Category Archives: Housekeeping
“Review Week”
A few years ago I started planning a week ?off? into the lesson plans for the year. At the time, we were schooling year round and it made sense to take a week every six weeks, for extra errand running, … Continue reading
Posted in homeschooling, Housekeeping, Life, Organization, preschool educcation, Schedule
Tagged homeschooling, housekeeping, Life, White space
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Time Management
Looking at the calendar the other day and realized that we only have about six weeks at home before we start school again along with fall activities. I say “at home” because we have a wedding to travel to at … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, homeschooling, Housekeeping, Life, Schedule
Tagged teaching children to work, teaching moments, Time Management
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Job Failing
One of the things that happens frequently around here is jobs done halfway and left in hopes that no one will notice! Sometimes (most of the time) this is an attitude problem as much as anything and simply calling … Continue reading
Posted in Discipleship, Housekeeping, Life, Uncategorized
Tagged dawdling cure, intentional parenting, jobs, Parenting, teaching children to work
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The Past Few Weeks…
Have been a whirlwind of activity! Home Educators Association of Virginia Convention in Virginia– one full day of driving to get there (the children did very well and made traveling really enjoyable for the most part. A day and a … Continue reading
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The Little Things
So for the past couple of weeks I’ve been doing a lot of sitting on the couch and feeding the baby! Perfectly normal post-partum activities but not very conducive to keeping up with the housekeeping! The first week I had … Continue reading
The Twentieth Day
The big children asked me what day they should be on in their devotional books today and I realized as I counted the days from the Third Sunday in Lent that we are halfway through Lent. This week has been … Continue reading
How-To Feed Two Families With One Chicken (and have some leftovers)
The other day I decided to cook a broiler as I’m trying to eat down the store of food in the freezer! A friend of mine had had a weekend of sick children so I thought I’d stretch that bird … Continue reading
Show Me: Bookshelves
First of all: If you have enough bookshelves please let me know how you achieved that! Mine are rather disorganized at the moment. Actually I’ve been saying since we moved here a year ago that I was going to organize … Continue reading
Show Me: Favorite Organizational Tools
This is a fun link up begun by a friend of mine- a different theme ?for every week all built around the idea of glimpses of each other’s lives! I’m a list kind of a girl, and I generate … Continue reading
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Tagged organizing, planning and organization, Show Me
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