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Butterfly Moments

Growth-centered, Adventure-oriented Home-School-Life

It is necessary to write if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else indeed to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?

- Vita Sackville West

So glad you stopped by! I'm Jessie :

Voracious reader

Compulsive writer

Home educator

Board game player

Period Drama Fanatic

Out-of-the-box orthodox Jew

Adventure seeker...

Life is short and I don't have time to wait around for adventure to find me. Along with my five rambunctious kids and a husband I first saw in my dreams, we feed our insatiable curiosity through books, movies, games, and shoestring-budget trips that allow us to discover the world and revel in its beauty.

This is the space I've carved out to share my what I'm learning about parenting, Jewish homeschooling, travelling with kids and finding inspiration as a mom.

I Took The One Less Traveled By

Mar 19, 20216 min read

I Took The One Less Traveled By

I found something important that time Google Maps got me lost in the middle of nowhere. This is hard to admit, but after the past year,...

Rain in Slow Motion

Jan 27, 20212 min read

Rain in Slow Motion

I’m in fear of losing a moment; even while I am in it. My awe and delight are tinged with the knowledge that this moment of bliss is...

Miss Adventure

Jan 18, 20213 min read

Miss Adventure

Guys, I hiked two miles yesterday. The last day of the most challenging year of my life and I wanted to do something really memorable,...

Rerouting

Sep 9, 20204 min read

Rerouting

We don't know where we're going exactly. We just know that we're going. This is truly a ramble - no destination in mind. Just the need to ha

The aquaphobic daughter of a fisherman-turned-smuggler takes up competative swimming in order to escape her father's boat.

I wrote my first YA novel and I'm pretty excited about it.

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