Overview: Personal Bible study can be hard to maintain day after day. Here are doable tips that don’t expect you to spend hours but still give you that injection of the Spirit that you need. It’s 3:00 in the afternoon, and you’re frazzled and grumpy. It’ll be time to start dinner soon, and you wish …
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Overview: Teaching from Rest by Sarah Mackenzie is a must-read that not only provides powerful insight about successful homeschooling in general but can be adapted to homeschooling high school, too. Homeschooling high school can be overwhelming. Are you feeling harried, anxious, and worried that you’re not doing enough? That your kid will have a horrible …
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When money is tight, sometimes we have to take radical measures. Sometimes the usual cost-cutting techniques are not enough. The Man and I have dealt with money shortages several times during our marriage — no comment as to whether or not we are in one now, lol — and early on we developed a system …
Overview: Homeschool paperwork, especially grading, can easily become overwhelming. Read tips for keeping it under control and recovering when you’re behind. This has got to be one of the most guilt-inducing homeschool tasks ever, am I right? When you don’t keep up with the homeschool paperwork — the lesson plans and grading (and transcript! ack!) …
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I asked a question in my It’s Not that Hard to Homeschool K-8 Facebook group recently: “Do you feel like a success as a homeschool mom? Why or why not?” As you can imagine, there was a wide range of answers — but more “no’s” than I expected. But as I think about it, it makes …
Dear Homeschool Mom who Feels Like a Failure — maybe you’re looking at it wrong. Read More »
Dear homeschool mom, are you afraid your homeschooled child is academically behind his/her peers? Or maybe you already “know” he is, and you are thinking you should put him back in a formal schooling situation to catch back up. Well, today I have some encouragement for you! And the fun thing is that the encouragement …
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How long is your to-do list for today? If you’re like me, you cram it full in the hopes that you can get to all these things that really should get done. And then you get done about three. And then all the others are still staring at you for the next several days. And …
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“Sometimes the hardest, bravest thing is choosing to live another day in this broken, wonderful world.” –Melanie Dale Because the world is broken, make no mistake. And that means life is hard. Like pretty much constantly. “If it’s not one thing, it’s another.” (Are you hearing Rosanne Rosannadanna in your head? :-) ) Whether it’s …
Complaining affects your brain — try these tips for positive thinking! Read More »
Have you ever set a morning routine and started doing it really well, only to have it fall by the wayside in a matter of just days or a couple of weeks? Been there, done that MANY times, lol. I think there’s a secret to a morning routine that is sustainable over the long haul, …
If you don’t know what a sinking fund is, you are in the right place. If you know what one is but are not using them, you are also in the right place. Sinking funds are a KEY defense against the typical family budget busters. Sinking funds are a relatively new (within the last year …
I’m setting aside what I had scheduled for today to publish this post instead. Because I’m finding out that there is a HUGE need for a post like this. Let’s get our facts straight about what is really necessary for homeschooling high school. Every day in my Facebook group called It’s Not That Hard to …
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I had a fairly epic failure recently. But the positive changes it has brought about in my life are significant enough that I want to share it with y’all, in the hopes that it may help you, too. You see, through my failure I learned an effective method for dealing with anxiety — or at …
We would all like to increase our income as time goes on, wouldn’t we? But sometimes that doesn’t happen; in fact, sometimes the process goes in reverse, and we actually need to start living with LESS. It might be a job loss or change, or recent medical procedures that must be paid for, or some …
Last week I listed my Top Ten Most Popular posts for 2015. Those were ones that you, my faithful readers — whom I love dearly! — picked. Today I get to tell you what MY favorite posts were from this past year. There is some overlap, but the ones I like veer more towards those …
I have a love/hate relationship with the term “excellence.” Part of that is due to my own laziness, lol. Another part is caused by inherent insecurity. But in my opinion there is actually a real danger in our current dependence on the word, which seems to have become a buzzword lately. I think we need …
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We’ve been at this homeschooling thing for quite awhile now. If you count the pre-school years, when I started teaching my daughter to read, it’s been about 18 years of non-stop homeschool. But I really count starting homeschool as when we signed up for our church’s Christian-school-sponsored home study program. It was basically a homeschool …
Advice for The Young Mom Starting Homeschool: What I Should Have Listened To Read More »
Last week I began looking at holiday stress and how to reduce it. It’s a real fact of life for many of us. It’s too easy to become so wrapped up (ha! see what I did there?) in the busy-ness of getting things done that we don’t enjoy the season. So last week I discussed …
My mom cried because the turkey wasn’t done. I remember this incident from a childhood holiday very clearly. We had all been told that dinner was ready and that it was time to come to the table. As my dad began to carve the bird, it was discovered that the meat was in fact not …
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Who is your favorite homeschool mom? Is there one that you wish you could be like? Maybe she is extremely organized, or she has the parenting thing DOWN, or she knows how to create totally engaging and informative unit studies. It’s wonderful to have women to look up to in our lives, because from them …
There came a day I realized I could not keep going the way things were. I could not keep sucking it up and continuing on. I just could not do the job I had been given to do that day. That was the day I first learned about asking for help. It was a Sunday …
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