Thank you for the warm welcome into your homes via the interview I did regarding homeschooling. I was thinking of you all while baking a little snack cake (banana-tahini-hazelnut) and heating the kettle for tea (midday, the loveliest Assam black tea). I am hoping and praying that something I shared was an encouragement to you.

Today my homeschooling looks like sending out two children in the morning for music lessons while I teach Bible to the three at home and let them play. Currently, l am busy in the kitchen, keeping the woodstove going, cleaning out the fridge, and getting a stew started for supper.

After lunch (and cake), l'll be able to grab a couple of kids at a time to go over their schoolwork while supper bubbles away. In that ebb and flow, laundry will get put away and l'll hopefully get to making the Purple Dragon kimchi l've read so much about.

After supper, the internet is turned off (no screens!) and we have our "one room cabin" time, where we can all do whatever as long as we're in the main living areas. Puzzles, games, crafts, sewing, reading (or aloud), radio drama, etc. This is a time when the littles are in bed and it's safe to bring out hot glue guns, felting needles, and board games with a zillion pieces. Sometimes there is popcorn, or hot cocoa.

We just implemented this a few weeks ago, and have to say it is REALLY nice. It's just another way of trying to stay present and intentional with these babies who are growing up So Fast (iykyk).

I'm so blessed and grateful to be home ❤️

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