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Vendors Galore!

Have you checked out all of the vendors and sponsors we have gathered up for Harmony this fall?! I invite you to scroll through (and click through!) this page to check out all the wonderful folks and resources that we will get to share with you. Almost two dozen different vendors will be set up…

Prove It

The proofs are here! I was sipping something warm and delicious from my brand new 2023 Paideia Northwest mug when I got the final proof of the shirts we are having printed through Swan Graphics. What fun to have these things! Stickers, pens, and more will be showing up in swag bags at the conference…

Getting out the kinks

It really is a lot of fun to visit the Paideia Northwest website now and see the beautifully updated facelift it has recently received! I am so grateful to the Smith family from Paideia Southeast for their assistance in getting us across the finish line with website updates and changes. There may continue to be…

Suggested Reading

If you are interested in reading more about paideia, particularly how it relates to Christian education, we recommend the following: Podcasts on Paideia from The Scholé Sisters The Paideia of God by Douglas Wilson Classical Education and the Homeschool by Callihan, Jones, and Wilson On Secular Education by R.L. Dabney Recovering the Lost Tools of…

What is paideia? pie-day-uh!

I have always loved the word paideia. It’s a word I kind of grew up on. Having been raised in the Reformed Christian tradition, Greek and Hebrew and Latin words are not unfamiliar to me, although I have never even considered the option of studying one of those languages to the point where I were fluent…

Looking Back at W3

I noticed recently that I was writing W3 in some of my notes as shorthand for Wonder, Wisdom, Worship… and since I’ve had friends attend a conference called G3 (standing for Gospel, Grace, and Glory), I guess I’ll allow myself to use the nickname now and then. 🙂 At any rate, it’s hard to believe…

Giving

I love giving away functional and beautiful things. I love sharing companies that I value, that are local or small or Christian-based or mama-run. I love reading off numbers from blue construction paper tickets and waiting for acknowledgement from a conference attendee that she has won a book, or jewelry, or artwork, or magazines, or…

It’s officially “busy week”

I have realized by now, five years into hosting conferences for mamas raising and educating their kids for Christ, that it isn’t until the Sunday before the conference that my brain switches officially into “busy week.” Once it is “this week” instead of “next week” or “next month” or in November. It’s comically similar to…