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We drove out to Longview yesterday to explore 80 A

We drove out to Longview yesterday to explore 80 Acres Market and came away SO IMPRESSED! What a gorgeous place and a lovely community gathering place! It was fun for the whole family. The kids loved the face painting, bounce house, paper crafts, and bottled water — all free. The adults enjoyed the live music, complementary coffee, and unique shopping experience (the entire inventory is switched out every two weeks). Food trucks are also available on the premises along with ample outdoor seating, some playground equipment for the kids, and even a dirt pile open for digging and exploring. The market is open every other weekend. They’ll be closed on Easter Sunday, but open the day before for everything listed above plus a giant egg hunt. So… fun time to check it out for yourself! #flandersfamilytravels #fieldtrip

Every spring, I pull out my little Easter journal,

I love leaving all our windows open to let the lig

I love leaving all our windows open to let the light shine through, but the glare off this white wall blinds me whenever I’m washing dishes at our kitchen sink. So I decided to paint a mural to help absorb some of the reflected light! Also, I figured it would be easier to keep painted shrubs and flowers alive than the real thing since we don’t have a sprinkler system and I sometimes forget to water the real stuff until it is limp and wilted — or worse! #flandersfamilyhome #wallart #outdoorproject

I finished listening to David Epstein’s RANGE ye

I finished listening to David Epstein’s RANGE yesterday. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What an inspiring book! I told my husband, who’d read it years before, that this book really made me grateful we had chosen to homeschool. “That’s exactly what I thought when I finished reading it!” he responded. It’s not that one CAN’T learn to think broadly in a traditional classroom — Doug and I both attended public schools as children, earned specialized degrees in college and graduate/medical school, yet still managed to retain a healthy curiosity about a wide range of topics. It is just that our modern educational system favors benchmarked learning and early specialization, often at the expense of making interdisciplinary connections or pursuing tangential topics. Each teacher piles on homework in a given subject, seldom pausing to point out how the material being presented in one course relates to anything the student is learning in other classes. Modern classrooms stress outcomes, grades, results. They have little time or patience for the kind of “mental meandering” and experimentation that is vital to innovation. Happily for us, that hasn’t been the case with homeschooling. We teach our kids the basics, expose them to a broad range of books, people, places, and ideas, let them delve deeply into investigating topics or developing skills that interest them, and discuss with genuine enthusiasm and appreciation all the things each of us are learning — collectively and individually — and how it all fits into the framework of our Christian worldview. As parents, I don’t think Doug and I deliberately set out to create that kind of environment for our kids when we first started teaching them at home, but by God’s grace, that is what our homeschooling experiment evolved into. And books like Range make me extra thankful that is the case. ❤️ #flandersfamilyreads #bookstagram #homeschooling #lifestyleoflearning #recommendedreading

Today was “Disney Day” at our homeschool co-op

Today was “Disney Day” at our homeschool co-op. Abby dressed as my all-time favorite Disney character, Belle. She was smart, loyal, compassionate, and loved to read. 📕 Gabriel dressed as Pongo. This tenacious Dalmatian was courageous, resourceful, and made an excellent father. 🐶 And I dressed as a Public Service Announcement: Parents, make sure you watch your children around Disney as vigilantly as you’d guard your puppies around Cruella de Vil!🚧 #homeschoolcoopthemedays

I was privileged to get a sneak peak at Hard Is No

I was privileged to get a sneak peak at Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad, chapter by chapter, as it was being written And I absolutely loved it! Now (at last!) it’s officially available for preorder. I ordered mine yesterday and can hardly wait to read the print copy, complete with gorgeous artwork from @paintandprose and the unique perspective Dad shares the end of each chapter! I’m overjoyed to think how incredibly blessed families across the globe are going to be when they read the timely, encouraging, biblically-grounded message presented in this beautifully written book. ❤️ #flandersfamilyreads #bookstagram #hardisnotthesamethingasbad

On this date in 1987, my husband officially asked

On this date in 1987, my husband officially asked me to marry him before slipping onto my finger an antique diamond ring his grandmother had taken off her own hand two days earlier and hand sized to fit mine. He proposed on bended knee in the living room of his grandparents’ house in Corpus Christi, with Nanny and Poppie looking on, offering constructive criticism, and making him back up and re-do all the parts that THEY found unsatisfactory the first time. 😂😂🤣 The truth is, Doug and I had already been planning our wedding — and, even more importantly, discussing our hopes, dreams, and expectations for the life we’d share together after the ceremony — for months before his grandparents insisted he formalize things with an official proposal of marriage and a gorgeous ring I’ve worn proudly ever since. 💍 Either way — with or without a ring or a formal proposal — my answer to the question was a resounding “YES!” Agreeing to marry Doug remains one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life. ❤️❤️❤️ #officiallyengaged #happilyeverafter

I recently finished Jinger Duggar Vuolo’s Becomi

I recently finished Jinger Duggar Vuolo’s Becoming Free Indeed. As relieved as I was to hear Jinger reaffirm her strong faith in God — as well as her love and respect for her parents— I still had a LOT of thoughts regarding the “disentangling” journey she shares. You can swipe left to read a few of those thoughts. Or visit my Loving Life at Home blog (link in bio) for the unabridged version! 😂 #flandersfamilyreads #becomingfreeindeed #bookstagram #biblebeliever

Pics from our all-green-cuisine leprechaun lunch — a long standing tradition in the Flanders family! #flandersfamilyfun #familytraditions #greenfood #leprechaunlunch

Another family tradition: Racing to see who can fi

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