Heart of the Matter

Thank you so much for your participation in this carnival, it has been a blast and quite the learning experience.  We have decided to combine the last 2 weeks of the carnival in this post since we only receive 3 entries for “week 7″. Please scroll down to find the winner of the prize package.

Organizing your Activities

• Bethany LeBedz from Confessions of an Organized Homeschool Mom gives us a light-hearted look at celebrating Christmas AND homeschooling at the same time in her post Deck the Halls.

• Molly Green from Econobusters shares her review on The Schoolhouse Planner.

• Tammy from Garden Glimpses shares her Suggestions for finding often overlooked “field trip” places.

Organizing your “Heart”

• Erin from Delighting in His Richness provides inspiration for those really tough days — like a wheat seed, if we die to self through offering ourselves a living sacrifice God can multiply our harvest for generations.

• Molly Green from Econobusters says as stay at home moms who blog, work, homeschool, and do social networking, our priorities can get WAY out of line if we allow them to. In order to organize your heart, you have to have some balance in each area..

• Tammy from Garden Glimpses shares a couple of key Scripture verses that will help keep your heart on task as a mom.

• Bethany LeBedz from Confessions of an Organized Homeschool Mom gives us a reminder that ultimately we aren’t in control of our plans and we need to focus on what God brings out way each day in order to receive His blessings in her post Life is What Happens When You Have Other Plans.

• Jamie from Rose Cottage encourages us to let go of the illusion of control and learn to accept God’s Will even when it isn’t convenient, in her post Inconvenient.

• Kristina from On Fire in PNG gives us a reminder of why we homeschool in the first place.

• Fran from Happily Ever After writes about the need to appreciate how our husbands love us “in the little ways”. It’s not about presents and material things, but about honoring us and being there for us when we need them.

• Lori from All You Have To Give writes a beautiful devotional on the quote, “One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.”

• Christine from Fruit in Season discusses not allowing yourself to become a burden to your children by doing for them what they can do for themselves, in her post Lightening the Load.

Previous Weeks:
Organize your physical space
Organize your morning
Organize your school schedule
Organize your records
Organize your projects
Organize your kitchen

Congratulations to…Tammy from Garden Glimpses!!! You are the winner of a $170 prize package loaded with organizational products!! Prizes include:

• A $30.00 Gift Certificate to In the Hands of a Child
• A $25.00 Gift Certificate to CurrClick
• The Schoolhouse Planner by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine ($39.00 value)
• The Master Plan e-book by Julie Forsythe ($39.95 value)
• The Co-op Planner e-book by Julie Forsythe ($19.95 value)
• Organized Kids: Easy Solutions for Clutter-Free Living by Debbie Williams ($14.95 value)
• Kid Chore Organizer by Molly Randolph ($5.00 value)