Cozy and Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books
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Nine years ago today, this beautiful young lady made me a mommy. Caroline was the answer to many, many years of prayers, hoping, and tears. Caroline is a creative, funny, imaginative little girl who brings laughter to our home many times every day. The name we felt led to choose for her, Caroline Elisabeth, means …
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One of the things I loved about early blogging (circa 2005) was it provided a way to chat about everyday life with people online. I’d write a few thoughts, people would respond, I’d respond, and it was fun. Sometimes I miss just writing a chatty post. So here we go. This is a post of …
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A few weeks ago I was contacted by Shari’s Berries regarding their Happiness Happens promotion. They offered to send me a free product to spark a post about happiness. I loved the sound of it, but because of my Eosinophilic Esophagitis there is literally not one thing on their website I could safely eat. However. …
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One of the oft-cited cardinal rules of having a strong family is eating together as a family. I agree with this in theory. I do think a lack of regular and meaningful family time is a significant problem in our culture. In our case, because we work from home and homeschool, we have the opportunity …
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I received a one year subscription to Covenant Eyes Internet Accountability and Filtering in exchange for reviewing the service. All opinions and content are my own. We are heavy technology users. Between working from home, homeschooling, and having a daughter who learns best with technology, we utilize our laptops and Kindles a lot every day. …
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Do Moms Need “Me Time”? was originally published March 9, 2009, on my previous blog to accompany a poll I had in the sidebar. I’m republishing it as is. I was tempted to edit it since I would word things differently now, but if I did the discussion that follows in the comments might not …
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May 11 is an official holiday in our home! We celebrate It’s a Girl! Day to commemorate finding out via ultrasound that we were at very long last expecting a girl. We had prayed specifically for a daughter all of those years and were a mixture of joy and tears when the technician told us …
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We have two picky eaters in our home. My daughter is a picky eater. I’m the other one. Because I’ve always been very particular about food, it makes it much easier to accept my daughter’s eating preferences. And she has had them from very early on. Raising a Picky Eater I remember one day when my …
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I was recently involved in a discussion with educators online related to the Pearson testing spying debacle (articles here, here, and here). I brought up that I thought testing had done more to accelerate the movement toward homeschooling than anything else I had witnessed in the past twenty years. Multiple teachers jumped in and said …
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When you live in a place with long winters, you need to develop ways of not just coping with winter but thriving in it. Winter in Michigan begins sometime in November and ends sometime (hopefully) in March. That’s many weeks of cold, snow and dark. On top of that, West Michigan can be rather cloudy …
