During the holidays, our homeschool became less exacting. We focused more on cleaning, decorating, preparing gifts and cookies, than on letters and numbers. So it was with great surprise when this week I pulled out my son’s Kindergarten book to find it DONE. I went through it and was overjoyed to discover that he had [...]

My husband and I have discussed learning languages for a while now for our homeschool, and for ourselves as well. We are most familiar with the Rosetta Stone program. But since we are oddballs, in every sense of the word, we do not run Microsoft or Mac on our PCs. We run linux. And while [...]

Many times I have been asked, “Why do you homeschool?” I understand that for many, the thought of homeschooling their children never occurred to them. Public schooling is so normalized, so convenient, so status quo. And after all, the school system is held to high and lofty standards regarding our children’s education and safety while [...]

My family has been trying to slowly replace our tv consumption for other more productive endeavors. To this end, we have obtained some children’s games. We have played Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, Hi Ho Cherry-o, and Garanimals 1-2-3. Most games for children are so PAINFUL for adults. Sometimes we have found ourselves reading the directions [...]

I have a friend. A dear sweet woman, who loves the Lord and loves her family, and serves both with all her strength and heart. A strong, brave woman who loudly supports the rights of women to birth their children as they choose, and feed their children with the warmth and fullness of the breasts [...]

Our family has begun a new tradition when it comes to holidays.  For the last few years we just walked the road that seemed set for us.  Accepting all the gifts showered upon us and our children, wading through the wrapping paper and dealing with lost perspective and selfish attitudes in the post-holiday wake. Last [...]

It’s been awhile since I posted. I’d like to say I was on vacation or hard at work doing inspiring and amazing things. But… I haven’t been. I’ve been sitting at home with pregnancy exhaustion and nausea. And then… over the weekend, my two sweet babes came down with croup. Over the past few weeks [...]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, [...]

Ladies Against Feminism: Promoting Beautiful Womanhood have written a beautiful and thought provoking blog ~ A Dream Deferred. I consider it thoughtfully, as I recognize that for the last couple of weeks… maybe months… maybe years… I have looked back at my own goals and dreams with regret. I have this baggage that I have [...]

My husband and I are making some changes this week… month… year. Fortunately we were already headed in, what we feel, was the right direction. Garden, Exercise, Scheduling, Family Prayer and Reading. Garden: Our 40′x40′ plot of dirt is taking shape. It is taking us ALOT longer than we thought to get our planting done. [...]