When people ask me if I felt prepared for adult life after being homeschooled, I’m never quite sure how to respond. Does my current role as a wife and mother come easy to me? No. Neither do many aspects of maintaining a home (I have a mountain of unfolded laundry on the couch to prove […]
We are so thrilled to finally be able to introduce to you our long expected arrival! After several months of labor (yes, you read that correctly), Pro-Life Pregnancy Tests is here at last, and we couldn’t be more excited!Wait. You didn’t actually think we had our Baby yet, did you? Such a tease. I’m sorry; our real […]
Blog posts are hard to write when you don’t have much content to work with, and this is one of them; however, I promised I’d share what I disliked about being homeschooled and what I would do differently with my own children as part of the series, Confessions Of A Homeschool Graduate, so here goes. I’ve spent […]
A person with a university degree or a college diploma is no more respectable than a person without. At the end of the day, it’s not a piece of paper reflecting years of study that makes a person successful; it’s how well they use the talents God has blessed them within the service of His […]
The first step to becoming an excellent manager of your home is to understand your role and why it is so important. As a whole, our culture dismisses the impact of a faithful homemaker and constructs stereotypes that are outlandishly opposed to our exemplary in Proverbs 31. For instance, note who gets attacked when one young […]
Homeschooling is hard work, not because teaching academics is so taxing (that’s the easy part!), but because it can be mentally and physically exhausting to be needed by many little people for so many different things in a day. Selfishness in my own life often rears its ugly head and threatens to rob me of […]
n Part 3 of this series, I emphasized the importance of keeping our priorities aligned as God desires (God, Spouse, Children, House) and listed 15 Good Things I DON’T Do so I can give them adequate attention. You cannot schedule long, lingering hugs with your husband, heart-to-heart’s with your children, or circumstances that bring you to your […]
Do you know what’s happening at the end of this month, Lord willing? One of my favorite events of the year is taking place: Ontario’s annual homeschool convention! I’ve looked forward to it every year for the past 13 years, and wouldn’t miss it for the world …unless some life-altering event (such as the early arrival of […]
I debated whether or not to include my daily schedule as part of the Keeping A Growing Home Series because really, it probably won’t work for anyone else; our circumstances aren’t the same. However, several women who are contemplating homeschooling have written and asked to see how it can actually fit into their day in addition to […]
I can hardly believe he’s here. I can’t stop looking at him, our Ezekiel John. ‘Ezekiel’ means “God strengthens.” ‘John’ (after my Dad and Brad’s late Opa) means “God is gracious.” There couldn’t be a more fitting name for our 5th child (my 6th pregnancy): an 8lb. 12 oz. bundle of sweet boy! Ezekiel’s pregnancy came […]