Spiritual Warfare: The Power of Praise I think we so often underestimate the true power of praise! We have access to it every day, yet we so often neglect to use it. My youngest son and I have been reading a book by Derek Prince called Rules of Engagement: Preparing for Your Role…
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Instant Pot® (Instantpot) Applesauce in 30 Minutes or Less! Instantpot applesauce is such an easy way to use all those apples you get on your homeschool field trips to pick apples! This super easy and versatile instantpot applesauce recipe tastes even better after a day or two. It can be enjoyed immediately, but is also…
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What Charlie Kirk Believed (and Where We’ve Gone Wrong) Charlie Kirk carried a torch. He believed in the Gospel and gave his life defending principles of our faith. When he was shot and fell to the ground, it wasn’t just a microphone that he dropped. It was a torch that lit the world on fire…
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When it comes to finding fun ways to use traveling to teach math, you don’t have to travel far. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself! 😉 ) Like most homeschool moms, I naturally gravitated towards the textbooks and classroom-style learning methods the first year or two. We do what we know! However, it didn’t take long for…
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The Book Writing Process: 5 Essential Tips for Success “I have a book in me!” How many people have said this phrase, yet somehow that life-changing book never actually makes it out of their heads and onto the pages, let alone onto published pages? It isn’t that 99% of the world is…
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Inspirational Missionary Stories for your Homeschool I remember years ago in Sunday school, waiting with anticipation for the missionary story that would be shared each week. The teacher would bring up a large spiral-bound “pad” that had a picture on one side and the narration on the back side, which they would read while holding…
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Tips for Building Healthy Relationships The Lifeschooling theme for February is “Love Never Fails,” so I asked my community, as well as other homeschool bloggers, to give me their tips for building healthy relationships. With Valentine’s Day on our minds, February is a great month to focus on relationships not just between husbands and wives,…
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Failed Plans: How to NOT Get it All Done Do you feel like failed plans are just part of your everyday existence…like no matter how many blog posts or articles you read about scheduling, using your time wisely, and accomplishing more, you never can seem to finish the to-do list? And all those articles just…
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10 LEGO Activities for Kids Fun fact: LEGOs were invented in Denmark where my mom was born, and she had a set that would be quite valuable today if she had hung onto it. Anyway, LEGOs have long been a favorite tool for fostering creativity and imagination in children and we have incorporated them into…
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Top Family-Friendly Christmas Movies Streaming on Netflix and Prime The Christmas season is bearing down on us with welcomed threats of mistletoe and butter-laden cookies (AND the Christmas Blessing Giveaway at the bottom of this post), and I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to one of our favorite traditions: snuggling up with…
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