Category Archives: encouragement

Top Ten Things To Do Daily To Keep Your Home More Together

Do you struggle to keep up around your home?  I sure do, but there are ten things you can do daily that will help your house, at least appear more together. Wipe and Swipe the bathroom every morning AFTER everyone is done shaving, makeup, hair. Sweep and vaccuum the high traffic areas of the home…

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Midwest Parent Educators Convention Here we come!!

I am packing and packing and check my list as we leave tomorrow morning.  I am taking four or five of my children with me…why don’t I know the official count?  Because my five year old is allergic to wheat pollen and the wheat is pollenating and well…he feels rotten.  However, I know that getting…

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Listening to God or Satan Getting in your Way?

Over the last few weeks, it has been a bit of a roller coaster around here.  Up down, around and around, Skidding to stops and flying down hills.  Our Hannah has had digestive issues that come and go, over and over. MIL had major surgery Van AC not working Dh’s Pick up keeps breaking down…

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Priorities and Blogging

Over the last six months, I have grown more and more concerned about some things in the homeschool blogging community.  It seems that some bloggers are so bent on getting 5-6 posts up a week that well, other things are suffering…their homes, husbands, family, children, and even worse…their relationship with God. Some call me unpredictable…

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Initial Thoughts from…Teach Them Diligently Convention

I didn’t blog like I planned to do.  Why?  Because it is taking me time to process all that I have brought away from the convention. If you watched my Facebook Feed throughout the convention, you know a little about the speakers I had the opportunity to listen too. One thing with this convention, as…

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Hannah, 3 Learned to Pedal (Video)

For those who have read my blog for a long time, you know about our Hannah’s rough start. Hannah’s first day of life in the NICU. We were told several times that her chances of some brain damage were fairly high, and to even expect it.  There were a couple of times when her blood…

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Have you Thanked a Soldier?

This weekend we had the honor of welcoming a soldier home from his most recent deployment.  What an honor it is. Do you understand the sacrifices this men give, in order to protect your freedom and rights? Do you realize that many have spent more than four years away from their families since 2001? Do…

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Hard Days in Homeschool~Facing the reality of special needs and learning disabilities

This is hard to write, but there are days that homeschooling is so hard, you want to crawl in a hole.  Why? Some days no matter how you explain a concept, you feel as you are failing, as a teacher in teaching your child something new.  If you happen to ask someone else who isn’t…

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The Place to be in March and I Will be THERE!!

There is one place to be in March if you are a Christian Homeschool parent, and I get to be there. Where Spartanburg, South Carolina at the Teach Them Diligently Convention    “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might. And…

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