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Jessica Stumpf

living the simple life, one messy day at a time

Category: Relaxed Homeschool

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018

5 Ways to Make School Days More Fun

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Getting a Chance to Play

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When Your Kids Need Help With Reading

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September 13, 2017November 2, 2017

When Homeschool Teaches Me a Lesson

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We’ve paid off over $8500 in debt this summer. 🙌🏻 My intention every year is to work towards being completely debt free, but every year something happens. Last year it was a baby that required a bigger vehicle (with 5 kids and a 12 passenger van that shouldn’t happen again 🤣). This year the flood ruined the plans I had for our money, but God is faithful. He’s been helping me with my own small business. And Bryan has a new contract at work, after only a year of negotiations 🤪, with a raise and a years worth of backpay. He’s working more hours than ever, with a few months of busy time ahead 🙏🏻, and we are staring down the last remaining bills we have to save for this year. I’m looking at you $2000 flood insurance and $900 homeowners insurance bills due in November 🙄. I’m thankful that God always provides. And while we may not be rich by any means, we are certainly blessed. ❤️ #payingoffdebt #daveramseybabysteps #blessedmama

When we were at a local summer festival lately, the kids wanted to buy some wooden toys. I would have loved to drop $50 right then and there to buy each kid a cute gift, but our budget just doesn’t allow that right now. And I want my kids to enjoy the process of making things, not just accumulating more items. Learning a skill that they are good at. Eventually using that skill to create items they appreciate much more. Maurice was frustrated at me for not buying at the moment, but this week he whittled and made his own pick ax/crossbow. ❤️ #learningoutside #outdoorclassroom #homeschooling #wildandfreechildren #frugalliving

This sweet little chick had a rough time here on earth. 😔 The mother hen, who sat almost to hatching, was so upset by being moved to our nursery coop that she abandoned all thoughts of caring for her chick and would peck at it if I tried to reunite them. My other broody hen, whose nest I keep breaking up, wouldn’t switch over to motherhood either, and would peck violently when she discovered it under her. It was awful for me to watch mothers reject this baby. 😭 So, we tried our best, we snuggled her and kept her warm and she had a lot of kids that loved her while she was here. ❤️ #chickens #babychicks #wildandfreechildren

Here’s our science lesson for the day. 😊 The hen that just HAD to sit, has abandoned her egg. So here we go with a chick hatching soon in our kitchen. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #homeschooling #homesteading #hatchingchicks

Ok, this may be nerdy, but I’ve been trying to be a better steward of my time with my children and in my home. I get up around 4:30 and by, say 7:30, I’m hopefully getting done with my day. So in 15 hours, what do I need to be focusing my time on? I’ve gotten even nerdier and tried to determine my top five activities (family time, homeschooling, making food, cleaning, outside time) so I can see how I should be spending my day. I’m totally spontaneous and schedules never work for me, so I just need a flexible plan/reminder not to spend 2 hours reorganizing my closet when I haven’t given one thought to what we’re having for supper. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ #homeschooling #homeschoolplanning #noscreentimewhiledadsatwork

I was just admiring his little self as he grabbed a quick nursing break, and he fell asleep. We’re in such a different stage now with him crawling everywhere and pulling up and getting into eeeeverything. 😅#luckilywereminimalistsnow😂 #almost8months #thankfulmama #motherhood #holdthemclose #letthemsleep #clothdiaperbaby #breastfedbaby

This little heart cloud was obviously a love note from Bryan for that peach cobbler I made him last night. 🥰 We’re celebrating Bryan’s birthday this week, so we headed to Greenville after church yesterday, for the annual tractor show. It’s such a neat way to learn about some of our agricultural history. Bryan had gotten the kids new notebooks and had them draw and write about what they saw on our way home. (What a hot homeschool dad! 😘) One of my favorites was the train ride and the belt-driven rock crusher (which of course I told Bryan he needed at the quarry 😉). #tinystumpffarms #sunrise

My gardens are wild and messy, but fruitful. And I’m thankful for that. 🌿🌿🌿 #homegrownfood #tinystumpffarms

I love how excited they are by little things. We’ve had this lava lamp in our basement for years. Now that we’re going through everything and only keeping what we love, we have space for more moments like this. #homeschool #homeschoolroom #delightdirectedlearning

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