The Team
Our journey with homeschooling began during the pandemic. Kris was reluctant at first but only a few months in, we were all hooked! We have three children, two in high-school and our son is just at the beginning of his schooling. Now we are all engaged and very well connected with homeschooling in our small town community of Carstairs. Kris works away so when he's home this gives us more family time together. He enjoys all the discussions regarding what we are learning and joining us when he can. Amanda's outgoing personality has been an asset in getting people involved in the different homeschool activities. These activities include: sewing, kindergarten groups, art classes, fun get togethers, teen activities, and more. She also is on the Soccer Association Board and the Friends of the Carstairs Library board, and has organized a local homeschool conference this past spring, that she hopes will continue each year.
Our relationship started in the Rockies in western Alberta and that place seems to keep drawing us back. It feels like it has become considerably more work for us to get out there in the last few years, but we can’t seem to figure out why. (Our family increasing in size from 2 to 7 might have something to do with it!) We also love to spend time with our extended family, play music, sing, and watch our young children grow and experience life.
As children, we both transitioned into homeschooling around the years 1999-2000 from public schools; this set us on the path towards homeschooling our own children, as we saw firsthand the great power and flexibility that homeschooling offers to a family. As the parents of 5 beautiful young children, we are starting down the path of home education with a sense of gratitude that God has helped us to find this path in life and faith that he will help us to walk it well. Even though we are new to the journey of home educating our children, we are no strangers to homeschooling personally, and when we meet others who are along this homeschooling and parenting path, we can get pretty excited about it.