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What Do You Have in Your Hand?

I want to share with you a question that was paradigm changing for me. It is this: “What do you have in your hand?” What do you have, right now, that you can give, use, steward. This is the question God posed to scruffy sheep herder Moses after forty years of herding nature’s “animal most likely to accidentally kill...

Cultivating Possibility

Posted by Kimberly | 0 comments

I was alone with my youngest son on a blustery Wednesday, thought we were enjoying a dose of cozy silence until I notice the symptoms of boredom surfacing. Honestly, I assumed that the child’s pure imagination would entertain Søren so that I could tackle another never-ending stacks of work, but soon realized this was...

Seeing Creation Through the Eyes of a Child

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Among the many and varied reasons for choosing to teach our children at home, right at the top was our desire to give them a Biblical world view. Down the line somewhere under that was the desire to not bore them with learning. When we brought those two desires together with the subject of science, I was a bit apprehensive...

What My Children Teach Me

Posted by Belinda | 0 comments

Recently, a follower of mine “tweeted” (twittered? Twitted?) a link to a homeschool conference video. The particular topic of the video was, “What did Your Kids Teach You this Past Homeschool Year?” As humbling a thought as this is for many of us who pour hours (not to mention dollars!) into curriculum and who sweat...

The easiest and funnest way to attract birds

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This is a very fun and easy “any time of the year” project. We have been making these since my son was a toddler. Spread a thin layer of peanut butter around an empty toilet paper or paper towel holder Roll it around in bird seed Press hard so that lots of bird seed coats the peanut butter. Slide the roll onto a...