I’m not a morning person, but Mondays are usually the exception. I wake up on Mondays with big plans, and not just lesson plans and menu plans. Mondays I am brave. I do new things. I do the same-old, same-old things better. How can you be brave today, this first Monday of a new month?…
Held: Learning to Live in God’s Grip by Lee and Sandra Peoples Can Be Purchased: On CreateSpace On Amazon For Kindle/Kindle Apps Invitation to Read Our Book Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7
January has been a full month. Mostly full of snow. And days out of school. And finalizing adoption paperwork. It’s been so full, I’m joining up with Emily at Chatting at the Sky to share what we’ve learned. She’s currently in Uganda with Compassion, so you’ll want to be sure and click over to read…
They say it takes 21 days to solidify a new habit. Well, it’s January 23 and I don’t have any new habits formed. I’ve only achieved my ideal day a couple times. Last week Lee was down at SEBTS for a week of doctorate classes. David and I did a J-term unit study on Harry…
If you only read far enough in the Narnia series to meet Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, you haven’t met one of my favorite characters. Oh, he certainly isn’t my favorite at the beginning of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. He’s annoying, mean, selfish, and lazy. He’s also greedy, and this greed leads him…
When we’re around extended family and friends we don’t see often, one of their favorite questions to ask is how school is going. Our eight-year-old David reminds them, “I’m homeschooled” and usually the focus shifts away from him and onto me. Not everyone asks why we homeschool. Our family does enough weird things (like moving…
