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December 11, 2020 by: Kim Ashbaugh

Home Economics, Updated

This year, I’m down to one student in our family homeschool.  Along the way, I have made changes, tweaking each child’s education, finding improved curricula for math or science, adding special projects to English and history, and incorporating electives for each child’s interest. With my youngest that meant adding a home economics class. So here is home economics updated. Home Economics Updated As I searched

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August 24, 2018 by: Kim Ashbaugh

Balancing Work and Home

Working from home is rewarding and beneficial... and has its own set of challenges. Here are my top ten strategies for balancing work and home.

Recently, I was chatting with a few of my friends and realized that, in the past year or so, many of us have gone from being just stay-at-home moms (most who home school) to doing all that AND working (most of us primarily from home).  Working from home is rewarding and beneficial… and has its own set of challenges.  Here are my top ten strategies

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September 25, 2017 by: Kim Ashbaugh

Preparing for College—10 Steps

Overwhelmed with helping a child apply to college? You can do it without much stress! Here are 10 steps for preparing for college.

Helping a child apply to college and all that goes along with it can seem overwhelming to any parent, but the homeschool parent has the added responsibility of being the educator as well. You can do it, and without much stress, if you take it one step at a time. Here are 10 steps for preparing for college. Preparing for College I’ve outlined below what

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March 27, 2014 by: Kim Ashbaugh

A new little space

This month I thought I’d share a simple project recently completed at our house. Our house is a good size, and with only three children, there was enough room when we moved in for everyone to have their own room.  (Except me and hubby, we like to share, but when one of the kids moves out, I’m going to make her room into a pink,

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February 4, 2014 by: Kim Ashbaugh

Top Ten Things to Do for Fun Without Spending Money

Recently, my husband and I were having a date at a large bookstore, reading and drinking coffee together, and I came across this book.  I have not read the whole book, but skimmed through it and liked what I saw.  In it, author Michelle Singletary talks of taking a 21-day fast from spending any money unnecessarily. I shared the idea with my husband, and we decided

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January 9, 2014 by: Kim Ashbaugh

Fresh Possibilities

Don’t you love the new year? So fresh with possibilities! Do you make the same New Year’s Resolutions every year? I usually always vow to lose weight. Well, I haven’t ever stayed on a diet I started on Jan 1, and haven’t lost weight successfully for years now. But once again, I find myself starting a healthier eating and exercise plan. I’ve done it before

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November 14, 2013 by: Kim Ashbaugh

God is good

I can’t believe it’s been two years already.   Two years since the tragic accident, the phone call in the middle of the night; the long, 500 mile drive north; tears finally coming as I entered the hospital lobby.  Two years since I stepped into the ICU room where my critically–injured child was lying in a bed broken and bruised, undergoing one of nine blood transfusions,

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May 14, 2013 by: Kim Ashbaugh

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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