Last year as Owen entered into kindergarten I knew I was in for something totally new. I tried my best to prepare myself (and Him) for our academic year ahead. As the year progressed I noticed there were a few areas that Owen excelled in and a few he was having a hard time grasping. One of those areas was the names of numbers.

I was barely 21 years old, a newlywed, living in a new state, and pregnant for the first time. I can remember so many times feeling like a little girl playing dress up in my Moms high heels and jewelry, like I wasn’t really an adult, I was just pretending to be one. That’s right when we received some of the best advice for new parents we’ve ever heard. 10 years later, it’s still true.

I’m a homeschool dad, launching into our 6th year teaching our kids from home while also working from home. As such, I have a mixed bag of feelings and experiences with homeschooling and wanted to share, from a dad’s perspective, what I love about being a homeschooling dad in the new millennium.

Over the years we’ve renovated 2 houses and decorated and re decorated dozens of rooms hundreds of times. Here are my go-to room essentials to instantly make any room feel more livable, warm and welcoming.

This has been a crazy year for our little Family Band - there have been 2 major life-altering surprises that have changed us: feeling called to start the adoption process and finding out we were pregnant mid-adoption and then still feeling led to finish the adoption after new baby Arthur was born.