Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books
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I find that books are both a necessity and a luxury. I can’t live without them, but they also aren’t a top priority when it comes to budgeting. I decided to splurge and use some gift money and a rebate to purchase a few books that have been on my wish list for some time. …
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One of the things I am passionate about is helping parents understand their child’s learning and personality needs. I have dozens of posts on this website about tailoring our parenting and homeschooling to our child’s unique bent whether she is right-brained, gifted, twice-exceptional, spirited, highly-sensitive, or wired differently in some other way. But I also …
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As if homeschooling our children isn’t enough, many of us also decide to add working at home to the mix. I still haven’t decided if we’re blessed to be able to work at home or totally crazy. Probably a bit of both. I began working at home as a writer when I decided to leave …
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The oft-repeated story is that if you are in a plane and the oxygen masks drop, you always put on your own mask first. Once your mask is on, you are free to help others without endangering your own well-being. The point of the story is that we need to take care of ourselves first …
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Homeschooling offers the opportunity to create strong family bonds that are filled with joy because, above all else, homeschooling is about relationships. Yes, learning academic subjects is important. Children need an education that includes learning how to write, do math, and so on. But if it comes at the expense of the parent-child relationship (or …
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“In order to push back, we have to build a strong edifice against it to protect our children from becoming cogs.”
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Homeschool moms need encouragement. Lots of it. For the vast majority of us, we’re doing something we’ve never experienced before personally. We’re often striking out in a new direction among our family and friends, not all of whom are always supportive. Even other homeschool moms can tear us down. Add in all the complexities of …
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This is a Major Accomplishment It might not seem like it, but with this post I will have completed an entire year of My Homeschool Journal which is a major accomplishment for me! Why is this an accomplishment? My want-to-do list FAR exceeds my time-to-do-everything-I-want-to-do list. You would laugh if you could see my to …
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A Picture to Share Caroline and I have many things in common. One is that neither one of us is a fan of getting our picture taken. However, this was a sweet picture we took on Sunday morning that I wanted to share. You can really see Caroline’s shorter hair here after she had it …
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Homeschooling has been legal and relatively mainstream for almost twenty years. Homeschoolers have a tremendous amount of freedom and nearly endless learning opportunities. Colleges actively welcome homeschoolers. Homeschoolers attend a huge variety of colleges and universities, including the Ivies. Yet it’s amazing some of the ridiculous things that are said to homeschoolers. I asked a few groups …
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In My Life This Month I find myself astonished that it’s already mid-October. David remarked at breakfast this morning that this entire year has just felt off. It feels like we’ve struggled to hit that sweet spot of flow that makes life move a bit more effortlessly in terms of focus and rhythm. It hasn’t …
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In My Life This Month We wrapped up our summer of transformation and headed into the late summer/early fall of medical testing. I’ve been poked, prodded, examined, questioned, monitored, scoped, tested, injected, and drawn. I had a clean scope for my EoE which was a reason to celebrate. Now to figure out if it is …
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In My Life This Month The Transformation Summer of 2017 is drawing to a close. If you remember from last month, we have been doing extensive work on our home. We were also updating all the printables and planners in my shop. We’re mostly done with the house and it looks fantastic. David is finishing …
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In My Life This Month The past several weeks I have been weary, if I am going to be totally honest. The summer heat and humidity always wear me out. Upheaval in my home always wears on me. And I’ve been drowning in the minutia of updating 250+ printable products and then updating them on …
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In My Life This Month Isn’t the release into the freedom of summer one of the most wonderful feelings in the world? We have very little that is scheduled regularly during the school year, but there is something about that feeling of no commitments, no schedules, and very few expectations that makes me very happy. …
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Since all of us were educated in some way, we all carry certain expectations regarding what education should look like. I attended public school from kindergarten through college. I then took my teaching degree and taught in various private, Christian, Classical Christian, and Hillsdale model schools. One might think that my broad experience would be …
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In My Life This Month If you thought it seemed like it had been a bit since I put up a new post, you would be correct. One of the changes I’ve made as I started thinking about pursuing a quiet simple life again is to not pressure myself to produce content all the time. …
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In My Life This Month Last month I said that I was playing catch-up after Caroline was sick and then I was. Well, lather, rinse, repeat. I’m coming off the cold Caroline brought home. This time we all went through it and I got the tail end of it all. I keep looking at my …
