Is Your Homeschool too Heavy on the School?
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It started early this year. As in, really early. On our first day of Christmas vacation (which was, blessedly, the day before Thanksgiving since we take all of December off), I found myself sighing, “Only five weeks ’til we start again!” I tried to keep my great attitude to myself. But now that January has...
Dear Homeschool Mama
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Dear Homeschool Mama, It’s been a long year. 2011 is almost over. You’ve spent much of it at home. You’ve taught math lessons (over and over and over …) and learned more about grammar than you ever wanted to know. You’ve worked on character training as you’ve helped little ones make beds and older ones clear...
Christmas: A Time to Rest
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In our house, Thanksgiving dinner is a big deal. Like thousands of others, my table will groan under pounds of turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, gravy, and way too many pies. We will pass platters and refill plates and someone will probably spill something. We’ve gotten to the point where we don’t bother saying, “So, what...
What Do We Do With the Dark?
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I saw him across the park as I scanned the area like a mama bear protecting her cubs. Many years I’ve watched for danger as my children blissfully play. Playgrounds at restaurants, swing sets at parks, lakes on nature trails; all suspect until mama feels like it’s safe. This park we’ve visited many times, and I’m not a...
Who’s Looking for You?
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You know things are bad when you want to throw in the towel. And the calendar heading only reads … September. Or worse yet … August. I had some great plans for this summer, as perhaps many of you did. Looking around the house back in May, I knew there was just too much stuff in too little room. Books, clothes,...
Being a Homeschool Mom Means My Life is Not My Own
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Today I was surprised to find in my email, a request from an editor of our local paper. Citing a current argument about busing for magnet school students, he asked if I cared to send him my thoughts regarding busing, magnet schools, or what sacrifices I’d made to educate my children. I thought I’d pass along what I sent...
Are You Doing Enough?
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Twice this week I’ve had the privilege of having heart-to-heart phone calls with precious homeschool moms. I call it a privilege, of course, because phone calls are not something I get to enjoy very often, in my usually noisy house! In both cases, these moms expressed a secret fear … that somehow, they just weren’t doing...
How do you do it all?
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As a mother of eight, I hear that question a lot. It usually garners a smile, a shake of the head, and sometimes I reply, “I usually don’t!” Come on over and I’ll show you my piles: laundry to be put in, dishes to be put away, and papers to be filed. Every mom of more than one knows how it feels to be overwhelmed by the...
Royal Weddings – Who Cares, Anyway?
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It was Friday morning, April 29th, 2011. The alarm clock went off at 4:45 am. I brewed vanilla chai tea, set out the blueberry scones, butter and strawberry jam, and turned on the television. BBC America, of course. What a sight! Soldiers on horseback wore giant plumed hats. Crowds lined the streets, waving signs,...
The Rose Garden Myth . . . or is it?
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This week in my Classical Conversations class, we read a chapter in Josh McDowell’s book Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door which was entitled, “Exposing the Rose Garden Myth.” It was all about how sometimes people think that when they come to Christ, it should make everything easy; that life turns simple and nice...
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