Each year I travel to The Woodlands for the THSC Convention. As soon as the date for the next year is released, it is written in red on my calendar as a DO NOT MISS event. The THSC Convention has become a healing tradition for me. I have been home schooling now for approximately fourteen…
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Have you ever noticed how in Sunday morning church services people tend to sit in the same place? One by one we file in and make a beeline to our pew or our row. Every once in a while we might get adventurous and try a row or two in front of or behind our…
The daily routine: the well-thought-out family schedule and lesson plans with coordinating family menu that all good home schooling moms should create‒not only should but must create—in an attempt to avoid missing even the tiniest opportunity to teach, clean, cook, budget, exercise, organize, and make more plans, right? The daily striving to be “that wife,”…
Have you ever felt like you are in a pressure cooker or a pot of boiling water just trying to stay cool? Home schooling can many times be like a pot of water placed on the stove. The water starts out cool within the confines of the pan, but somehow, at some point, someone turns…
The term “amputation” commonly has horrific and negative connotations in today’s society. It actually means to cut away or to prune and usually refers to the loss of a bodily extremity. Many times amputations are unexpected traumas that leave little time for the person involved to prepare for the loss. After an amputation occurs, amputees…
