BE WARNED–RAMBLING HERE! I thoroughly enjoy the Word taught at our church home. I’ve been in church all of my life (though church wasn’t always in me), but we have been especially blessed in the last ten years. Like any church, ours has its shortcomings and dysfunction, but the Word, aaahhh, the Word—it’s rich, it’s […]
Mid-April Progress Report
For two weeks now, I’ve planned a weekly report, but I missed out on the Sunday a week ago, and I was determined to not spend Resurrection Sunday on the computer. So, I’ll resign my ambitions to a mid-April (can’t believe I’m saying that!) progress report. There’s a popular book entitled All I […]
God and Goals come before shopping…
for curriculum, that is. This is the time that, for those of us who follow the traditional school year, we begin thinking about tools for next year. It is also the time, for those who are considering homeschooling, to research, to plan, and to pray–hopefully in reverse order. I found this nugget of wisdom somewhere early in our transition […]
Convincing Them to School My Way
‘In the story of every family is the stuff from which both novels and eventually history is written.’ Eleanor Roosevelt In her comment on my 3/25 post, “A Bird’s Eye Look at Next Year,” Sally asked a question that I’ve marinated on most of this week. My response to her would have […]
How We Often Frustrate our Young Adult Children (Part 1)
These words are not my own. They belong to Pastor Matt Bullen, Heritage Family Baptist Church, Texas, who will also speak at the upcoming Texas Home School Coalition (THSC) conference this summer. Yet, as I skimmed a homeschooling newsletter, I found the topic thought-provoking. It is a conversation that I’ve had with my husband, and […]