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Tending the hearth & homeschool even in absence

It’s 4:30 a.m. on a Monday morning. I am pulling on my jacket and heading out the door to go with my husband to the bus station, where he’ll ride an express bus to the airport and fly out to the East coast for a week-long work trip. I won’t see him again until Friday. […]

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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 […]

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 […]