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Kate is 24!

 Kate had her 24th birthday! She is happy living at home and will live at home as long as she is not married. She has written two novels. I am not sure if she has another one in her right now or not, but I expect she will. She helps with homeschooling too. She is the calculus teacher and doing an excellent job with that. Kate's baby blessing said that she would love each one of her siblings as individuals and be a bonding influence in the family and Kate is definitely that. Sometimes the other kids feel like Kate has a little too much popularity and despise her for a day or two, but then she gathers them all together for a big game of legos or dungeons and dragons. Kate loves the Cure with me and that makes me happy too. I am glad that we have not kicked our kids out at 18. I wish that they had marriage prospects, but I am glad we took the old fashioned approach and let them stay here. They will be able to go into marriage debt free and that is good. 

**Just a note. We do not believe the in the courtship model for marriage. We trust our kids to choose their own spouses and want them to be alone a whole lot and know a person deeply before marrying them. It seems like folly to me to not let my kids know how they will be able to talk and get along in private with the person they will marry before it happens.