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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
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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,  Little Brother,  The Preschool Years

    Transitional Kindergarten: Homeschooling Our Little Enigma

    / June 9, 2020 / 0 Comments

    While homeschooling Little Brother is sometimes confusing and frustrating, it's also very exciting. I'm looking forward to enjoying this transitional kindergarten year!

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Special Needs Parenting

    DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”

    / October 9, 2018 / 7 Comments

    Our son Ezra – who is now eight years old – has been quite the enigma, hasn’t he? If you are new to our family’s blog – or perhaps visiting via Pinterest or…

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Fatherhood,  Little Brother,  Momma Goes Back to School,  Motherhood,  Special Needs Parenting

    A very long life and family update (with lots of pictures!)

    / January 28, 2017 / 0 Comments

    I’m so glad that January is almost over, aren’t you? Honestly, though, it’s been a good month for our family, considering it was January. We started off the year with a beautiful 8-or-so…

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  • Miscellaneous,  Momma Goes Back to School,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    when you want to blog but your brain is too full…

    / September 30, 2016 / 2 Comments

    Hello my familiar friend. Blank, white post window. Blinking cursor beckoning. Inviting. I just stopped in the middle of an assignment because the baby bonked his head in his crib and as I…

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Ezra,  Family,  Little Brother

    This is how we survived the summer

    / September 1, 2016 / 1 Comment

    At the beginning of the summer, I wrote a blog post about Summer Survival. In that post, I talked about the pull of the romanticized notion of letting kids be bored during the…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Momma Goes Back to School,  Special Needs Parenting

    What music history can teach us about mental challenges

    / July 21, 2016 / 0 Comments

    I’m a week away from being done with my music appreciation class. I have found this class to be highly enjoyable and enlightening. The book has covered the lives of many of the…

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  • Ezra,  Family,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Little Brother,  Messy Faith,  Miscellaneous,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    In which I word vomit about my life

    / June 26, 2016 / 3 Comments

    My house is quiet. My mother-in-law has taken Ezra away to get a 3-day head start on our family vacation and Little Brother is sleeping. The only sound is the air conditioning, the…

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  • Ezra,  Special Needs Parenting,  The Preschool Years

    Preschool Graduation: Ezra’s Trials and Triumphs

    / June 9, 2016 / 4 Comments

    Yesterday was Ezra’s preschool graduation. Tomorrow is his very last day of preschool, and falls exactly two years and four months from the day I first sent him off to preschool. I felt…

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  • Grow in Grace 2016,  Military and Veteran Life,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings,  Special Needs Parenting

    I’m going back to school: my dream and the plan

    / April 6, 2016 / 4 Comments

    My college years were filled with drama and exhaustion. Going back to school was pretty much the last thing I wanted to do. Ever. Until a year ago. But this story begins long before.…

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