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8 Strategies for Beating Dysgraphia
Dysgraphia is a learning disability that affects a person’s handwriting. The hallmarks of dysgraphia include the inability to properly space letters, not recognizing the difference between lower and...
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Kids in the Kitchen – Pumpkin Hand Cake
I have a confession to make: I am a control freak. I do not like allowing other people to do things that I can do well, and baking is something I do very well. My children are constantly asking to...
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Redefining Christmas
I love Christmas! I love the weather and the baking and shopping and the giving and the decorations, I love it so much that I start listening to Christmas music in September. Unfortunately, in years...
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Happy No Yell New Year
Something has been weighing heavily on me lately. I do something regularly of which I am ashamed. I’m a yeller, and I don’t like that. Sure, there are times when yelling is acceptable, such as when my...
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Climbing the Mountain of Doubt
It’s February again, and seasoned homeschool moms know what that means: it’s burn-out month! I don’t know what it is about February, but it’s the #1 month in which I hear parents say that they want to...
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Simple Science Experiments
We all go through those periods of time when the days are so hectic that we don’t have time to sit down until the wee hours, and when we sit down we immediately fall asleep. During these times it can...
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Financial Literacy in the Kitchen
April is Financial Literacy Month, and there is no other skill I wish I had learned as a young adult more than financial literacy. Sure, I knew how to balance a checkbook, but I didn’t realize that...
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National Salad Month: Raw Beet Salad
“Meg, you need to change your eating habits now, if you wait much longer it will be too late.” With that sentence my doctor both scared and motivated me. I haven’t even turned 40 yet when I was...
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When You Don’t Want to Say Goodbye
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean...
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A Day in the Life of a Large Homeschooling Family
“How do you do it with 6?” is something I hear often and I usually don’t know how to answer. Yes, it’s true that I’m a mother of 6 kids who range in age from 1-18. I’m also a wife, a daughter, a...
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