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A Handful of Lessons Learned from Motherhood

As a young woman I certainly didn’t know that my heart would turn towards home. I wanted career and financial security. Who would have thought my greatest desire would become to serve my husband and children? Talk about going against the flow of everything this world screams at us women in our modern times. I think many of...

An Aid for Parents (and Educators) of Boys

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From the founder and director of Green Ivy Consulting comes a book for parents and educators of boys who are disorganized and easily dissuaded from their tasks. That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life is the product of Ana Homayoun’s extensive research...

Autopilot

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On one very, busy day of mine recently, I managed to drive to my destination (which was a good half-hour away) while completely daydreaming. When I pulled up to park, I then realized that I didn’t even consciously drive at all, because I had no idea on how I even got there. How scary is that? I was on autopilot the...

What Do You Have in Your Hand?

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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...

The Impossibility of it All

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It is no mistake that you are a mom. And it is no surprise to hear that Motherhood is a hard job. And yes, there will be days where the task seems more daunting than you bargained. But here’s the thing: the perfect place from which to parent is that place where you are at your lowest, crying out to the Lord, saying,...

It’s Not Because of Me

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I was an arrogant mom when I was a mom of one. From about 6 months old, our firstborn was the picture-perfect child. He was happy, easy-going, smart, and never had a moment of the terrible twos. He held my hand when asked, ate what he was told to eat, was always happy to help, went to bed like a dream, napped well,...

What Your Middle Schooler Wants You to Know

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The tween and teen years are hard. Even at forty years old, I can recall the continual self-doubt, the mirror peeking, the obsession over performance, and the conflicting emotions of those transitional years. It’s hard all over again as the parent of a tween to see my daughter struggle through this stage. Every child is...

What Love Looks Like

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You’ve seen the movie: the music swells in the background, the lights darken around the edges with one bright, piercing ray of sun shining in the center of the screen, while a perfectly manicured, make-upped and hair-dooed couple embrace, vowing that *this* is forever. Or maybe you’ve seen this one: the house is...

Holiday Helpings

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Here’s my confession: Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. Naturally, I have my reasons. First of all, I think that after 22 years of school it became more about completing major homework projects than it was about gratefulness or family bonding. Secondly, the whole day centers around preparing, eating and then...

Are You Kidding Me?

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“Are you kidding me?” This has got to be one of my all-time favorite things to say. Said to express cuteness or the exasperation in motherhood…it’s a word that says it all. I am a homeschool mother of seven and I will confess that at times when all of them are gathered in a room with something to say, it...