A New Introduction

I’ve enjoying my time here back on the blog. I’m trying to strike a balance between getting on here enough and writing too much. The writer in me would like to write/blog every day. But of course there are other things in life…wifing (I believe that’s my own made up word) mothering, homeschooling, laundry, family, friends, cooking, and all those other things.

In beginning to blog again, I’ve looked back at posts from years past. I started blogging in 2012 when my youngest was just two years old. I wondered whether I should keep those posts. They are so outdated. But it’s sort of fun to go back and see how I started. So I think I’ve decided to keep them but I also thought it may be fun to go back and ‘revise’ some of them.

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Back on March 17th 2012, I titled my third post “Introduction”. It was 4 very short paragraphs. If you want to see, here’s the link. But I thought it might be fun to just sort of ‘redo’ that introduction, keeping it short but a bit more detailed than the first (and updated of course).

“Introduction”

Well, I’m not as new here as I was then but sometimes I still have no idea where to begin. Yet sometimes I have a million ideas and just don’t know which ones to go with. But for today’s post, I’ll just stick with those two very important things to me that I wrote about in the 2012 introduction: my faith (Orthodox Christianity) and homeschooling.

I converted to Orthodoxy approximately 17 years ago. It is still by far the most important decision I have ever made in my life. Orthodoxy has changed my life, all for the better. I thank my husband (a cradle Orthodox man) for leading me there though I certainly did make that challenge difficult. I have always been a Christian, but I was born into a Roman Catholic family and followed that faith from a fairly young age to only a year or two before converting to Orthodoxy. I was married in the Orthodox church – but only, I will admit, out of convenience at the time as we rushed the ‘engagement’ and decided to get married in ’92 instead of ’93 before my husband started medical school in Iowa. Looking back I am lavished in the gratitude that things fell into place that way.

Homeschooling fell into place too. I taught for about 12 years before deciding on an ‘early retirement’ as the ‘politics’ or ‘policies’ of education were wearing me down and I was saddened that I felt I spent more time planning for substitutes and meetings than I did in my special education classroom with the kids I adored. But there I was at home when things in the public schools were not working well for my own kids and I was able to take them home and introduce them to new ways of learning. New ways of learning have followed us through the years to the point that now with my third child we are following more of an ‘unschooling’ approach. I still wish I had homeschooled from the beginning. Now I wish I had had a more relaxed approach to it from the beginning as well.

Well, there it is- a revision of the first brief introduction from 2012. I’d love if you would share a little introduction of yourself below!