have so many thoughts swirling through my head right now. Seriously, I’ve started 3 different blog posts on 3 TOTALLY different topics. I seem to start one and then find my mind landing on another path and soon I’m following that rabbit trail. Maybe it’s the pregnancy. Maybe it’s God’s leading. Maybe it’s just my way of getting what’s in my heart onto paper… a way of hashing out my thoughts. But here I am less than two weeks from delivering our third baby. I feel like I should be preparing. I should be making meals, packing a hospital

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Preschool – Letter F

I had great intentions for the Letter F, but alas, life just happens sometimes. After two weeks of traveling, sickness and being super pregnant, we just decided to move on… though we did squeeze in several cute activities here and there and read our “F” books over and over again! Our theme for the week was F-ish, and since I’ve been promising my son a new fish since last spring when his beloved fish died, this was a perfect opportunity to follow through with my promise! I told the kids that we were going on a surprise adventure and loaded

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Egg-citing DIY for Easter

It’s perfectly imperfect. Could I have dyed the eggs more evenly? Yes. Does it bother me that the eggs are not evenly distributed across the branches? Yes. Would I have it any other way? No. I can’t help but smile as I look up at my mantle and think of the tiny hands that helped me make this. I’ll be honest, this is not a craft that you throw at your preschooler to keep them occupied. This is something that you make WITH your kids. It’s a memory maker… the best kind of craft there is! I bought 18 white

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