It has been a long, hard winter. Lots of snow, lots of ice, lots of cold, and lots of distressing life-stuff. The other day I stood outside, trying to get into my locked house. I didn’t want to be outside, and there was no objective reason why my house key shouldn’t work, but it didn’t. […]
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Review: Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
We moms often focus on habits. We try to develop good habits in our children, we use habits to make our homeschools function more effectively, and we harness the power of habit to help our lives run more smoothly. Over a century ago, Charlotte Mason wrote a lot about the importance of cultivating habits in […]
Pi Day—An Opportunity for Praise
God has built many surprises into the universe for us to discover and enjoy. One of them is the number pi which begins with 3.141592… and continues on for at least 13 trillion digits, perhaps forever. What is so special about this number? Simply this: it shows up throughout nature in the most surprising places, […]
A Christian Homeschooler on The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo is a best seller, not only on Amazon and the New York Times, but also internationally. You’re probably thinking the same thing I was. An international best seller about tidying up? How is that possible? Not being a naturally tidy person (although it’s amazing how […]