Strength and Beauty at Home: Helping women thrive at home while trying to manage their "homefront" well.
My friend, Jessica Pigg, has written a beautiful post about her and her husband’s foster care experience. I am so excited that she is sharing that with us today. I hope it will bless you like it did me. Who knows, it may even be how God leads you and your family to become foster […] Read more…
There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to get your child to read a book that they just don’t want to read. This can be especially challenging when it is a school book that they must read, regardless of if they want to or not. I have been blessed with one child who can’t read enough, […] Read more…
Even though this weekly series is focused on mostly good things that happen throughout the week, I want to start this week’s favorites by sharing how something that was not so good turned into to something beautiful, making it one of my favorite things. Anxiety was a real struggle this week. Yes, I struggle with […] Read more…
Picture this with me…a family sitting around the table together, the parents are doing their best to get their kids excited about learning Scripture by hiding God’s Word in their heart. Pretend you are a fly on the wall and you overhear this conversation… “Okay, we are going to practice Genesis 1:1. Are you ready? […] Read more…
Papers flying, workbooks getting lost under beds, lists on loose papers finding their way to the trash can, assignments covered in coffee or food, books stacked high and unorganized, lesson plans that don’t seem as productive as I need them to be. Total chaos! I cannot function when there’s massive chaos. It can get pretty […] Read more…
I started this Friday series last week and it was so fun to recap the week and put into writing what my favorite things were during the week. I have been taking notes this week making sure I share all the good stuff with you. I don’t know about you, but if I don’t write […] Read more…
*I am not an affiliate for this company, nor am I receiving any compensation for this post.* Recently, I learned about an educational website called Education.com Our family does not use online education classes as a part of our homeschool curriculum, however, my children do enjoy educational online games and printouts for extra practice. This […] Read more…
Yesterday I shared why I decided on using a large, mega binder for my homeschool command center this year and I shared half of the contents. (Click here to read part 1.) Today I want to finish sharing the content, by telling you about my last two sections of the binder. Just as a recap […] Read more…
How do you organize your homeschool material? Do you have a command center that consists of multiple binders, notebooks, planners, or files? What helps you stay organized and confident to tackle each school day? In years past, my mode of organization was to have multiple binders for each area of our homeschool and family life. […] Read more…
Our weeks are filled with so much activity, sometimes so much, that the week slips through our hands before we can say “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. When Friday arrives, all the hands go up, everyone breathes a long sigh of relief, and cheerfully welcomes a restful weekend. With our family’s jam-packed weeks, I sometimes forget to stop and […] Read more…