> There is no fear in love: but perfect love casts out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that fears is not made perfect in love. ~ I John 4:18 On a warm afternoon two days before Easter I was

I recently read a commentary stating educational toys are unnecessary. Since children’s minds are like sponges, we just need to find creative ways to engage our children’s minds to provide the extracurricular

Then I want to know what I did to piss her off! Because I certainly did something. I just want to know what the hell I did to anger her, and what I can do to appease her. Does Karma like chocolate? Vodka?

I don’t want to use this to talk about my frustrations with my kids. But that’s what I’m going to do, sort of.  My teenager right now is having a hissy fit because I have inconsistent parenting methods.

I finally saw it and I am soooo glad that I did. I cried the whole way through the movie. First I cried because of nature and health and ambition and joy. Anytime I see people enjoying nature I am so happy.

For years the saying “Others May, You Cannot” has been on my mind. It has helped me to understand a few things about myself and kept me from too much confusion about why I can’t just relax in certain areas

This isn’t really an article about my irritations about PA’s homeschool law, but I am inwardly getting a bit warm.  Everytime I hear from our school district I get a bit irritable

4:30 am - Went to bed.  Seriously, I am nuts.  I am so stressed out about planning for next year and have decided to bite the bullet and get it done at night when there

We have teeth!!! Faith finally decided to sprout some teeth. Poor little girl was teething in addition to being sick! She has been trying to get teeth for months with no

Wow, maybe this one will be quick.  So unlike me. Sunday - woke up, showered, took teen daughter to Sunday School and Church. Daughter stayed and helped with a dinner, I went

While dreaming about next year I thought I wanted to use Monday as a very heavy school day in order to free up the rest of the week. Seriously heavy. Start at 8:30 am and go until 6:00 pm. OK, I didn’t

8am - got up, showered, dressed, all that good stuff Again teen daughter was up much earlier taking her final Geometry test.  Thank goodness that is over.  She now has one Biology test and a

I was just thinking. Yup, I do that. A lot. Anyway, I was thinking that so often I am not consistent in enforcing our house rules with my kids. You know, stuff like – don’t hit, don’t yell, obey Mom, don’t

Another day that I don’t want to admit to on my blog, but I’m totally OK with how it went down.  11 am  - my daughter came into -my room looking for her iPad.  I thought it would be a great

When I decided to start My journal entries I wanted to do it so that I could share the BAD days not just the good.  Well,

1. Spent way too much time on Twitter and not enough time actually writing posts. But I liked it. 2. Second guessing myself constantly. Why do I even blog? Whats the point? Nobody cares about my blog.

I didnt want to be on Facebook.  I have an addicting personality.  People arent addicted to me, though that would be nice, I very easily get addicted to the latest thing.  Case in point:

If you are new to homeschooling then your state law is the logical first step in order to make sure you are dotting your is and crossing your ts.  But even if you are a veteran homeschooler refreshing

I wrote this at the end of last school year.   I was naive, I was hopeful, I was dreaming.   This is the time of year that I start to get tons of ideas for our homeschool for NEXT year. We have

Find YOUR Right Way to Raise and Homeschool YOUR Children Focus on YOUR Godly wisdom concerning YOUR circumstances, YOUR family and YOUR children. Did you ever have that nagging feeling that you were just