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Hello all,
I've been soaking up the great information and ideas here for a few months and thought I better finally introduce myself.
This is my 2nd yr homeschooling and I have an 8 yr old son, 5 yr old daughter, and "terrible two" year old son (OK, he's an angel but in disguise I suppose  ).
We are in WA now (and LOVE it) but will be moving back to Iowa (our home state) in the next 6-8mos for a job assignment.
I've really been bumping around these last 2 yrs trying to find our "groove" without much luck. My son is bright overall (aren't all our kids!) but struggles with reading. I really struggle myself if this is my fault somehow in how I taught him or if it's just where he's at.
Anyway, I find myself visiting this board more and more and realized that must be a clue and I should join in. I'm reading Elizabeth Foss's book right now and found some very profound comments that I think will change my path soon 
Looking forward to chatting more!
Peace
Ann
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Hello and welcome Ann - I'm an Anne too - I love your online name! 
This is a lovely place to learn and grow, in all ways. 
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Hey Emily!!!
Great to see you here!
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Emily,
To add personal information to your profile, click on the settings button on the top right side of the forum. From there, you can edit your profile information.
I think you have to have a certain number of posts before you can add an avatar or a signature line...moderators, please correct me if I'm wrong!!
Everyone, please give Emily a warm welcome--she's one of my closest friends and my oldest daughter's godmother! 
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Hi, I'm Shaun.
I'm mom to Violet (8) and Victoria (almost 4) -- the girls have screen names, but mine's the real thing. I've been homeschooling my oldest for just over a year, and am looking forward to doing some homeschooling with my youngest soon too! I also work from home part time in publishing.
My oldest and I were baptised Easter 2002, and my youngest in 2003. My husband is a skeptic (born Catholic). So as a convert in a "mixed marriage" I often need a little extra boost to make faith a central focus of our family life and schooling.
In my "spare time" I like scrapbooking, reading, knitting (or at least reading about it), writing, blogging, cooking (or at least reading about it).
I think I'm one of those rare creatures on the Internet -- a Moderate Catholic! (Seems like too many people are eager to condemn their brothers and sisters in the faith these days.) I'm grateful to Our Mother, Mary, for bringing me to her Son and the Church--she was interceding for me before I was even baptised!
I have enjoyed some of the people I have "met" through blogging about homeschool, and I look forward to meeting and learning from more Catholic homeschoolers!
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Welcome, Shaun, and everyone else new!
You will love it here!
Blessings,
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Hello!!!
I'm new here, and very excited to join in. I've lurked for a while, and finally decided to jump in.
I'm Emily, mother to 3 children--a 7 (almost 8) year old dd, and 4 (almost 5) year old twin boys. We've always homeschooled, and I'm always looking for new ideas.
I look forward to getting to know everyone! 
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Welcome, Emily. Glad you are joining us.
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Welcome Shaun and Emily -- we're a fun group and you'll get lots of help and advice around here....just jump on in!
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Hi, I'm Amanda, currently living outside DC--Suburban MD, I guess it's called. My two daughters are 4.5 and 15mo, so at the moment we're mostly unschooling preschool. When we were in the Boston area, we became homeschoolers when dd#1 turned 3 and wasn't in a preschool!
I've enjoyed reading and learning from a few of these forums, and from some of the blogs of people here. I wanted to join so I could be less anonymous, and perhaps even post!
Thanks for allowing me to join your conversations here.
--Amanda
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Welcome Amanda and all new members!
Enjoy the boards...
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Hello! I'm Melissa. I have a 5 yr old daughter, 3.5 year old son, a 22 month old son and we're expecting again in January.
We live in NoVa. My sister (seven2hold) posts here.
In addition to hanging out at home with the kids I'm a newborn photographer (can't wait to have my own to photograph and play with again) and I do design work.
I started coming here trying to find ideas on celebrating feast days throughout the year with little people, and have been learning so much more than that!
Look forward to learning more!
Melissa
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Hey Melissa! Great to see you here!
Congratulations on your pregnancy! I am expecting again in December.
Are you planning on homeschooling? This is a great place to start.
I have plugged your business a number of times here. I can't wait to pick out more announcements in December!
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Welcome all new members--especially the very talented Melissa (who designed our Christmas cards and the Thank Yous for Marie's Communion!) It is such a pleasure to "see" you here!
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Thanks Molly. Congratulations to you too! You're so good to pass my name along. With Keith's discount through the diocese we're going to send Rebecca to K, but just half days. I've been "homeschooling" the kids up to this point--and it's been lots of fun--so I'm always looking for more ideas.
And Alice you are the sweetest! (I hope you got the thank you cards!)
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Hello, im stacia, i have 3 children ages 9, 7, and 2. hoping that God will bless us with more through birth or adoption soon. we homeschool and live in the country. i am espically intrested in the homeschooling boards here.
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Welcome Stacia! I have a 17 yos, 15 yod, 8 yos, 7 yod, and a 4yos .... the oldest is getting ready to start college in the Summer semester and the youngest keeps me hopping!
welcome to these boards -- jump right in and have a blast
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Hello, I'm Theresa from Northern Oklahoma. This is my first post. My husband of nearly 15 years and I have 4 children, 13yos, 10yos, 7yos, and 16 month old daughter. We have only been homeschooling for 2 years. I have really enjoyed reading on the different threads, but just had not gotten on to post anything until now. (Hope I'm doing this right??) Looking forward to "meeting" you'all online. God Bless.
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Hi! I figured it was about time I introduced myself here! I joined up some time ago (a couple of months after it started?) after seeing it posted on the CCM list. I don't think I ever posted an intro there, because when I joined up, we were still pre-children. Now though, I'm actually starting to read the forums somewhat regularly—and am occasionally having the urge to reply:-) I'm also reading the blogs of some regulars here, and in an effort to appear less 'stalkerish', I thought I really should actually get around to introducing myself!
I live in Western Australia and am Mama to Puggle (3) and Bilby (7 months), and wife to Paddington (needless to say, they are nom-de-blogs:-) ). I have been planning to homeschool since well before I had kids, fortunately dh agrees with me:-) We've just 'started' this year, basically that means I have a reading list to share with Puggle, and I'm doing some craft.
CM was my first real homeschooling 'interest', and that was why I started reading the CCM list. I kept reading it because of the wonderfully thoughtful ideas I found there. Now, I'm finally reading the forums (took me some time to learn the knack!) and am finding the same here:-)
I still lean towards CM, with Classical touches—but I have yet to see what will actually work with Puggle and Bilby:-) I am also keen on some elements of Montessori. So, yet another 'eclectic homeschooler':-)
It's been lovely getting to know you all through your posts, and I look forward to continuing to do so:-)
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Theresa and Fe:
Welcome to the boards! You are going to love it here. Theresa, I am glad to see that you have stopped lurking!  See you Monday at the Track and Field Day.
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