It’s Ok to Give Up (or the day my head nearly exploded from my over-crowded...
Yesterday was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. For the past few weeks, things have been getting more and more wrangy around our house. I can blame the weather, I can blame the kids...
View ArticleHomeschool Convention for Someone Who’s Never Been Before
I’ll admit it. I grew up homeschooled, we decided to homeschool, and have now been doing it for 6 years without ever having once attended a homeschool convention. Yup, not a one. It’s not for lack of...
View ArticleThe Blessing that is the Teach Them Diligently Convention
This past weekend we spent together at the Teach Them Diligently Convention in Nashville, TN. This was our first EVER homeschool conference as a family, and am I ever glad we saved up the experience...
View ArticleFor Good
May has been a rollercoaster of a month. We started off with some awesome news of some major miracles, God at work in family members’ lives and health. With shouts of joy we praised God for his great...
View ArticleSeasons of Bible Study
Over the last couple of years God has been moving me through different seasons of bible study. I’ve written many times before about my journey of coming to a place of enjoying being in the word, and...
View ArticleBeams, Grace, And When Sin Stares You In the Face – The Importance of...
As parents, God has given us such a great privilege and responsibility. Babies are a sweet and precious gift, adorable bundles of (mostly :D) sweet-smells and moments with this amazing power to capture...
View ArticleWhat You Don’t See
Sometimes all you can think about is the work. How much work it is to stay on top of the laundry. How much work it is to meal plan and try to prepare healthy food for your family. Or just any food for...
View ArticleMust Have Items for Homeschooling with Littles
For the past 5 years we have been blessed to homeschool our little family. Granted, the first few of those years were the very basics of what you could call “school”, coupled with a lot of exploring,...
View ArticleEveryday Thanks
This past weekend we celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving as a family. Most years we have the great privilege of experiencing TWO turkey dinners with family, one with mine on the Sunday and one with my...
View ArticleBuild Each Other Up
The words spill fast. Faces fall and hearts crumble to the floor in pieces. Stomping, tears, then arms enfolding. Soft whispers into small hearts that each day seem to grow bigger, stronger, oh please...
View ArticleDear Tired Mama: Savour the Snuggles
We celebrated her first birthday on Sunday. Our 4th little miracle, a bundle of sweet Christmas joy, now growing into a little lady. And I see it so much more clearly now than ever before. I’ve been a...
View ArticleWhen Christmas Isn’t All You Had Planned
Christmas this year was different. It wasn’t all I had cracked it up to be. We had planned to take the month off of school, keeping up with a few book studies, some Christmas reading and math – but I...
View ArticleSimplify and Streamline – Clearing the Clutter and Cultivating Order
We are diving headlong back into school this week, and boy can I ever tell you how I’ve missed it! While we’ve had most of December off, I did not get as much planning and preparing done as I would...
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