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8 Tips for Flying With Kids

04.27.2013 by Dawn // Leave a Comment

Taking a trip is an adventure, and preparing for it has proven to be an adventure all its own. This week we’re off on our very first family vacation EVER. We’ve done RV trips and roughing-it camping trips, but never a real, honest to goodness vacation. Some friends talked us into taking advantage of cheap […]

Categories // Home Tags // family vacation, flying with kids, travel

5 Tips for Seeking a Mentor for Your Teen

03.25.2013 by Dawn // Leave a Comment

Tips for Seeking a Mentor For Your Teen

Teenagers give lots of mixed messages, and often it seems like the last person they want to talk to is a parent. Often it seems they want nothing to do with any adults, but if you look around, you may notice there are one or more adults they actually do connect really well with. Sometimes […]

Categories // Home Tags // mentoring, parenting, teenagers, tough love

Weekly Wrap-Up: Of Computers and Chickens

02.01.2013 by Dawn //

It’s been for.ever since I’ve posted a Homeschool Weekly Wrap-up, and so I figure, why not? 🙂 This week has been pretty nice, homeschooling-wise. Actually, since we started again after Christmas, it’s been going really, really well. Weird. I know. This week the boys have been happily working on a (gaming-related) project for school. They […]

Categories // Home, Homeschooling Tags // chickens, Homeschool Weekly Wrap-Up, tech stuff

Sucked Into a Good Book

11.19.2012 by Dawn // Leave a Comment

How easy it is for me to be sucked into a good book. A tale of fiction, wound with suspense and characters, strung word by careful word by the author…. Bliss. Nonfiction is not that way for me. It is difficult for me to maintain attention to. When I can take notes in the margins, […]

Categories // Home Tags // Blogging, reading, writing

Journey of a Shoebox: Collection Center to Processing

11.14.2012 by Dawn // Leave a Comment

Journey of a Shoebox: Collection Center to Processing

Operation Christmas Child is an organization working to reach kids for Christ with a simple gift of a shoebox. I had a chance to sit down and chat with Diane Rice, the local Network Collection Coordinator for Operation Christmas Child here. I wrote about what happens to your shoebox after you drop it off at your local […]

Categories // Faith, Home Tags // family ministry, journey of a shoebox, OCC shoebox donations, OCCGiving, Operation Christmas Child, Where do OCC shoeboxes go

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Dawn is a retired homeschooling Momma of 19 years, hospital CNA with a totally self-taught geeky side. She lives in Eastern WA with her husband, the youngest 2 of their 6 kids and 2 yappy pomeranians.

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