I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I really love watching our girls together. Today they fell asleep at naptime with their arms literally wrapped around each other, and I just kept thinking about how if anyone else was “in” their personal space that way, they’d never be able to go to sleep. And how amazing it is that a…
Year: 2010
Beginning Homeschooling?
So I know learning is a life-long process, and good mommies teach their children 24/7, right? But I had been kind of tentatively planning to do “formal school” when E is three, which is still a day very, very far away. I’ve been rethinking, partly because I’ve been reading a great deal about homeschooling in a large family (i.e. teaching…
Early Marriage and Maturity
Something that has been much on my mind lately–and much on the blogosphere for the past year or so–is early marriage. Seth and I got married when I was twenty. Most of the rest of the kids I went to church with that were my age got married years after I did. At the time I thought it was more…