I had no idea how to help a baby bird who had fallen from his nest in a tree near our farm house. But a little research and a couple of simple supplies, and we were able to do just that. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links. ♥ Yesterday, our usually quiet, docile fields were alive […]
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I’m a failure. If I’m not currently beating myself up over this truth, I’m actually okay with it. In fact, I’ve realized that even when parents feel like failures, their children–by God’s grace–can still succeed. The Colossal Hoax I think there’s a colossal hoax right under all of our parental noses and we don’t even realize it. We’re
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How to Make a Homeschool Year Shorter Yet Productive After a few decades of homeschooling, our family learned that shorter homeschool years can actually be more productive. We put away book work for this school year one week into May, and we won’t be picking it back up until the first week of September. Why? Because there’s
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Yep, I knew I was a failure as a mom. But then this happened. While I’m usually writing about cows, or chicken, life in a 200-year-old farmhouse, making maple syrup, or how to make kombucha, and other kind of homesteading-ish topics from our New England homestead, today I had to share this with you… My
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It’s not easy to motivate a child to learn. It’s not easy to foster a passion in a child and encourage them to pursue that passion. It’s not easy being a parent. My biggest parenting challenge One of my biggest parenting challenges has been to redefine what’s absolutely necessary in any given afternoon and what
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Yeah, it can be downright hard being a mom. Moms of young ones are always exhausted and certain that their feeble attempts to raise little ones will somehow collapse in failure one day. Moms of middle schoolers are continually wondering if they’re doing “enough.” And moms of teens somedays forget that they care about this
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Bittersweet. Summer’s final breath. Boxes, a mini fridge, and baking pans neatly stacked in her van. An exuberant college Junior ready to return to friends and professors and her life, apart from me. This time of year always reminds me that amidst my feelings of sad separation spring joyous pride and immense gratefulness that God helped me
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