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Synonym Rolls Like Grammar Used to Make

One of my dearest friends lived across the street from us when we were both newly minted homeschooling mamas. Wanting to do everything “right,” we scoured the internet, curriculum catalogs, and sought advice at homeschool conferences in order to only purchase the best of everything for our budding little geniuses. While our kids played back […]

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Using Google Forms for Comprehension Questions

We generally do not use written workbooks in later grades for any sort of reading comprehension questions as we often have multiple students working through material at the same time (meaning I have to read through multiple pages) and most of them would rather type than write by this stage because it is so much […]

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Creating a Multi-Year Curriculum Plan in Google Sheets

If you’re anything like me, you appreciate the ability to get a bird’s eye view of your whole homeschool plan from time to time. It can be very encouraging to know where we’re ultimately headed when we’re daily down in the weeds of Latin verb conjugations and memorizing arithmetic facts. I put together this simple […]

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The peaceful fruit of righteousness

Hebrews 12:11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Being a person who wholeheartedly appreciates compassion, parenting my children into their young adult years has been fraught with some very painful moments. At multiple points […]

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Let us not grow weary of doing good

This benediction comes to us from the book of Galatians as Paul exhorts believers to be mindful that they sow to the Spirit and thus reap life. We will reap a good harvest in due season if we are diligent and do not give up.

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Caramel drinks and reading books

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” – Frederick Douglas There is an ache of sadness to the goodbyes I must make to the books and materials I’ve now been privileged to use with all seven of my children. I have caught myself multiple times in the past months thinking, “I should […]

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She does not eat the bread of idleness

2019, here we come! Word for the year Our family word for this year is oikonomos, which is translated from the Greek as steward. This word is made up of two Greek words. Oikos generally refers to household, abode, dwelling, or clan (i.e. someone’s immediate family and area of influence). Nomos is often translated exclusively as Law but […]

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Favorite ♥ Moments Captivated

For a few years now, Hubby and I have been praying over and selecting a word for the year for our family and homeschooling. There is nothing magical about picking a word as a focus for the year. It can have as much or as little emphasis as a family is willing to give it. […]

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When Simple Isn’t

I love the time of year when I get to reflect on the previous year of schooling and see the growth of the children and myself. Every year we have areas where we hoped for more fruit than what developed, and every year we have areas of unsuspected weakness that turned into opportunities for great […]

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Do hard things

Do not let kindness and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Proverbs 3:3

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The grit of feelings

It’s not often I come across an article referencing Common Core standards that doesn’t mention the catchphrase “grit” and relate it to what we must be building in our kids in the modern world. While I agree with the idea of helping our kids develop perseverance and tenacity – in essence a strong work ethic […]

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Fossils and LEGO

We’ve been doing school through the summer for a few years now, so it’s nothing new to the kids when the sounds of warm weather reach us in our school room, windows open and light breeze beckoning us to bask in the sunshine with our read alouds. By design our schedule is less packed in […]

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What we do for Bible, Worldview, and Discipleship Studies

#teachallthethings There have been many different Bible programs and studies we have done over the years. Some have fallen flat and been a disappointment, a waste of money and time. I won’t focus on those here. I want to share some of the very best resources we’ve found because they are so captivating and have […]

Two Marriage Trails – A Guest Post

I might as well be honest — I hardly feel qualified to write a guest blog in response to “How Embracing Patriarchal Marriage Cured My Anxiety.” After many years of “leading” in my complementarian marriage, my expert advice lends itself more towards what not to do than how to do it right. I am awakening […]

An Honest Review of White Knights & Reviling Wives

I recently finished reading Dr. David Edgington’s book on patriarchal marriage and the epidemic of marriages being destroyed by feminism. I realized by the very last chapter that I am really not the target audience for a book such as this. So I bear that in mind as I write this review. I eagerly purchased […]

How Embracing Patriarchal Marriage Cured My Anxiety

A Third Position? It was in 1988 that the term complementarianism was invented. A declaration on the differing biblical roles of men and women while also an affirmation of their equal worth and value, this concept was meant to be a response to the growing egalitarianism in the church. Patriarchy (literally “father rule”), the most […]

A Psalm for the Festivals

Oh, that I could bear sheaves of grain wave offerings in my armsBear them up to the Temple among a throng of worshippersJoyful break out of dancing, up to Abba’s houseFor the festivalOh, that my heart could rejoice as I pound my grain to fine flourPour over it the costly, pure oil of my sacrificeAnd […]

Tenth Yahrzeit for Joshua Zion

It was ten years ago on this day that my life was turned upside down. I was 18 weeks pregnant with a baby boy. We’d had an early ultrasound and were waiting until the 22 week scan to discover the gender. But I knew in my heart it was a baby brother for Noki. I’d […]

Release into the misunderstanding

There are six strong-minded women around my table, each of them beautiful, different, and a challenge to me every day in many ways. These are my daughters. They are the women I am molding for the generations that will come after me. Their voices desire to be heard, and they want their opinions to be […]