Moments

Sisters & Socialization

Julie / August 15, 2010

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…

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Homeschooling

Beginning Homeschooling?

Julie / August 13, 2010

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…

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Marriage

Early Marriage and Maturity

Julie / August 12, 2010

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…

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