Early morning light casts shadows on the Bowman's back porch near Bardstown, Ky.

Carmel Bowman talks to vice principal of Bethlehem High School after giving a music lesson while daughter Hannah waits and reads.

William and Hannah Bowman read while enroute to their weekly music lessons with their grandfather.

In the kitchen of their seven-acre hobby farm, Carmel Bowman gives her eleven-year-old daughter, Hannah, a big, teasing hug that elicits a rare smile from Hannah.

Hannah Bowman, 11, reads and waits for her mother, Carmel Bowman, to finish giving music lessons at Bethlehem High School.

As the sun peaks over the horizon, the Bowman day begins with Carmel driving her fifteen-year-old son, Nathaniel, to school. In a rush, there is little time to clear the windshield of the early morning frost.

Hannah Bowman, 11, practices her back flips on a trampoline while taking a break from her homeschool studies on her family's farm in Nelson County.