February 8th 2008 09:45 am
Crash course
Well, it seems like I’ve had some new visitors around here lately, so I thought I’d give a quick overview. You could also read the “Aboot me” page and the “best of” page, but if you’re like me, then you’re all about the laziest way possible. So I’ll help enable that, okay? 
- our family has been homeschooling since.. uh.. lemme think… March of ‘94? Long enough anyway.
- I have four kids + 1. Addison is the oldest and the only boy, and he’s married to Kaytlyn. (she’s the extra. 
) Then I have three girls - Sarah, Meaghan and Emma. Emma is 7 and doted upon.
- Ron the hubby is a programmer. We met in college while taking a computer programming course. Addison now takes the same course, where he met Kaytlyn. See a theme here?
- we really like computers and use them heavily
- we also just moved back to the country, back to the land. We compost and recycle.
- I had a bit of a writing phase a couple years ago. I go thru phases. A lot.
- I started homeschooljournal.net - a free blogging site for homeschoolers based on the software behind wordpress.com. the software is a semi-fork of Wordpress called WordpressMU.
- I write a tutorial blog for WPMU. It’s kinda technical.
- I’ve been working from home the past couple of months, drumming up my own business. I help people set up sites like HSJ and/or troubleshoot the sites for them, and even (with Ron’s assistance) write plugins.
- I used to own a craft store, used to sew all the kid’s clothing , used to grow most of our food. We’re getting back to some of that.
- it’s been almost a year since I had a hysterectomy to get rid of stage 0 cervical cancer.
- I breastfed all my kids for varying lengths of time, from as little as two weeks to as long as 3 years 3 months. We co-slept and did cloth diapers too. But not exclusively all the time.
- in our spare time Ron and I like to renovate old houses.
- my extended family reads my blog.
- I am blonde at heart.
After a couple years of waiting for things to work out and get where we are now (we moved last year), there’s some things afoot in the background that aren’t ready to be fully publicized yet. So stick around - it’s gonna be exciting.
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4 Responses to “Crash course”
JoVE on 08 Feb 2008 at 12:23 pm #
You know what. I knew some of that but it is good to have a recap. And I’m excited to hear about developing your business. It sounds like a great idea.
I’m not convinced you renovate houses in your spare time. I think this is one of the fun things you like to do as a family activity.
beth on 08 Feb 2008 at 11:37 pm #
Great crash course, I agree, nice recap.
I’m so curious to hear about this “exciting” development(s)?!
Andrea on 10 Feb 2008 at 9:14 pm #
I kind of forget where I’ve been and what I’ve done, and on top of that, I forget who I have and haven’t told what I’m doing now. So a list is good for me too.
BJ on 13 Feb 2008 at 8:05 am #
I haven’t been blog reading for a while - I’m on my old computer and it’s so slow I just give up. Anyway, my curiousity is certainly piqued. Because with you guys, exciting is usually something to write home about, as opposed to most of us, who say something is exciting, but it’s really just dumb. ha, ha…Nice new look.