How to meal plan for a month - or more!
As the end of the school semester drew near, the holidays drew near, the end of the year drew near, I stopped menu planning. I just never took the time
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Mystie Winckler
Mystie, homeschooling mom of 5, shares the life lessons she's learned and the grace she's received from Christ. She is author of Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done
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Planning for Real Life
It’s a new year and that means time for new goals. It’s irresistible. And I don’t recommend resisting. I love new year goals and resolutions, but they
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Top 5 Books of 2014
Once again, I read fewer books than I had hoped in a year: 32. I read some really excellent ones, though, and that’s what counts. However, I don’t
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What Does Organization Mean?
We talk a lot about getting organized, but do we stop to think about what we mean? What is it that we want when we say we’re working on
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Dealing with Post-Christmas Chaos
"Overcome post-holiday clutter with these 3 simple steps to manage Christmas chaos. Learn how to easily organize, declutter, and restore order in your home after the holiday season."
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Classical Education for Free People
A book review of Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition by Karen Glass. I loved Karen Glass’ book, Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition. It truly
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Important Classical Education Principles
Explore classical education principles and see how philosophy shapes your homeschool methods, curriculum choices, and family life.
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A logistics hack that improved our homeschool mornings
It’s funny how sometimes a simple solution really hits the spot and solves more problems than you hoped it would. I found one of those these last couple weeks,
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An Interval Plan for the Holidays
I’m a proponent of making short-term plans and goals – ones that can be tracked and kept top-of-mind easily. I call it ‘interval planning’ because I think it’s like
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A little way for real life impact
I finished The Little Way of Ruthie Leming by Rod Dreher this weekend and really enjoyed it. Until this year, I’ve never really read memoirs, but so far I’
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CM-Style Housekeeping
I feel somewhat sheepish being the one to write this post. Charlotte Mason is one of my favorite education authors, but I am not really a “Charlotte Mason” homeschooler. For
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Why should we make plans, anyway?
At our last live Q&A chat for Simplified Organization eCourse, the recurring topic seemed to be plans and how they usually don’t work out as planned. When
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