Do you wonder what God’s will is for you today? How do you determine what His wishes are for you on any given day? Do you think your circumstances will give you the answer, or your feelings, or someone else’s advice? Answer: none of the above. *originally posted by Ann Karako Several years ago I […]
This post was originally published in 2015. It might be more relevant now than ever before! Enjoy! I’m going to start out by saying something that may come as a shock. It’s not the sort of thing you hear many homeschooling families admit, but I will confess it freely. Here it is: my kids could
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Overview: Find out how to make an impressive homeschool high school transcript with a few pieces of vital information. Answers all your questions! You wake up out of a sound sleep—heart pounding, adrenaline rushing, hot flash, well, flashing. Your anxiety-laden subconscious has been stewing about that dreaded homeschool transcript again. Once started, you churn ’til
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Dear Mom whose baby is a high school senior this year,
I know it was just yesterday you were changing diapers or wiping crumbs. Or tucking in at night. Or pushing the swing at the playground.
It feels like the years went too quickly, doesn’t it? And now that little snot-nosed kid who you thought you had so much more time with is preparing to graduate.
In a previous post, I looked at holiday stress and how to reduce it. It’s a real fact of life for many of us. It’s too easy to become so wrapped up (ha! see what I did there?) in the busy-ness of getting things done that we don’t enjoy the season. So last week I
My mom cried because the turkey wasn’t done. I remember this incident from a childhood holiday very clearly. We had all been told that dinner was ready and that it was time to come to the table. As my dad began to carve the bird, it was discovered that the meat was in fact not
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Do the holidays sneak up on you and your budget? Even with the best of intentions, sometimes December rolls around and it becomes time to freak out about how to find enough money for Christmas. Especially if you want to have your kids give gifts to one another. That can double or triple the total
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Overview: This CTC Math review is not only from the homeschool parent perspective but also from a math teacher’s perspective — so you know it’s legit! Note: This review is sponsored by CTCMath but all opinions are definitely my own. As always I’m going to be completely honest with you. Here is a statement you
“Well, just enjoy knowing everything now, because pretty soon you’ll realize you’re just as stupid as we are!!” said one father to his teenager. (No, this didn’t actually originally happen in our family; it was a friend of ours who said it to his daughter — but I may or may not have borrowed it
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You know that scene in Ratatouille where Anton Ego takes the bite of the dish that’s been prepared for him, and he is transported in that moment to the happy place of his childhood home, eating the food his mother made? I had a moment like that yesterday when I prepared my mom’s cranberry relish
Overview: Cooking turkey ahead of time is the best way to reduce stress on Thanksgiving day. You’ll never go back with this foolproof method! I am not exaggerating when I say that this method of cooking turkey ahead of time will CHANGE YOUR LIFE. I first heard about it many years ago from a wise
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2020 was a year that incoming college freshmen will never forget. The pandemic brought about a lockdown that made it nearly impossible to find a location for most college applicants to take an SAT or ACT. COVID-19 forced almost all colleges across the U.S. to announce a “test-optional” policy for applicants—even the selective or top-tier
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Did you know that many colleges base scholarship decisions solely on scores from college entrance exams, namely the SAT, ACT, and or CLT? While we know test scores are an artificial indication of your child’s readiness and ability to succeed in college, it is reality that they are very important for determining whether your child
Right now I have two girls that are college students. And I love it. OK, I don’t love everything about it — it makes me feel old, for one thing (no snide comments from the peanut gallery, please), and it’s really tough to say goodbye to them after the break, for another. And sometimes the
Well, we are just back from a whirlwind college visit. We rushed back to beat the snow, but we were not completely successful — in either beating the snow, or rushing back — as you will read below… Um. But while it’s still fresh in my mind, I thought I’d pass on some tips for
Here we are, in the middle of the homeschool year. It’s after the holidays, and there’s a long way to go before spring break. This is when the winter blues can hit; and I don’t know about you, but at our house, we can tend to get off of our homeschool schedule. (Actually, we can
Chocolate and pumpkin together has to be one of the best kept secrets known to man. In the age of PSL’s (Pumpkin Spice Lattés, for you uninitiated), people seem to have forgotten that chocolate and pumpkin do actually work together rather well. At least they do in this high protein shake recipe — if I
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Imagine yourself sitting down to open gifts with the family on Christmas morning, knowing that breakfast has already been taken care of — and you didn’t have to get up early to do it. Imagine only taking LITERALLY 15 minutes the night before to throw something together — something that everyone will think is to.
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Wow, it’s almost time for school to be done for the year and for summer break to begin. For many of you, anyway. Some of us homeschoolers purposely do school year-round; others of us (myself included) somehow end up that way anyway without really trying… But I don’t want to fritter the summer away this
To every thing, turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn… You know the rest! Listen to this episode to hear some news and be introduced to a wonderful person! SCROLL DOWN TO LISTEN Episode 94: An Announcement and an Introduction