Home Sweet School

Anna Stewart,7, plays with a very tolerant Calicola, the family cat, as her father Pat Burdette paints an upstair window. A neighborhood dog decides to visit the scene as well. The Burdettes were given an abandoned two room board and battan house which they refurbished in Marion County. The Burdette family: Anna Stewart, 7, father Pat, mother Ilona Burdette, son Tibor, 4. The Burdettes are a close knit family who live in Marion County. Pat and Ilona homeschool and enjoy spending the majority of the day with their children. They want to impart their faith to the children and instill values like modest living and sense of self.

Anna Stewart Burdette laughs at a story about her little brother as a child during an evening before bedtime. Ilona Burdette said that some of their favorite times of the day are in the evening, just talking and laughing. The Burdette family: Anna Stewart, 7, father Pat, mother Ilona Burdette with son Tibor, 4. The Burdettes are a close knit family who live in Marion County. Pat and Ilona decided to homeschool in order to spend more time with their children, impart their faith and instill values like modest living and sense of self.

Seven year old Anna Stewart Burdette lounges in a comfortable chair near the window in her living room during reading time, a part of her homeschool day. Anna Stewart,7, just finished her first long book "Ella Enchanted" so that she could watch the movie- something that her mother suggested. The Burdette family: Anna Stewart, 7, father Pat, mother Ilona Burdette, son Tibor, 4. The Burdettes are a close knit family who live in Marion County. Pat and Ilona homeschool and enjoy spending the majority of the day with their children. They want to impart their faith to the children and instill values like modest living and sense of self.

Father Pat Burdette and daughter Anna Stewart Burdette, 7, have a disagreement on when she can watch the movie 'Ella Enchanted' as her grandfather (foreground) reads the paper after dinner. The Burdette family: Anna Stewart, 7, father Pat, mother Ilona Burdette, son Tibor, 4. The Burdettes are a close knit family who live in Marion County. Pat and Ilona homeschool and enjoy spending the majority of the day with their children. They want to impart their faith to the children and instill values like modest living and sense of self.

Tibor Burdette, 7, squirms in the bathtub as his mother hurries to bathe him and rush the children out the door for an appointment. The Burdette family: Anna Stewart, 7, father Pat, mother Ilona Burdette, son Tibor, 4. The Burdettes are a close knit family who live in Marion County. Pat and Ilona homeschool and enjoy spending the majority of the day with their children. They want to impart their faith to the children and instill values like modest living and sense of self.

Ilona Burdette, sits with her son Tibor, 4, so he will sit still and read during a homeschool day. Tibor is an energetic child who loves to play outside. The Burdette family: Anna Stewart, 7, father Pat, mother Ilona Burdette, son Tibor, 4. The Burdettes are a close knit family who live in Marion County. Pat and Ilona homeschool and enjoy spending the majority of the day with their children. They want to impart their faith to the children and instill values like modest living and sense of self.

Anna Stewart,7, gets climbs down from her father's pickup truck after playing "Tibor tag", a game that her cousins invented that requires players to tag her four year old brother Tibor while never getting off the pickup truck. The Burdette family: Anna Stewart, 7, father Pat, mother Ilona Burdette, son Tibor, 4. The Burdettes are a close knit family who live in Marion County. Pat and Ilona homeschool and enjoy spending the majority of the day with their children. They want to impart their faith to the children and instill values like modest living and sense of self.

Pat Burdette reads bedtime stories to Anna Stewart and Tibor as Ilona falls asleep. The family usually sleeps together, a practice that started when the children were nursing and which the children prefer now. The Burdette family: Anna Stewart, 7, father Pat, mother Ilona Burdette, son Tibor, 4. The Burdettes are a close knit family who live in Marion County. Pat and Ilona homeschool and enjoy spending the majority of the day with their children. They want to impart their faith to the children and instill values like modest living and sense of self.