Top 10 Things I’ve Learned From Parenting Teens

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1.  Pick your battles.  When it comes down to it, the most important things involve their safety and their faith.  If your teen doesn’t want to wear a jacket when it’s 30 degrees out, she will either be cold, or it won’t bother her. Don’t let it bother you. She won’t die.

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10 Things to Think About When Friends Stop Homeschooling

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Recently Lee Binz, aka The HomeScholar, posted a link to an old post of hers about When Friends Stop Homeschooling.  I’ve seen it before, but something about it hit me today.  Her post is basically a “what to do” about your own family when a friend or friends stop homeschooling.  What she doesn’t touch

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B90Days Day 20 Update: Ten Mighty Men (Minus 1)

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Here I am, three weeks into reading the Bible in 90 Days again, and the Lord never fails to bring things to me that I didn’t notice the last time through.  It’s amazing how deep the Word goes, and how as we go deeper still we find layers of meaning and layers containing themes

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Top 10 Books I ‘Must Finish’ or ‘Want to Read’ for 2011

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I saw a post the other day, and I’m sorry but I can’t remember whose blog it was on, but it was a list of all the books the writer had begun reading in 2010 and wanted to finish this year.  I thought that I was the only person who had a stack

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10 DOs and DON’Ts for Christmas Spending

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1. DO Make a list of everyone you are buying gifts for, and a couple of ideas for each person, and take it with you when you go shopping. Stick with your list.

2. DO Pay cash. You will be more careful of what you spend, and what you buy. Even

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