Category Archives: encouragement

Fifteen Year Old Memories Rubbing Like Thorns

At the age of nineteen, I went through a rough time.  It all revolved around a diagnoses of my dad having terminal cancer.  I was home from college on Christmas break when he became ill.  The first doctors who saw him said it was heart related.  Later, it was a gall bladder problem.  so they…

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Intro. to Have a HEART for Your Kids~Jan. 8

I can really relate to Rachel’s description of starting to homeschool.  The journey to getting there. I was raised in an ANTI-Homeschool family.  I was taught to believe that homeschooling made your kids weird, that they would be socially backwards, that they were just dumb ducks stuck at home all day and never learned nothing……

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Getting Ready for an Online Study of: How to Have a HEART for Your Kids by Rachel Carman

Over the years it has been difficult at time to keep a positive attitude about my children.  These time thankfully are few and far between, but I also know that I can improve my overall attitude. This is why I am starting a study with several other online friends with the book, How to Have…

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Project Belong Day of Prayer for Kansas’ Waiting Children

Close friends of mine started a ministry for Kansas Foster and adoptive Children. Below you can read more about their upcoming event. Project Belong is a Christian ministry working in partnership with the Church, families, and the community to awaken the Church to the call of James 1:27 and to recruit, train, and support foster…

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A Journey to Becoming a Proverbs 31 Wife and Link Up.

Well, it has been a bit since I blogged something besides a review.  That however is about to change and I am excited about new things coming for 2012. I pray all of you had a Merry Christmas.  We have six sick children, two who are sicker then we have had in nearly three years. …

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Homeschooling and Working From Home

The Hows.  The Whys.  The Good.  The Bad.  The Ugly. I think as a farmer’s wife, I have really worked from home all through the years, but he is pretty flexible, and well, he has to be nice…Ya know? Because, as wife, I have a little pull too… However, I have always been the one…

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The Learning Parent Giveaway~Uncle Rick Reads the Proverbs

Proverbs is one of those books, I wished I had memorized verbatim, however I don’t and I want to change that for my children.  That is one reason I recommend Uncle Rick Reads the Proverbs to all my friends.  Your children can listen to this Five hour reading and explanation of Proverbs from Chapter one…

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Keeping Your Marriage First Through the Homeschool Journey

Marriage can be tough. Homeschool can be tough. Put together, and well without a plan, God and Prayer…you will have a mess! No one really told me that homeschooling could get in the way of my marriage.  How can it, I thought when I read someone say that homeschooling and marriage don’t mix…then I realized,…

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Apologia~Educating the WholeHearted Child

Have you had homeschool mom guilt?  Are you in need of some encouragement from parents who have been through this journey? Educating the WholeHearted Child ($22.00), by Clay and Sally Clarkson is available from Apologia Education Ministries.  In all honesty, every Christian Homeschool Family needs to read this book.  It will set you free…seriously, it…

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