Giving the Best

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This year Christmas is as crazy and as fun as ever! I have three boys, ages 6, 3, and 1. Buying gifts for them has been extra fun this year for me until about last week. Reading through many of my favorite blogs I realized I was too focused on giving my

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The Mothering Commandments

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The Paradoxical Commandments, often attributed to Mother Theresa, were written in 1968 by Dr. Kent M. Keith. Mother Theresa liked them so much she posted them on the wall of her orphanage in Calcutta.  This is my slant on them from a mothering perspective.

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Intentional Living

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It often feels like life happens, and homeschooling happens, and we are just along for the ride. If there’s one thing I have learned from 13 years of homeschooling it’s that it can’t really just happen. As the old saying goes, if we fail to plan, we plan to fail.

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Death in the Family

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It’s not fun, or pretty. If I had written this post prior to leaving for the Relevant Conference, it surely would have been about something else. Right now though, this is where I am. I received a phone call that rocked my world, just 12 hours before leaving for Relevant. Now as I

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Finding Friendships & a Giveaway

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As homeschoolers, we take on all of the responsibilities of our children’s education, including the social aspects. I am talking about the “S” word, yes, but there is a different view of it when we’re discussing children with special needs.

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