Home Schooling

I’ve been homeschooling my children for almost 30 years. Yah, crazy, huh?! But with that experience has come lots of practical tools, real-life experience, and foundational reasons this method of education is so beneficial. Read on….

School’s Starting! – You Need To Plan For the Perfect Day

It's that time of year again! Where did summer go?! No more vacay — it's time to get organized! This ...
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Inspiring Blogs – The Loft Link Up

I'm joining The Loft link-up, a group of women, seeking to build a community of bloggers who inspire, challenge, and simply ...
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The Myth Of Getting It All Done!

As Christian, home-schooling moms, we take on so much, go against the flow, all while living in a crazy, busy ...
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The Most Important Lesson in Home Education

When considering the most important lessen I've learned in home educating for the last 22 years, I must revisit the ...
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Get The Best of Visionary Womanhood Book!

Now this is exciting! Natalie, over at Visionary Womanhood, has gathered the most impacting articles from 2011-2012 and put them ...
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Building Up Without Burning Out – Growing Children Into Adults – Part Three

Hopefully you've read my posts Part One and Part Two of this series. We've covered: simplifying home education to avoid burn out the ...
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Building Up Without Burning Out – Growing Children Into Adults – Part Two

Okay, so we're going for no "burn out" when it comes to home educating our children. I'll answer a reader's ...
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Building Up Without Burning Out – Growing Children Into Adults – Part One

This week I'll be answering a question posed by a reader of my post, Breaking the Mold in Raising Adult Children ...
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Breaking The Mold for Raising Responsible Adults

Our family’s style of raising responsible adults may be unique to many of you. We strongly believe that a college ...
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‘Constructing’ Successful Adults

Have you ever felt that raising a child to adulthood is as complicated as managing the construction of the major ...
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Lessons from the Ruckus of Life

My children have asked what the ‘living above the noise’ part of my web name is about. When I first heard that term I just knew it summed up so much of my many lessons – and – how I’ve learned and am learning to do just that. Live above the noise. That involves so […]

A Twist on Thanksgiving

What Does It Mean To Be Grateful? grate·ful /ˈgrātfəl/ Adjective: Feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful. Synonyms: thankful – appreciative – beholden Thanksgiving causes us to consider the more general and global things we’re thankful for. But too often we get sidetracked from the true purpose of this day in all our busyness […]

Entering Into Life’s ‘Back Office’ – Lessons Learned from our Holiday Gift Fair

In my Lilla Rose business, we have what’s called a ‘Back Office’ on our website, where we do our ordering, party information, and the like. And even beyond that is the corporate office where the company is managed and decisions are made. Well, this post has me seeing life and lessons from the ‘Back Office’ […]

The ‘Back Office’ Test – The Christmas Tree That Took Over…..Our Living Room!

Well, yesterday I had my chance to see how long it would take me to go from living in a present disappointment before entering into ‘life’s Back Office’ (see last post). Here’s the story! My husband and children decided it was time to pick and cut our Christmas tree. I wasn’t feeling well so was […]