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Ann McCool is a wife, mother, Jesus lover and California native. She is passionate about nurturing all the good things of life through deep faith, self-care and a balanced portion of sacrificial living. You can usually find her armed with her planner, essential oils and a jar of green tea as she homeschools her six kids or roams around the Western New York countryside in their gigantic van.


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Some before and after fun for this little shelf :)
This shelf was pretty beat up when it came from my in-laws garage to our apartment 10 years ago! In the meantime, a number of new pressboard shelves have come and died and been tossed. This little guy is so solid! From a point in furniture history when things were made out of real wood. It's been a book shelf, record storage, a pantry shelf, a laundry room shelf, and my husband has guarded it from a coat of paint for years. We compromised here, I put tile stickers on the back and he keeps the wood :) .
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Drawing time! 
Homeschooling these days looks mostly like this: everyone gets turns on the computers doing online classes. The rest of the day the kids do what they want! Which includes reading copious amounts of books, making elaborate houses for toys, forts, and so much random stuff. 
A few weeks ago most of them were involved in turning half the school room into a jungle scene. It started with one child wanting to try out building a suspension bridge with k'nex. Bridges need jungles, obvi lol. And this scene started because someone was asking me about planets. He ended up making all the planets and we made a hanging diarama. I love following their insatable curiosity! 
I do need to mention we're screen free on school days other than online school. And if they tell me they're bored they get to do chores 👊 Also, there's a ton of power rangers, cars, legos and barbies going on. Those are important too, and often sprinkled with these moments that look less like play and more like traditional school ❤
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Fun day at the Strong!
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