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Tennis camp. No shade. Lots of water. Doesn’t seem like enough. Kids loving the sport. Baby chases the balls around. This is quite nice. Till we get home. Despite the water, the baseball hats, the visors, the apples, the pluots, and the regular breaks, the sun is melting my children’s brains. It takes so much…

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[Reading time   1-2 minutes]     Thought I should close this topic with one more post. Bible study is not something we do because it gets us into heaven. It’s not something we should do to look or feel Christian to ourselves or others. Bible study is just a term our culture has applied to a scriptural instruction…

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{Reading time   1-2 minutes}     This is a one groovy week! Truly, it is. A great week. It actually feels like summer. The sun is out, then a little cloudy, then some rain, but mostly in the evenings. So the garden is growing, I’m not paying to water it (I’m also not weeding it…last year for…

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[Reading time   1-2 minutes]      Today I give you the third suggestion in quality Bible study methods for busy moms. It’s hard to cultivate our relationship with God while mothering preschoolers. Well, shucks, it’s hard to cultivate our relationship with God with preteens, teenagers, grown kids or no kids. We live in a crazy busy world…

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[Reading time   1-2 minutes]      We’re talking about Bible studies. In a talk given to a MOPS group about how to find and cultivate our relationship with God while mothering the preschool years, I made three suggestions of how to have a rich Bible study. Today I’ll share suggestion #2. It’s kind of silly, but it…

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Some people are really good at doing Bible studies. They pick a study and diligently work on it through each day at a regular time. I love those people. I used to be those people. Then 5 children moved into my house. And I joined another group of people. This new group doesn’t have a…

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Woke up this morning to ants in the kitchen. Not  a ton, but just enough sugar ants around a bit of juice to change the course of my morning. After the Bleach Extravaganza and my dose of A-E (Angela’s encouragement…a friend who kept me positively focused through the ick of the ants), I took the…

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It was just me and my sister growing up. No boys. Just two girls, two years apart. My mom was and still is a phenomenal mother. She modeled motherhood brilliantly. Sadly, I didn’t have a model for two things: How to raise boys. How to raise five kids, homeschool, and maintain a home. And because…

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Ooh…that’s a pretty gripping heading, isn’t it? Well, it’s the sentence that ran through my head the other night. Let me explain. We were out doing late-afternoon errands. You know the type: Cub, Wal-Mart, pet store, that kind of stuff. Henry went into one store with one child and I kept the other four and…

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The title of this post is the first line of verse 8 in the fourth Psalm. And today I will lie down and sleep in peace because…MY BEDROOM IS CLEAN!! Yup! My dear sweet, amazing husband kept the toddling wonder-girl engaged for most of the day. That allowed me to make serious headway in the…

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I’m exhausted. My husband told me so a few months ago. He told me I was experiencing fatigue and that recovery takes time. He’s right. But it took me these few months to articulate it myself. We homeschool moms don’t like to admit defeat. And admitting, “I’m tired,” felt like I was surrendering. And in…

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Remember that line from Dori in Finding Nemo? It seems so simple, but most solutions are. Just keep swimming. I’m sort of in a place like that in my life right now. I want to just run away. I want to quit. I want to nap for a week. I want my husband to take…

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