Meet the fellow homeschooling moms who add their stories, wisdom, and ideas here. You can read about Jamie, the main voice on the blog, here.
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Kris Bales enjoys reading, photography, and blogging about life with her three weird, unsocialized homeschoolers. She has even learned to love running and biking in her quest to overcome obesity. She blogs about her progress at Eclipsed. |
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Jena believes children need freedom to explore and be themselves to grow up to be emotionally healthy, successful adults. As she works on her masters degree in education, she blogs about her three kids (all graduated now!), her education philosophy, and how to be a great parent/teacher at Yarns of the Heart. |
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Lora Lynn Fanning chronicles life as a homeschool mom, twin mom, adoptive mom, and generally busy mom of six (soon to be seven!) young children over at Vita Familiae. |
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Jessica Fisher earned a BA in French Literature and a Masters of Education before teaching high school level English, French and Yearbook. Now a busy mom to six children, she shares tips and tricks for handling the parenting gig “with a good attitude” on Life as MOM while the foodie side of her develops frugal recipes at Good Cheap Eats. |
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Amida Lee is a crafter at heart who loves to make stuff, a homebody who loves to venture outdoors, and above all else, a dedicated mom with the goal of raising lifelong learners. She used to stress about state standards and test scores but has since come to her senses and enjoys blogging about her family’s journey into unschooling. |
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Kari Patterson and her family are unschooling, church-planting, smoothie-drinking, frugal-living weirdos from Oregon. As a 2nd generation homeschooler, Kari enthusiastically espouses the same delight-directed method her mother did in the 80s. She celebrates life’s messy glory over at Sacred Mundane. |
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Rachel Wolf woke up recently and realized that she’s living the life she has always wanted. Her days are spent with and two spunky unschoolers, running LuSa Organics (her small business), and hanging the laundry out on the line. Rachel writes about her homeschooling, homemaking, and non-violent parenting path on her blog Clean. |













