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Pretty Princesses
While we’re selling soap in Pennsylvania, Gretchen is covering the homestead. She’s shipping all the orders, answering the phone, feeding the goats (well, her husband may be doing that), taking care of the kitty cats, and basically being me for the week. Gretchen has two children – her son is in school, but her daughter…
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Tangled, the Movie
We’ve had a lot of family staying with us for the Thanksgiving weekend. All together there are 17 cousins staying here. We took everybody into town today to watch Disney’s Tangled in 3D. The children were all so excited about the movie (and their glasses): I had fun getting them to pose while Jim took…
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Breakfasts
I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m not an “early morning” mom or a big breakfast eater. So the children usually take care of getting breakfast ready. A lot of times it’s just cereal or oatmeal. But more often it’s eggs or pancakes or waffles. Here was a breakfast where the children really outdid themselves.…
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Knitting
Most people who see us at soap shows know that the older three children knit cotton washcloths to sell. They’ve gotten really good at it. The younger children have been learning, so now Greyden, Fletcher, and Indigo can knit washcloths too. We were having a really hard time keeping up with paying the children when…
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The Best Part of Homeschooling
The best part of homeschooling (to me) is that my children have time to explore their imaginations and be creative: I personally feel this is so much more important in their early years than sitting at a desk and learning to repeat facts. Creativity leads to problem solving and problem solvers will always be needed.…
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An Easy Day
It’s Saturday and beautiful outside. The children did the internet orders and then they all disappeared. LOL I can’t say I blame them. I’m blogging and then I’m probably going to join them. After all, I may go outside and discover them doing something like this: I’ve already gotten my soap work done. The orders…
