5 Habits to Show Kids Love
I’m not the most naturally affectionate or tenderhearted mother. As much as I do love my children dearly, it is hard for me to remember to show kids love
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Building up women as capable, cheerful homemakers, one episode at a time.
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5 Sanity-Savers for Homeschooling Moms
As homeschooling moms, our sanity is vital and often at-risk, isn’t it? Here are five strategies I have for keeping my mental and emotional buffer padded. Homeschool Mom Sanity
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5 Essential Pieces of Our Homeschool Day
I love to make lists. I even have lists of the lists I have made and want to make. So, why not share all (well, some) of those lists during
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Habits: The Secret for Smooth and Easy Days?
Who doesn’t want a life that is smooth and easy? Years ago, when I had only quite small children and I had immersed myself in books on educational theory,
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Learn to Love What Must Be Done
Repetition in homemaking isn’t a failure of productivity—it is how we reflect God’s sustaining work. Start small with a brain dump to reset your mindset.
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How to stay sane as a stay-at-home mom
Now is the time when we all start organizing our stuff, buying new supplies, and preparing for another fresh start: a new school year. I always get ambitious about how
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Interval Planning: Don't Skip the Rest Period
Breaking up your year into intervals is a simple way to sharpen your focus and stay engaged with projects and the things that need to be done to keep life
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How to get motivated to clean house
Many of us are task-driven. We want to see things done, accomplished, finished. This is what the world tells us is productivity. In this view, homemaking 101 would simply be
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Interval Training Strategy: Making an interval plan work for you
Use the theory behind interval training to maximize your planning effectiveness. Just as runners train and gain strength and endurance by running in short, intense bursts and then going at
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Realistic Goal Setting: Interval Training
Often when we plan out our goals, we think in year-long chunks of time, either personal goals in January or academic goals in August. If you’ve ever done this,
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Jennifer Fulwiler on Pursuing Creativity and Beating Overwhelm
I had the honor of interviewing Jennifer Fulwiler of Conversion Diary this week, and she shared some insights that I think are very helpful to our lives as mothers. It’
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All of Life Is Repentance
Fortiter fideliter forsan feliciter, or Repentance part of the Education Is for Life series This series is rather ill-timed and ill-spaced. Honestly, these posts have actually required research of me,
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