Julia

Julia started as a Kindergartener in Ms. Pat's class in 2005, the first year that Prairie Moon started shop. There were four Kindergarteners, Julia, Quinn, Maddy, and Emma. I had first been interested in Waldorf when our oldest child, Ben, was going into Kindergarten in 1998 in Minnesota. He was set to go to school there:
but we had a major problem - it was 45 minutes from our home and we only had one car. So we decided not to send him there.
Our family ended up moving to Kansas in 2001. I was a stay-at-home mom until Julia started school and then I decided to go back to graduate school to earn my Ph.D. in chemistry. I just couldn't see putting my daughter, my baby, in public school. She needed somewhere safe and nurturing and Prairie Moon I think came up on a web search. I ended up emailing Monica Eichler and coming to playgroup a couple of times and said, yes, let's do this. And so it began for our family.
Picture of Julia and Ben outside Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas (October 2008)