Beat the Winter Blues with Encouragement Winter happens everywhere and homeschoolers feel the changes in every way. The shortened days, cold weather and the looming busyness and distractions of the Holiday season can leave a parent feeling stressed. The Fall Into Learning Summit was created to encourage you and help you overcome all the challenges…
Making room for Dad is an intentional act. Can I just be a little bit honest here? There were days my husband would just show up and hang out on a rare unscheduled day off. It would throw off my groove. Sometimes I would get a little huffy and resentful. After all, I had a…
Reading as a family has helped us connect to Who Jesus is, where He grew up and respond in kind to the world around us with these 3 treasured books.
When choosing a curriculum, the truth is: It is All About You Have you ever wondered what I use at home for a school with 10 different grades? Yes, 10 kids in 10 different grades. Have you wondered how I haven’t just completely lost my mind? That is ok. We get that a lot. In our…
I am beginning to understand why there is such a connection with Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Over the last few weeks there have been 7 deaths in our small community. Lives altered forever. Among those were three teens that went missing over the weekend. Searchers found them yesterday, after three days of waiting, in the…
There a millions of TECH gift options out there and just as many retailers to choose from. How do you narrow down the list of tech gifts and choose the one your kid is going to love? I am glad you asked. In my annual tech review last year I recommended Kindle Fires and their…
I had a lesson in child training from a prisoner and a horse. There was a gem in my FaceBook news feed. I rarely watch videos in the quiet of the morning but a few days back I watched this video about horse training. It was a short piece about a prison in Arizona that pairs inmates…
Do your ever get an invitation that you really want to accept, but you have far too many chores to really allow your self the luxury of an outing? This is how I was feeling a few weeks ago. Summer should be relaxing compared to the life we live while homeschooling 10 kids, but it…
Have you ever felt like you were just holding your breath, waiting to beat out the clock? Motherhood has hit me in many waves. We race. We hold our breath, but eventually we break the surface and swim our own channels.
How Do You Choose? Choosing the right tablet can seem daunting. There is no shortage of options for giving tech, but my first priority is for my kids to be safe online. The technology is in place at a price we can all afford Right now Kindle Fire, this powerful little tablet, is available from…
My husbands Father and and Mother divorced when he was just a year old, though his Dad remained a part of his life, the passing of skills that normally happens in the garage was interrupted by distance. At 10, I acquired a Dad by marriage. The poor guy was 26 with a new wife, a teenager,…
The world has made sex cheap and unsatisfying by reducing it to the level of skin. Please tell my kids that we are so much more than skin.
I am in this strange place where my older kids are independent and I still have little ones underfoot. I realized the other day none of my “littles” have never been to the Apple Orchard. An event I looked forward to 13 years ago with my first batch of enthusiastic toddlers. Alas, I am old,…
It was not for the thrill of seeing how long it would take for my skin to crack open and peel. It was not even because we love badly performed minor league baseball. No. We sat in the blazing shadeless inferno that we call the Iowa Cubs stadium because as parents, that is what we…
I just swept my house, in the dark. It needed to be done. The kids needed to go to bed. The place was really quite a mess. The kind of mess that used to make my husband a little panicky, but he has been around us for a while and knows the difference between literal…