You may recall my unfortunate post here. As I mentioned, planning out our meals was the first place I wanted change because it would bring the greatest relief. This past week was my first week designing the change I wanted in our home. We sat down at dinner one night and made a list of […]
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Everything came to a head. It was as if God’s grace disappeared all of a sudden. Maybe it was the extreme heat that led to dehydration that led to poor milk supply that led to fussy baby and the need to nurse all day long, leaving everything else undone.Maybe it was the un-pluggable milk duct.Maybe
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I finally got around to finishing my YR4 daughter’s schedule for Term 1. Most of the work was in figuring out how our day would flow and then splitting up the readings, particularly Robinson Crusoe. I have the Junior Deluxe Edition, which has no chapters, making it very time consuming to split the readings for
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My, this blog has been sorely neglected! Time is just an extremely rare commodity these days, but all for good reasons 🙂 A while back I mentioned I was reading the book “A Mother’s Rule of Life, How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul” by Holly Pierlot. I’ve been enjoying
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Alicia, one of our nature study group mothers, who moved away to New Mexico about a year ago came to visit recently. It was so nice to see her and her four adorable girls, it was just like she had never left. She joined us for our annual blackberry picking nature day and by the
One of the most common questions new homeschooling Moms have is “What does a day look like?” I remember my stomach churning in knots the summer prior to my oldest starting Kindergarten. Everything I had read about the Charlotte Mason method resonated deeply with me – treating the child as a person, living books, not
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Psalm 46 God is our refuge and strength,a very present help in trouble.Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,though its waters roar and foam,though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of
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I had hoped to post here about our monthly meeting topic of Rigor. Unfortunately, we were hit by the stomach flu and missed the discussion, which I heard was wonderful. We also had a dead rat, discovered by its lovely stench, that had been festering in the wall behind our downstairs bathroom removed this week.
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