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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How to Homeschool with a New Baby

January 18, 2013

My topic at The Homeschool Village this month: In our home (and most others, I’m sure), when life happens—births, deaths, illness–academics tend to grind to a halt so that we can deal with the immediate needs of the family. New homeschooling moms ask me frequently how I handle homeschooling with a newborn in tow. Having [...]

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Whose Children Are These?

January 16, 2013

The idea that that having children is a big decision and one not to be undertaken lightly is so common in our times that it has become cliché. Thanks to the language of the contraceptive culture, no responsible couple ever just gets pregnant. No, we talk about getting pregnant, then we think about getting pregnant [...]

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The Need to Breed

January 7, 2013

It’s just so…distasteful. Just about any time I write about the blessing of children (and that’s a lot, because there’s a lot to be said), someone will leave a comment the gist of which is that…well, here. Let me give you one of the more interesting examples: We used to procreate to keep the human [...]

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Help for Your New Year’s Resolutions

December 31, 2012

Happy New Year! Personally, I don’t do resolutions on New Year’s Day. I do them whenever it occurs to me that I need to strengthen my resolve in some area. If it just happens to occur to me on January 1st, then that is when I do it. This year, it occurs to me that [...]

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Naive, Unworldly Homeschoolers

December 19, 2012

In any discussion with critics of home education, the objection will eventually crop up that “homeschoolers won’t know how to deal with the real world when they’re grown.”  It seems safe to assume that those who raise this objection aren’t worried that homeschooled children won’t be able to figure out how to buy groceries, drive [...]

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Quiet Time

December 4, 2012

“It is quiet time. Find a book. Get a puzzle. Curl up and take a nap. Anything, anything but noise!” Every day I say it, and every day, they resist it, but they need the quiet time. They can’t just go and go and go. Neither can I. Sometimes everything has to slow down so [...]

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I Won at Blogging!

November 28, 2012

Does that mean the game is over? Gosh, I hope not.   You (or somebody) chose Get Along Home as Best Opinion, Political, or Current Events Blog. Get Along Husband forgot to vote, and my mom doesn’t seem to have gotten the hang of this internet thingy just yet, so this is entirely thanks to [...]

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Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal

November 26, 2012

Thanksgiving is over. You have a little bit of pumpkin left over because it wouldn’t fit in the pie. What to do? Here’s what I did this morning. It was so good I just had to blog about it. There is white chocolate and freshly whipped cream involved. Yes, for breakfast. Don’t judge. Print Pumpkin [...]

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Teach Them Diligently Early Bird Registration Ends TODAY!

November 15, 2012

What are you doing next May? Many homeschooling families will be taking stock of the preceding school year, and thinking about the next round of curriculum. While we’re doing that, though, we also need to take stock of the spiritual growth that has happened in our homes over the past year, and prayerfully consider what [...]

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How Ya Feelin’, Voters?

November 7, 2012

I feel fine! Let’s talk social media and politics, and stuff, shall we? Skip this post if you don’t have the stomach for such things the day after. When I woke up this morning, my (mostly conservative-leaning) Facebook and Twitter streams were absolutely choked with Bible verses about the sovereignty of God, along with the [...]

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See The Light Art Class: Drawing Children to Him (Giveaway)

November 5, 2012

People are creative. We can see that every day in the inventions, books, conversations, music and arts that make human existence so much more than just scratching food out from the dust of the ground and trying to evade predators. But why are we creative? Christians know that people are creative because the Creator made [...]

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Ready to Vote?

November 4, 2012

It’s that time again! Time for me to direct you to the Homeschool Blog Awards without seeming to be begging you to vote for me. Even though that is precisely what I’m doing. Readers have kindly nominated Get Along Home in four categories: Best Homeschool Mom Blog Best Variety Funniest Best Current Events, Opinion, or [...]

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Every Time

October 31, 2012

And I do mean every. single. time. that I sit down to write something, somebody needs me. And by somebody, I mean this guy: Who is teething, and ravenous, and not napping very well at the moment. And when he doesn’t need me, somebody else does. Also? Laundry. I guess it is possible that I [...]

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UNREAL Candy: UNJUNK Your Fun

October 16, 2012

I’ll bet you thought all that stuff you’ve been snitching from your kids’ Halloween stashes every November 1st was a treat, didn’t you? Well it’s not. It’s a dirty trick, and I can prove it! I, along with some of my favorite people in the whole world (though not too many, because I wanted a [...]

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IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America

October 11, 2012

Take a quick trip back with me, if you will, to a post I wrote a year or so ago entitled Sending Your Children to Public Schools. I said: People are social creatures. We default to the mainstream, because that’s where it seems safest. After all, if this isn’t the best way, there wouldn’t be [...]

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Other Than That…

October 3, 2012

…it was an awesome vacation.

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You Are Invited: Teach Them Diligently 2013

October 2, 2012

The $20 off code is no longer valid, but early bird pricing is still very low! Go! Teach Them Diligently is ready for registration! Very quickly (because I am busier than the proverbial one-legged man, thanks to a nasty car accident and a temporarily laid up husband), let me tell you how to get a [...]

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Are Homeschoolers Disconnected from Their Communities?

September 24, 2012

Of course not! They are at least as engaged as traditionally schooled children, and perhaps even more so! My post for The Homeschool Village this month is about Homeschooling and Community.

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Small Family, Large Family, or God’s Family?

September 18, 2012

My family is not my religion. One of the more obvious themes of this blog is having a larger-than-average family in a small-family culture. I’m a mother of five active and challenging people. This job—or perhaps it’s better to call it a relationship–takes up my whole day, every day, and will do so for at [...]

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Large Families and Sharing Bedrooms

September 17, 2012

In our spoiled-rotten society, having children share bedrooms has become much less common than it was when I was a child. With only two kids, it’s not such a stretch to accommodate each one with his own space, in which only his own things are kept. And he has a lot of things to keep, [...]

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Teach Them Diligently is Throwing a Party!

September 12, 2012

And you are invited! The Teach Them Diligently Convention is finally ready to reveal the names of the speakers for next year! I’ve been dying to know who they are, but it has been kept under tight wraps. Even though I’m a TTD blogger (official, you know) I’m as much in the dark about it [...]

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How Large Families “Afford” Their Children

September 6, 2012

Those of us who aren’t wealthy, that is. Whether it’s a nosy Walmart employee or a random internet searcher, it seems like I am constantly having to explain that we really can “afford” our children, even the ones we haven’t had yet. But I never seem to get down to the brass tacks of it. [...]

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Keeping House with Littles

September 1, 2012

I’m over at Stacy Makes Cents today with a guest post, doing my part to keep the blog rolling while she recovers from her blessed event. Click over and congratulate Stacy and Barry on their new addition! While you’re at it, read my post. It’s about how to keep a home with a million (give [...]

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Timeline of Classics (Review and Giveaway)

August 29, 2012

As I’ve mentioned before, we’re no longer using Tapestry of Grace for our core curriculum. We’ll go back to it in the future, perhaps, but right now I just have too many littles for it to work. That doesn’t mean we neglect history, though. We love history way too much for that! Our history lessons [...]

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