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Our Week in Homeschool- 4/1 to 4/5
This week in our homeschool preschool we did a fun “Transportation” theme on top of our typical worksheets and practice. I cut shapes in various sizes and colors and laid them out along with glue and a...
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Getting His Feet Wet- 6 Ways I Nudge My Extremely Shy Child
I wrote recently about my 4-year-old being extremely shy and about his challenges in sports. He definitely feels uncomfortable in crowds of people and his biggest issue is with communicating and/or...
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Don’t Throw Out Those Plastic Eggs!
Two egg hunts and four boys later, we are often left with lots and lots of plastic eggs after Easter. The past couple of years I have tried to recycle the eggs in fun ways for the kiddos. Egg Matching...
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Our Week in Homeschool 4/8 – 4/12
This week in homeschool we ended up being able to carry over a little bit more of our “transportation” theme from last week when we showed up for story time at the library and their focus for the day...
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Our Week in Homeschool- 4/15 – 4/19
This week in homeschool preschool we continued with our “Spring” theme! We loved taking a trip to Walmart and getting some planting supplies. William enjoyed picking out what flowers he would grow....
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Our Week in Homeschool- 4/22 – 4/26
We started the week by celebrating Earth Day, and making these cool and easy little worlds using paper plates and dot art. I was so proud of how carefully William examined the pictures we found online...
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Immersing Myself In My Worries–And Not My Bible
Our Pastor reminded us yesterday, “When you follow God authentically and intentionally, people will be drawn to God as well”. Makes sense, right? So, I had to really look at the way my week had gone...
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Our Week in Homeschool 4/29 – 5/3
This past week we continued with our “Spring” themed unit by learning about Ducks and Frogs. During our weekly story time at the library we read some books about ducks and the boys made a duck craft....
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Bringing a Girl into Our World
The Hubby and I at our baby shower–it tickles me to see him holding those little pink shoes! =) A couple of days ago I had another ultrasound to double-check the sizing of our baby and I couldn’t help...
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Homeschool Pre-school- Our Bird Unit
Okay, while I realize this is way over due, I still wanted to give you a run down of the couple of weeks we spent on our bird unit. It was a lot of fun and proved to be very educational! We talked...
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Working From Home (with kids!) Without Going Crazy
Although I am truly blessed, I don’t know if I realized just how much “work” working from home, let alone being a stay at home mom would really be. I love it, and I wouldn’t change a thing, but I am...
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My Daddy’s Girls- There’s Room for Both of Us!
My Father happened to drop by today, as he seems to be doing a lot now that there’s a baby girl in the house. It’s kind of cute how he finds any excuse to come over lately. And yet, at the same time I...
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He Ruined My Day
In retrospect, the funniest thing about today is how good I felt about it upon waking up. You see, today I was supposed to attend a social for my Women’s Group at Church. It was a Mad Hatter’s Tea...
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I Used to Be..
This lovely piece was submitted by a guest poster, Jaymie Schwartz. (You can read Jaymie’s bio below.) I used to be smart. Graduated 8th in my high school class and Magna Cum Laude with my bachelors...
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I am Thankful
The month of December seemed to creep up on me out of nowhere. When I realized that Thanksgiving was over and it was now time to throw myself into our yearly Christmas traditions I considered just...
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Our OCC Experience
One of the most important things I can pass along to my children is instilling in them the desire to serve. We try to think of ways to reach out all year-long, of course. But, the holidays present...
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I Ran Away From My Family Today
Let’s just say this isn’t the post I had scheduled for today… I ran away from my family today. I hate to admit that to you, but it’s true. And, I know that I can’t just share the good stuff with you....
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My 3 Keys to Staying Sane With a Handful of Kids
It seems I am always being asked… How do you do it all? How do you keep it together? How is it your house always seems pretty clean when we happen to stop by? I plan to write more about just how I...
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Approaching a New Year with Contentment
For the first time ever in my adult life I find myself approaching a new year without a desperate hope for change. In the past, the new year came about and I was so relieved at the prospect of just...
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Our Week in Homeschool 4/8 – 4/12
This week in homeschool we ended up being able to carry over a little bit more of our “transportation” theme from last week when we showed up for story time at the library and their focus for the day...
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