Tag: middle school

• Sycamore Trees

  

  Dear Hallie, I feel sorry for everyone who has never discovered the intense magic and utter delight of a soak in a hot bath. There is nothing for me this side of heaven that quite compares to the sensation that spreads as I sink down and let the water engulf me.  And then even after…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 7, 2021

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Hallie

  beauty, childhood, Children, covid19, Faith, grace, growing up, joy, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, middle school, motherhood, Parenting, teenagers

• Covid-19 Home School

  

  Dear Lacey, Every August for the last 12 years in anticipation of a new school year, the same conversations fill our home, the same shopping trips are taken, and the same prayers are prayed.   Conversations that beg the questions- what if there are no friends in our classes, who will we sit with at lunch,…

  Laura Spaulding

  March 22, 2020

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning Differences and Disabilities, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Lacey

  anxiety, beauty, Children, corona, covid19, Education, Faith, Family, grace, high school, homeschool, homeschooling, invisible illness, joy, junior year, learning differences, Learning Disabilities, middle school, Parenting, social distancing, top ten

• Teenagers!?

  

  Dear Lacey, About six weeks ago you turned nine years old!  Almost double digits!  For months I had been planning to sit down on the 30th of September and write you a lovely birthday letter about how precious and unique God has made you.  I even started it at one point but never got past…

  Laura Spaulding

  November 29, 2019

  Family and Faith, Individualized Parenting and Education, Learning and Healing Through Nature and Creation, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting through Grief, Trauma, and Loss, Words to Lacey

  butterflys, Children, Family, grace, growing up, high school, middle school, motherhood, Parenting, puberty, siblings, sisters, teenagers, time