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Preschool Homeschool

This is what “preschool” homeschool looks like here, along with books and folksongs and outdoor play. (She’s having a popcorn snack with...

On education and setting the table.

We are about ready for #StephensAcademy 2020-2021. Even though we’ve done this for over a decade now, every year is a bit different with...

Beware the Instagram Homeschool

I picked flowers with my 3 year old today. We practiced calling them daisies. She tromped around the top of a ski mountain in Wisconsin...

23 Billion Miles

Today is my 40th birthday. Cue the, “No way! You only look 29!” comments! Just kidding. Mostly. 🤣 But really, I’ve officially made this...

One Mind.

Last night I got more direct with my Bible study than I often do. Sometimes as a teacher, it’s hard to speak on things that we know are...

2020 Homeschool Peptalk

It’s time for a homeschool peptalk. I see you, feeling all the stress of 2020 somehow piling up and making planning for the new school...

‘Twil Soon Be Past

I got my black dress out of the closet this morning. We have a gathering today, a time to mark the homegoing of a beloved man in our...

The righteous will live (and school) by faith

Planning has begun for Stephens Academy 2020-2021. With the next year looking so uncertain in classrooms around the country, I know many...

Choose to rejoice. On a Monday in 2020.

It’s Monday. We are still in 2020. The news is full of coronavirus spikes and protests and politics and madness. Pause with me for a...

Sincere and Blameless

“In Ancient Rome fine pottery was relatively thin and fragile and often developed cracks while being fired. Unscrupulous shops would fill...