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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • Home preschool resources for the tired, non-creative, busy mom
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    • Top Ten Posts of All Time
    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • Our Love Story
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    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    What we accomplished in March & our NEW homeschool plan

    / April 1, 2021 / 0 Comments

    How to not over-plan, lose your sanity, and try to do too much when you feel like EVERYTHING IS SUPER-DUPER IMPORTANT AND IT ALL MATTERS.  What if we accomplished our goal of getting…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Homeschooling,  Little Brother,  The Preschool Years,  Travel

    SPACE X LAUNCH and our fun astronomy homeschooling science unit

    / January 27, 2021 / 0 Comments

    As I look back on this unit that began with a trip to the Adler Planetarium a week before they closed due to COVID and ended with the Space X launch literally on…

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  • Family,  Homeschooling

    Becoming a read-aloud family (& tips for reading aloud to wild boys!)

    / January 12, 2021 / 0 Comments

    There’s never been a point when I haven’t read to our boys, but homeschooling provides much more opportunity and time to read to them. At the beginning of 2020, I got the CD…

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  • Homeschooling,  Special Needs Parenting

    ADHD Homeschooling: Balancing Consistency, Novelty, and Sanity

    / November 24, 2020 / 1 Comment

    So, what is to be done when our kids so desperately need two antithetical things (consistency and novelty), especially in regard to homeschooling?

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    A HUGE list of educational TV shows & book series for elementary kids!

    / October 28, 2020 / 0 Comments

    On top of having some great homeschool curriculum, we heavily supplement our learning with books, book series, and TV shows that cover the same content in our lessons. (I will be discussing how…

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  • Homeschooling,  Special Needs Parenting

    ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work

    / October 4, 2020 / 0 Comments

    When people ask how homeschooling with ADHD is going, I usually reply, "It's going so great. I mean...it's messy and chaotic and loud and frustrating and most of the time I want to…

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Homeschooling,  Little Brother,  Special Needs Parenting

    3rd Grade Homeschooling End-of-Year Recap & Review

    / June 2, 2020 / 0 Comments

    We have just finished up our FIRST year of homeschooling and the completion of Ezra’s 3rd grade year! June 1st marks our first day of year two! As we moved through the summer…

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  • Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Homeschooling,  Motherhood,  The Preschool Years,  Travel

    Little Free Library: a social-distancing-friendly way to get kids out of the house

    / March 19, 2020 / 1 Comment

    I think all of us moms are reeling from the current world happenings due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Many moms used to sending their kids to school have been thrust…

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  • Homeschooling,  Motherhood

    Escape {Homeschool Mama Musings}

    / December 16, 2019 / 1 Comment

    Homeschooling is loud and messy and cluttered and chaotic and overwhelming and frustrating and LOUD. But it's also beautiful and rewarding and heartwarming and, dare I say, even peaceful sometimes. I still treasure…

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  • Homeschooling,  Messy Faith

    Beauty in the {Homeschooling} Mess: A Mini-Blog

    / November 10, 2019 / 0 Comments

    I was sitting down to type this out as a status, but realized it would be extremely long. So I decided to come here and sweep away the cobwebs and write for a…

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