Summer is Nearly Over – Come to the Lord and Be Refreshed

Phew…the summer went by fast didn’t it? I don’t know about you, but this summer was fraught with activity and busyness. My high schoolers took an elective class over the summer with a small group of friends and then they both had an online class as well. Between the two, I felt like I was encouraging and teaching all...

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Review – A Child’s Geography: Explore His Earth

Searching for geography curriculum has been a fruitless pursuit for me, so I dabbled in creating my own. Mostly that entailed discussing earth as our home, and locating places on the globe from our history and literature studies. That was enough, but I’ve wanted to go more in depth with my elementary age son. When I was...

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Review – A Child’s Geography: Explore His Earth

What a tremendous pleasure it was to review this incredible geography resource! Ann Voskamp has done a marvelous job in creating a geography program that is appealing to both parents and children alike. A Child’s Geography does not read like a textbook at all, but has a living literature flavor. Delightful to read, I found...

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Tidy Ho

I enjoy tidy. A place for everything and everything in its place. But I relish clean. The unparalleled splendor of glistening toilets and spit-shined counters (well, maybe not spit-shined) nearly makes me weep. Unfortunately, since time is short, tidy trumps clean more than I care to admit. But I have learned to “Look to...

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Book Review: Sex, Sushi & Salvation

Christian George has a way with words (he affectionately refers to his wife as his baby back rib) and knows his way around a bible. His first book, Sex, Sushi and Salvation is a compilation of his thoughts on intimacy, community, modern Christianity and eternity. As if the title of the book wasn’t enough to make his wife...

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Am I a normal parent?

As a homeschooling mother of 4 children, 5 and under, I would imagine that I am not a normal parent by society’s standards. However, according to Sara Dimerman’s, “Am I a normal parent?” I just might be. Ms. Dimerman is a married psychologist and mother of two living in Canada. Included in her book are...

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Heart of the Matter Online Meme: Thoughts on Future Memes

Welcome to the Heart of the Matter Online meme. Every Friday we will feature a different topic for our meme. Mr. Linky is set up below so please share with us your Thoughts on Future Memes! We want to hear about all of the things you would like to learn about homeschooling. What could you offer to another homeschooling family...

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