Category Archives: Life
And Some Days You Blitz The House
Because sometimes every room looks like this! Even though the cleaning lady has been coming every week, and theoretically her cleaning the downstairs is supposed to mean I have more time to keep things organized and keep up … Continue reading
“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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Of Hectic Schedules, Activities, and Life in a Circus
Hmmph! Seems like a long time since I sat down to type here. Actually…it has been a long time…a couple of months at least and that last post was rather short. Life has been busy, no doubt (and more on … Continue reading
Posted in homeschooling, Life, preschool educcation, Reflections
Tagged homeschooling, housekeeping, Life
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Stay Away!
Respect is a big deal these days and so often it just means that I choose to stay away from those who disagree with me. Avoiding my neighbor isn’t really loving him, though, and loving our neighbor is what each … Continue reading
Posted in Encouragement, homeschooling, Life, spiritual formation
Tagged HEAV, homeschool co-op, homeschooling
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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
Quiet Days
There’s been a lot of this going on these days. Taking pictures of a sleeping baby, or just watching her sleep. Slowly returning things to normal. Today that meant making a batch of bread since we’ve used up the … Continue reading
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