New Chapter of Our Journey

 

We've taken a year long break to grow our family, learn new skills, and explore new terrain. Since moving across the street from our home state to a new state, we've stayed fairy local to Blackstone Valley. We've found tiny trails, built garden beds, gotten into poison ivy, build our own furniture, enjoyed a our wood burning stove, and search for professional support for speech development. Our homeschooling became more established as we found our flow in going to  library events, playgrounds, bike paths, meet ups, unstructured play, and interest based activities. My favorite part is to see how many crafts we can engineer given a new interest. There was the phase of the airplanes, trains, rockets, dinosaurs, bugs, butterflies and moths, plants and flowers, sandbox and mud. Nature has always been there for our wild learning. We are now ready for our new chapter in growing within a community.

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