Please join us for the the 10th Annual NEPA Catholic Homeschool Moms’ Day Out on February 24, 2024. Come for spiritual refreshment and camaraderie! It will be held at St. Michael’s on Jackson Street in Scranton.
See the schedule of events below . . . Adoration, Confession, Holy Mass, inspiring talks, social time, great food, and so on. We all could use the spiritual and mental boost as winter continues and Lent begins! We will continue to update this page as more details are available.
SPEAKERS:
Father Mahowald, Pastor of St. Michael’s
Father Bergman, Thomas More Society, St. Joseph
Sofia Cuddeback, homeschooling mom
Sofia Cuddeback joins us from Front Royal, Virginia where she and her husband John have raised and homeschooled their 6 children, the last of whom is approaching the end of his middle school years. Growing up in a musical family, Sofia earned a Suzuki violin teaching certificate at the Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan studying with Dr. Suzuki in her two gap years between highschool and college. Since that time she has taught Suzuki violin from her home almost without interruption. Her love of music extends to singing as well and has directed church choirs as well as taught extensively for her homeschooling co-op. A lover of learning, Sofia has been grateful to be married to a professional philosopher (John teaches philosophy at Christendom College in Front Royal) as their conversations, as well as the homeschooling of their children has provided her with the continuous opportunity to keep learning. Sofia helps John in his work at LifeCraft, a non-profit organization providing principles for making the home a place to truly become human. But what she really does, is be a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom and homemaker 🙂
Kristen Ciaccia, Homeschooling mom
Kristen Ciaccia lives in Dallas, Pennsylvania with her husband of 30 years, Paul. They are the parents of seven children and five grandchildren this May! She was born in San Francisco and raised in Marin County, California. She was baptized Episcopalian and grew up in a nominal Christian environment but converted to the Catholic faith when she was eighteen years old. She graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and then served as the Program Director for Pennsylvanians for Human Life in Southeastern PA. In this position, Kristen wrote grants, conducted speaker recruitment and training sessions, helped to refine the Respect Life Curriculum used in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s schools, and served as media spokeswoman.
Kristen has been homeschooling her children from grade school through high school for twenty-two years, and she has taught Latin, Logic, Algebra I & II, Geometry, and Rhetoric & Oratory to homeschooled children, including her own, in a co-op setting and at a hybrid academy. Kristen has also tutored high school students with ClubZ! In-Home Tutoring in Luzerne County and with Studyworks SAT Prep in Philadelphia where she worked for seven years.
Three of her children have earned college degrees from Franciscan University, Drexel University, & Pennsylvania College of Technology. One of her other daughters will be graduating from Catholic University this May, and another is finishing up her freshman year at St. Francis University where she plays field hockey. As a result of these diverse groups of colleges, Kristen has gained experience with utilizing a diploma program, a parent’s diploma, writing an extended transcript, scheduling and preparing for SAT subject tests, meeting the requirements and finishing all the paperwork for a Division I NCAA scholarship, and discovering which young scholar college courses will earn college credit.
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This is a free event, sponsored by Hillside Education, but we welcome donations to defray the cost of food, etc. You can use the button below or you can donate on the day of the event. Thank you!
BOOK SALE: There will be a TON of homeschooling and Catholic topics books for sale for $1.00
BOOK SWAP: If you have used books to give away or to sell, please bring them and we will have an area set aside for you to display them. If you are selling, please provide an envelope into which other moms can place their payments.
Hillside book sale: All books discounted. (This helps defray the cost of the event)
I looked forward to this event so very much every year in the past and hope our restart will be just as inspirational and heart-lifting.
RSVP HERE
Schedule for the day:
7:45am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
8:00 – 8:45 Confessions
9:00am Mass (Traditional Latin Mass)
9:40ish Talk by Fr. Mahowold, FSSP
Followed by social time, snacks available. Browse used book swap
11:00ish Talk by Sophia Cuddeback
12:00ish Lunch
1:30ish Talk by Kristen Ciaccia on homeschooling high school
2:00 ish: Talk by Father Bergman
Followed by social time and book browsing as long as you like, well, maybe till dark.
DOOR PRIZES:
If you would like to donate something for the door prize drawing, please contact me!