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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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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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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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The Garden of God’s Planting

It has been one year since we experienced an extremely painful departure of fellowship with friends that had become as precious to us as our own flesh and blood family. We did not want to part ways with these dear ones because we did not think division was necessary. But we were asked to leave […]

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Hitherto hath the Lord helped us…

“Twenty years or seventy, and yet, hitherto hath the Lord helped us! Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea, in honor, in dishonor, in perplexity, in joy, in trial, in triumph, in prayer, in temptation, hitherto hath the Lord helped us! We delight to look […]

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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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Counting the Omer – FREE printable calendar & tutorial

As we prepare our seders for a Passover remembrance that will be held almost exclusively in homes this year while the world is in the midst of a pandemic, we have been given a powerful chance to reflect on the deeper meaning of being delivered from the plagues of Egypt. The isolation of this season […]

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Indomitable Cheerfulness, the Oil in My Lamp

Isaiah 61:10 I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. Peels of laughter can be […]

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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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