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Public School Teachers are the Devil!

May 17, 2013

And other things I’ve never said… The last time I had the gall to notice that there are some bad nursing homes out there, and that even good nurses are often unable to really do good in these places, I got some enraged comments because, they said, I shouldn’t talk about nurses that way. Just [...]

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Is Down’s Syndrome a Blessing or a Curse?

May 15, 2013

Through a lack of strong teaching on the subject in this shallow age, most Christians find themselves unable to distinguish between blessings and the Curse. A question from a reader: Thank you for taking the time to write about subjects that are difficult for many Christians to digest & make sense of… … I just [...]

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Teach Them Diligently Recap

May 9, 2013

I’m sure some may have noticed the brief appearance of a post about Teach Them Diligently. You weren’t imagining things. I did write one, but it’s not there anymore, thanks to a 2 a.m. deletion which I’m really at loss to explain. I put it in the trash, and then I emptied the trash, and [...]

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It’s Tuesday, isn’t it?

May 7, 2013

Unfortunately, I’m pretty sick with what appears to be the flu, so I won’t be able to give Titus 2 Tuesday the attention it deserves. I will do it next Tuesday, instead.  

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Time to Go!

May 1, 2013

I’m so excited! I’ll be in Spartanburg tomorrow with the Teach Them Diligently Convention for a weekend of homeschool encouragement, curriculum shopping, and socialization. I know. I said I’d be in Nashville, didn’t I? The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. Thanks to some dental bills we didn’t anticipate (hillbillies [...]

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Whose Children Are These? (Take Two)

April 23, 2013

As we saw in my first post by the same name, these kids are not ours. They are God’s creations, just as we are, just as Adam and Eve were. We, their parents, have a God-given position of authority over these new lives He has so graciously woven into our family. This is the main [...]

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How to Name Your Homeschool

April 17, 2013

I might not be the best person to ask. The official school year is almost over, and there are decisions to be made about next year. If you’re thinking about homeschooling for the first time, or if you just moved to North Carolina (or some other state that requires you to name your school) you’ll [...]

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Working….(bumped)

April 12, 2013

If you never see me again, it is because hillbilly mommy bloggers were not meant to write books, and I died trying.   Stay tuned!

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Do I Really Need to Go To Homeschool Conventions?

April 11, 2013

Confession time. I’ve been homeschooling all this time, and I’ve never set foot in a homeschool convention. Not even a small conference. Ever. So no, you don’t have to go to homeschool conventions to figure out this homeschooling thing. However, there are about a gazillion good reasons you might want to go to one, even [...]

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Chicken and Biscuits

April 8, 2013

I know. It’s spring, and who wants to spend an hour in the kitchen making cozy comfort food when there are walks to take in the sunshine and gardens to start? But there will still be some chilly, rainy days this month. You might get a chance to try this. If not, I’ll be sure [...]

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Stereotypes

April 5, 2013

 Embrace the embarrassing. Last week, an article by a doctor who homeschools her children began making the rounds through homeschooling social media circles. I enjoyed the article, for the most part, and agreed completely with the points the mom made about homeschooling. Homeschooling is awesome for all the reasons she listed, and more! Welcome to [...]

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Easy, Scalable Biscuit Recipe

April 3, 2013

 I’ve searched high and low for a biscuit recipe that’s both simple enough to keep in my tiny brain and scalable without having to remember how many teaspoons goes into a tablespoon or needing to measure out a sixth of a cup of something.  Since I never found anything that suited me, I’ve evolved my [...]

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Titus 2 Tuesday: One Faithful Mom

April 2, 2013

Kindred spirits. Every now and then, somebody will leave such an insightful comment on this blog that I just have to follow the person’s link and find out who I’m dealing with. Sometimes that person proves to be a kindred spirit, and a real friendship grows up out of it. Even though I’ve never met [...]

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Men, Angels, and Clanging Brass

March 26, 2013

Know what else sounds like clanging brass? Smoke alarms. A little while ago, my friend Kelly wrote a post for Visionary Womanhood about one of the most often misused passages in the entire Bible. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, [...]

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Eye Can Art Kits (Giveaway!)

March 15, 2013

We are art impaired at the Get Along Household. It’s not that I don’t enjoy trying to make art, but that I just lack that particular talent. In spite of my limitations, I do try to work something artsy in every week or so, just in case one of the kids is less handicapped than [...]

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Titus 2 Tuesday: Tina Jobe

March 12, 2013

Charity begins at home. Before ranging far afield to acknowledge the accomplishments of ladies who, while I admire them and have learned from them, aren’t actually on the list of people I could call for advice, I’d better first tip my hat to a real friend. While many women are struggling with being at home [...]

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Save Money on Baby Food

March 7, 2013

Make your own! I’m smashing and pureeing things at High Country Parent today. Join me?

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Titus 2 Tuesday

March 5, 2013

3Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and [...]

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Child-Free and Loving It

March 1, 2013

Not me. Them. In my latest insomnia-fueled excursion around the internet I ran across the above-linked article at The Daily Beast. Go read it. I’ll wait here… It’s quite a piece of work, isn’t it? It is, in case you were too smart to take the bait, an article cobbled together from reader comments that [...]

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Bloggers and You (the Reader)

February 21, 2013

Let’s talk about us, shall we? I have no doubt that someone, somewhere, has said that the first rule of blogging is that you never talk about blogging. Newspapers don’t often talk about the newspaper business on the front page, and bloggers don’t talk about their WordPress dashboard. It’s just not done. I’ve never been [...]

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Running Ahead of the Teacher

February 18, 2013

Don’t do that, kid. You’ll just confuse yourself. One of the advantages of being a fairly smart kid is that you usually pretty well know where the teacher is going before she gets there. (Smart on paper, anyway. Not too swift, some who know me might note, in other respects.) Either you’ve already read that [...]

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When Motherhood Feels Too Hard

February 12, 2013

What? You never feel that way? I’m sure this will come as a complete surprise to long-time readers, but I’m not the self-help or advice-seeking type. I don’t, as a rule, do devotionals. For my personal devotion time, I have a Bible. I read it, then I pray. I read other religious works, too, of [...]

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Here There Be Dragons…

January 31, 2013

Curriculum and schedule update Since I started out our year with a post about how I hoped to do things, I’m sure some (especially more seasoned moms who know better) are asking “So, how’s that working out for ya?” Actually, pretty well, all things considered! I hate to admit it, but this is the first [...]

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Staying Sane with Lots of Small Children

January 28, 2013

Recently, a new reader contacted me with the following concern: I have a 2.5 yr old son and an 8 mo old daughter.  I would like a big family but wonder if I’d be able to handle it.  I enjoyed reading a few of your blogs about having 5 and the comments people make to [...]

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Blessings and Curses

January 23, 2013

Any time I speak of the general blessing of children, someone will pipe up to provide a particular instance in which this seems not be true. Since God is not a liar, and He says that children are blessings, there is simply no way you’ll ever hear me say anything to the contrary. However, we [...]

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