I’m very excited to share that an essay I wrote about my life as a homeschooled student has been featured in Wild + Free’s most recent subscriber bundle, Wander. Wild + Free is a beautiful homeschool community. I have benefitted from their conferences, digital bundles, Instagram, and podcast.
I was thrilled to write about one of the most treasured memories from my days as a homeschooled student when my mom read to my siblings and me after lunch. I couldn’t wait to find out what would happen next to my favorite character, while being transported to another time or place by the power of Mom’s voice. These books were dubbed ‘family books,’ and we continued to read aloud together even long after I was old enough to read on my own. The power of the audible voice captured any wanderings of my mind, making the stories dance off the page and into my imagination.
To illustrate this article, my friend Molly Balint of The Farmhouse Creative photographed our own read-aloud moments. It’s so special to have these images, not just for the article, but to treasure and document our days.
I also got to chat with Jennifer Pepito about reading aloud as a family and how to know whether we’re doing too much or enough in the podcast portion of the bundle.
If you are interested in subscribing to the bundle (which is basically a digital magazine), check out the details here. You can even try one for FREE!
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