If you had told me this time last year that I would be a "blogger," I would have scoffed. Because, you see, I thought blogging was necessarily all about writing. And I Don't Like Writing. At all. It stresses me out.
Whoops. Let me back up and introduce myself. (I'm afraid I'm going to be a little wordier than usual, as y'all may not know me. I promise, it won't happen again!) I'm Susan: a 40-something Wife/Mom living in a testosterone-filled home with my husband, three sons, and dog. And I'm a HUGE photography afficionado. I had an epiphany one day last November: that I could document our family life by blogging with photos, NOT words, and thus I began Short on Words.
Homeschooling is a quite-large ingredient of our lifestyle. Here's a sampling of how it plays out in our family and how I document it on my blog ...
Oh yeah - my guys pal around with Einstein...
Books are a really BIG DEAL around here...
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Oh yeah. Sunsets count as art. They're my favorite kind. Art by the Master Artist.
Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
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Too bad I couldn't find a photo of my youngest son throwing a tantrum. He's the Drama King in our home.
Yup, they like to read the nutrition information on the back of the box...
Life. Faith. Photography. Schooling. Blogging. This is the year, for me, that it all converged.
And as a result of this whole "Blog Journey", I've come away from the experience with some unexpected surprises. My photography has improved ten-fold from all the practice, practice, practice. My "documentation" of our family's year is exponentially more detailed than it's ever been. (Can I confess something? As a homeschooling mom, I've had more than an occasional guilty moment where I've wondered whether our
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I loved this!
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