Letting Go of the Teacher in You

Ever think about quitting homeschooling? Yeah. Me too. The question is - when you get to that point, what do you do next? Carol Barnier shares encouragement to make homeschooling delicious!

The “I Forgot” Chores Strategies

I have adopted strategies that work in bursts of productivity, or self-rewarding systems, self-regulating systems, or simply lessening the stuff that has to be cleaned.

Tongue, Be Thou Loosed!

My uncontrolled use of the best practiced and most historically accurate of church terminology often puzzled people, or moved them further from the very God I wished them to know.
Schoolboys posing in front of a chalkboard

The Spelling Police Have Arrived

If 2000 years from now, archaeologists examined our writing in this century, it would seem the 21st century human developed a bizarre method of speaking.

A Lifetime of Refried Beans & Molasses

“Here’s your breakfast!” says mom, as she cheerfully places in front of her awakening children a plate covered with smooth refried beans and a little dollop of molasses. The children went suddenly silent. This ...

The Joy of Mono-tasking

Be a force against the craziness. Go forth in search of the monotasking moment, of a thought taken all the way to completion, of a task that proceeds to its own natural God ordained end!