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Simple Christmas
Simplicity. Simple things, simple joys, simple beauty. It’s what I crave right now. I guess it’s understandable, since we sold/donated/gave away almost everything we owned when we moved back in September. I am finding that I have a desire to keep life that way. . .simple. When you look closely enough, what beauty there is in the simple things of life! The steam curling upward
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When God’s Plans Don’t Look Like Your Plans
A while back I blogged about the empty nest and how it shouldn’t be something that we avoid or dread. That as couples, we should almost rejoice when we have an empty nest because it affords us an opportunity to spend time with our spouses alone and to get to know them again on a new and deeper level. It also affords us an opportunity
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Your 2013 Favorites and Building Habits in the New Year at Habits for a Happy Home
Based on your reading, these are your favorites for 2013. Some of these are all-time classics from the archives! Plus, we are including those, below, we feel are important to develop in the new year. Your Favorite Habits of 2013 1. Three Gifts for Christmas (pin it) 2. The Ultimate Guide to Housekeeping Habits (pin it) 3. How to Be Your Husband’s Wife and Not
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Stick to IT! Getting Back to the Charlotte Mason Method
Stick to IT! The IT being what you know GOD had directed you to do! Why? Because GOD’s plans are always the BEST plans! I have been inspired by the Charlotte Mason (CM) method since I started home schooling (seven years ago) but I haven’t followed this method 100%. Of course I will never be what some call a CM Purist. My goal (again) this coming
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Forming Habits: Daily Checklist for Children
I have posted before in reference to Habit Formation … I think Habit formation should be a very important part of child training. I truly believe that God created us to be creatures of habit because having a good habit just makes things so much easier for us. Once something is a habit, you don’t even have to think about it, you just do “it”. Isn’t that a gift
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The Healthy Habit of Laughter
Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” Psalm 126:2 Studies have shown that laughter is healthy, healing. It may even have benefits similar to a light workout! And we all know the verse “A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.” (Prov. 17:22) How can we bring laughter into
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The Christian Parenting Handbook
So we’ve shared a You Can Be An Artist series for the past 10 days. And today we are sharing another passion. It’s a Hodgepodge, right? We are switching gears because I needed you to know about a fabulous parenting resource. Be sure to read through everything below because there is not only a mega giveaway that includes an iPad mini but there’s also a
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