The Wild Card We Call Homeschooling This fall Laura was invited to speak at the first Orthodoxy and Education Conference, hosted by the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture. Here, on our substack, we are publishing her talk in 4 parts (to allow for time for busy moms to read and reflect), but … Read more

Patterns for Life Chapter 10 audiobook No matter how quickly the day turns sour, even and especially when it is our fault, we always have the option of responding with repentance. What repentance looks like will vary, but because we are at home, we have the freedom to call a time-out. We can stop what … Read more

Meet Maggie Annie We’re starting something new here at Patterns for Life: every month we will be highlighting an individual homeschool mom through a written interview in order to encourage and inspire our readers. We know it can be helpful to meet — whether virtually or in real life — other mothers who are in … Read more

Inscribing the cross even onto our gender callings Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good with a cup of coffee, then you get your refreshed self … Read more

The Wild Card We Call Homeschooling This fall Laura was invited to speak at the first Orthodoxy and Education Conference, hosted by the St. Basil Center for Orthodox Thought and Culture. Here, on our substack, we are publishing her talk in 4 parts (to allow for time for busy moms to read and reflect), but … Read more

Patterns for Life audiobook Chapter 9 To insist that other human beings accept only our own ideas and premises is to be blinded by narcissism, unable to see the other as a real person, unable to form relationship with them. It makes us unable to love them. If our children graduate high school with As … Read more

Meet Katie We’re starting something new here at Patterns for Life: every month we will be highlighting an individual homeschool mom through a written interview in order to encourage and inspire our readers. We know it can be helpful to meet — whether virtually or in real life — other mothers who are in the … Read more

In which we start to tease out strands of Priest, Prophet, and King, but don’t quite manage to finish Welcome to The Diner! It’s season two and you won’t want to miss out. Come sit at the counter of our virtual diner and let us serve you a slice of mental pie! It’ll go good … Read more

Christ is born glorify Him. Christ is come from heaven receive Him. Christ is on earth be ye lifted up. Sing to the Lord all the earth and praise Him with joy, all people. For He has been glorified. ~From the First Nativity Canon, Ode 1 May your Christmas season be blessed and full of … Read more

Why we chose to name our book Patterns for Life Co-writing a book has its challenges, some of which have the potential to be so catastrophic as to shut down the project entirely. We were fortunate enough in our writing to avoid any serious setbacks, but there was one sticking point that took time to … Read more