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We're Jacqueline and Randy, a blogging duo with backgrounds in tech, robots, art, and writing now raising our family in northern Idaho.

Our goal is to encourage deliberate choices, individual responsibility, and lifelong curiosity by sharing stories about our adventures in living, loving, and learning.

Learn more about us.

We'd love to connect—and keep you updated!

Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament?

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Homeschooling Year Reflections (2024-2025)

Morning lessons, daily chores, playing in the woods, and all the other things that go into our educational year!
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Weaving Tapestry, Learning New Techniques, and Making Art

Tapestry is a slow art form, in many ways, and very different from painting or drawing! Here are some of my latest projects.
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Garden Year 7, 2025: Starting Seeds, Blocking Soil, Interplanting, and More

New grape vines, blocks of seeds, more flowers, selling plants… It's a fun year in the garden!
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Pickled Magnolia Blossoms

Finding new ways to use the plants growing in my yard is fun, and delicious. Magnolia flowers have a gingery flavor that works great pickled!
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Motherhood, Children, and Opportunity Cost

You always choose to do some things at the cost of others. When it comes to having children, the costs can be large—but so can the benefits. How can mothers balance their conflicting values and choices?
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Learning to Identify Local Wildflowers

I want to know what grows around me. I hope to learn edible and medicinal plants. And learning flowers builds a connection with the place I live!

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Did you know a group of owls is called a parliament?

About

We're Jacqueline and Randy, a blogging duo with backgrounds in tech, robots, art, and writing, now raising our family in northern Idaho.

Our goal is to encourage deliberate choices, individual responsibility, and lifelong curiosity by sharing stories about our adventures in living, loving, and learning.

Learn more about us.


Connect:

whoo@deliberateowl.com

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Curious about our life and journey? Here are some good places to start reading:

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A Blog About Education, Lifestyles, and Community

A brief history of how the Deliberate Owl came to be and why we're writing a blog about us, our lives, and how we're living out our values.
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Discovering the Traditional Catholic Mass

How I discovered the traditional Latin Mass a few years ago, why that discovery changed everything for me, and what was wrong with the Novus Ordo Masses I'd attended.