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Feeling Forgotten?

Do you ever feel forgotten in a room full of people? Do you ever wonder if your children have felt this way? The thought has crossed my mind. Not because I’m wonderfully intuitive (I’m rather thick, actually), but...

The Price of Professional Development

Please welcome guest contributor Andrea to Heart of the Matter! We are sure you will all be blessed as she reminds us of the importance of taking care of ourselves! Thank you Andrea. There is an old phrase called ‘Mother...

Be the Beauty That You Are…. QUICKLY!

I know that one too many times my husband would come home to find me in complete disarray; my hair bobby pinned to my head to keep it out of my eyes, no make-up – well unless you count the juice mustache, and an ensemble...

Homesteading? Me? No, absolutely not me.

Are you a homesteader? Are you crazy? Or smarter than the rest of us? I didn’t start out down the crazy-path willingly. It’s come a little at a time. Okay, to be brutally honest, my dad did always say that I was born...

Menu Help For Busy Moms

Even though we tend to be home a lot home schooling and taking care of our own, I find it hard sometimes to find time to prepare and make healthy meals for my family. For me,I need to make a plan and if I don’t have one, we...

Bad, Bad Cup!

Big Daddy comes in and interrupts me while I am in class (on-line). He seems to be really upset about what he has just discovered. In comes a nearly naked Pretty Pink Princess. I ask her, “What happened to your...

Teach Your Kid About the Internet Before the Internet Does

Recently, a parent on the home school support e-group asked us all, what do you do, what routines/products/procedures do you use to keep your kids safe online? The answers were astoundingly underwhelming. The number one way...

Schedules

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Time management is one area that greatly affects my ability to teach my children at home. I wrote in an earlier post about...

Homeschool Community and Fellowship

When I first began home schooling, I didn’t really know anyone who home schooled their children. I knew 2 families, and one of them was and is my dearest friend ever, but it was just us. Now this was ok mind you, but then she...

Take Back the Hours

A common complaint among homeschooling moms is that there are not enough hours in the day. Busy schedules, loaded with events and appointments, can easily turn homeschoolers into road scholars, leaving important things undone....