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What’s Love Got To Do With It?

The conventional wisdom of the secular world would say that this is the month of spending love. Messages overwhelm the airwaves beginning on November 1st in preparation for the upcoming Christmas holiday, until February 15th , that if we spend enough money, we can somehow simulate love. These same stores, incidentally, refuse...

Cyber Party for all the Wives Out There!

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Our good friend and author Sheila Wray Gregoire is having a Valentine’s Cyber Party today. If you are stopping by for the Scavenger Hunt, the secret word you need to remember is “NOT”. Now click on over to the next stop in your journey and find another clue. If you are a regular Heart of the Matter reader...

To Love, Honor, and Vacuum

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Do you sometimes feel more like a maid than a wife and a mother…like you never have enough time in the day to get everything done that needs to get done, let alone anything that you actually want to do? This book is for you! To Love, Honor and Vacuum by Sheila Wray Gregoire will help women find peace in the midst of their...

For those active kids

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…and which ones aren’t? I have found that incorporating a little movement in our day goes a long way toward providing an outlet for energy and aiding learning for an active child. Colin, who’s 7, loves to have physical ways of learning or practicing a concept. Occasionally I’ll happen upon something...

Nature Portfolio Throughout the Year (giveaway!)

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“We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things.” ~Charlotte Mason A few months ago I wrote a review on Barbara Shukin’s Medieval History Portfolio Junior. You can tell from my...

Happy Birthday Spunky!!

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We would like to wish our wonderful Karen, aka Spunky, a very blessed birthday. Please stop by her blog at Spunky Homeschool and leave her a birthday comment. ...

Movin’ & Schoolin’

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It wasn’t in my lesson plans. I didn’t have it scheduled for that summer. Heck, it wasn’t even on my radar. But after 15 years of living in my beloved Oklahoma, the summer of 2005 brought change on a major scale. We were moving. I’d had my share of moving as a kid, following the space shuttle program as...

The Study of Whales and the History of Whaling

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Whales…hmmm, what do we know about the history of whales? Well, God created them, then Jonah got swallowed by one…but theres’ more. We’re going to learn about these amazing ocean creatures, how many species, where they live, their unique design and also how they have been useful to man. The oceans are teaming...

Working With My Kids’ Learning Styles

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I grew up going to school every day and learning what I was told to learn in whatever way the teacher chose to present it. Thankfully for me, I learn easily in most modalities. It wasn’t until my husband and I were homeschooling our kids that we realized just how important learning styles are for kids being academically...