I always enjoy hearing your stories of how you started homeschooling with the Charlotte Mason Method.

Everybody's story is unique, yet there are also some similarities that just bind our hearts together as we hear those from each other.

Well, today, we want to share with you the stories of a couple of us here at SCN.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer.

Joining me today is my longtime friend, I won't say old friend, but long time friend and co-worker Karen Smith.

We've been friends for at least 35 years now.

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So we want to share with our listeners the story of how we started homeschooling with Charlotte Mason.

And so we probably need to go clear back to how we met

and what started this hall all off.

We met because we were going to the same church

in the Chicago area.

And our firstborns arrived at the same year as each other.

And then after your second one was born, you guys moved.

Is that about the right timeline? Yes. Yeah, when our second born was about a year old,

okay. We moved, we moved out of the Chicago area, about about an hour and a halfish. Yeah, and so we didn't see each

other every week at that point. No, but we still got together. We did. We did. Periodically,

we were able to get together. And as my oldest got to be five years old, that's when I was knowing that I needed to start kindergarten.

I mean, in my mind, I needed to have a set curriculum, but anybody listening, no, you don't have to.

Kindergarten year, you don't have to do formal lessons.

But in my mind, I did.

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