Top 10 Books of 2013
I was hoping to read 52 books this year, but I didn’t quite make it. I read 48 books, which is still better than I’ve done in the
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Homemaking Encouragement for Christian Moms
Life Is Exercise: Start slowly and under advisement.
Some mornings I do an exercise video first thing in the morning, when I both want to feel on top of it and feel fat. I was tapping my foot
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Living from a state of rest
Cum dignitate otium, or Rest The Education is for Life Series This principle was another where I had to do my own searching for an applicable Latin motto. I could
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Life Is Exercise: Running requires endurance
You are a runner, running the race of life. It is not a competitive race, but it is a race. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud
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Daily Faithfulness
The Latin motto festina lente, make haste slowly, is solid wisdom we need not only in our homeschools, but also in all of life.
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Life Is Exercise: Running requires training
Life is like a race, which means it is something we must train for. Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives
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Choose what is good.
Virtue grows through repeated action, repentance, and perseverance, not through maintaining an image of having everything together.
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Life is Exercise: It's ok to be tired.
You are a runner. Running requires effort and makes you tired and out of breath. That is a sign that you’re doing it, that you’re moving, not that
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The Simple Life.
The principle of multum non multa means choosing depth over distraction. Don't manage dozens of tasks; focus your energy on what matters most.
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What Makes a Productive Day?
So, last week felt like a rough, terrible week. However, the school checklists got done, the house hadn’t really fallen apart, and we’d had no major disasters. Really,
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Why messy homeschool days still matter
Homeschool mom encouragement for messy days full of lessons, laughter, resistance, virtue, and real learning around the kitchen table.
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Make a Digital Home Management Binder
It’s a simple fact: We need to track the details of running our households in order to maintain sanity and reliability. Our job isn’t to impress others, but
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