-
A Homeschool Writing Curriculum that Takes the Fear Out of Writing
For years now I’ve been telling you that writing is a struggle in our homeschool. Each year I set off to find the perfect homeschool writing solution to help my son get over the fear of writing. But today, I’m not going to tell you about the struggle. Why? Because we’ve finally solved the problem and taken the fear out of homeschool writing. Yes! You read that right. We’ve finally found the best solution to help my son go from a reluctant, hesitant, and sometimes angry writer, to a willing participant in the writing process. I received this product for free and am being fairly compensated for my time in…
-
5 Tips for Stewarding a Child’s Heart
As moms we are given a responsibility like no other, we are to be stewarding our child’s heart. Our role as their mom is to instill within the heart love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness and self control. We are to set them on a path that will lead to a productive and fruitful adult life. While doing so, we are to protect their hearts and minds from being contaminated with the antithesis of those traits: hatred, sorrow, discord, impatience, cruelty, and instability. This post contains affiliate advertisement links to 3rd party sites. A steward is one who is given responsibility. Generally, it is used in reference to being a steward…
-
15 Bacon Recipes for Trim Healthy Mamas
Who doesn’t love bacon? I mean the crispy, salty, savory goodness that is bacon just makes your mouth water! Doesn’t it? I sure does mine. So I wanted to pull together a grouping of Bacon Recipes that can easily fit with the Trim Healthy Mama lifestyle! This post contains affiliate advertisement links to 3rd party sites. The great thing about the Trim Healthy Mama plan is that you don’t have to sacrifice flavor for healthy eating. In fact, they teach you how to balance your healthy fats with healthy carbs so you get the best of both worlds.
-
LEGO Therapy Ideas for Special Needs Children
LEGO® Bricks are such a versatile toy. We all know that they make great educational tools because kids love them so much they don’t realize they are learning while playing with them. Additionally, they make great tools for LEGO Therapy for fine, and gross motor development. They also can be used for vision training, speech training, and so much more. These versatile toys, the simple LEGO Bricks are being used by therapists and moms alike to help special needs children. This post contains affiliate advertisement links to 3rd party sites. I reached out to a friend of mine, Colby, to ask her if she would share some tips for using LEGO for…
-
Introducing the Elephant Poaching Crisis to Homeschool Students
You know that in our family we purpose to spend time together as a family. What that looks like is a variety of family time activities depending on what’s going on in our world. This month our family time was a family movie night that also doubled as a lesson in elephant poaching. When you have a child who has emotional sensitivities it can be hard to introduce concepts related to elephant poaching. Which is why having something visual, that explains the situation in a lighthearted way, can be a great solution to introduce hard concepts. Teaching difficult concepts is easier when you weave together a learning experience that incorporates…
-
15 Zoodle Recipes You Can Alter to Stay on the THM Plan
I’ve recently discovered that convenience of frozen zucchini noodles. When you are eating low-carb, zucchini noodles, a.k.a. zoodles, are a wonderful alternative to pasta. They are versatile and can be used in a wide variety of recipes. I’ve gathered 15 Zoodle recipes that can easily be used or adapted to low-carb diets. This post contains affiliate advertisement links to 3rd party sites. Since the first of the year I’ve started eating on the Trim Healthy Mama Plan again. For anyone unfamiliar with this plan it’s basics is a low-glycemic index diet. But you’ll learn the value of healthy fats in your diet and how to balance those with healthy carbs.…
-
Set Your Minds: Worship in Spirit and Truth
O’ Worship the King Worship is not about ourselves. It is not about how we feel or how it makes us feel. Worship is to give honor to God through adoring reverence. Worship is about adoring HIM. We Praise Him through the act of expressing our adoration of HIM. Worship is not about me, it is not about you, it is about Him. Doing this requires us to humble ourselves and magnify Him. “I will praise the name of God with a song, an will magnify Him with thanksgiving.” Psalm 69:30.** When giving honor and praise to the God of all creation, how should we do so? In the book of John we…
-
Set Your Minds: Why Worship?
Why do we worship? We’ve previously looked at preparing our physical surroundings, preparing the things we need, preparing breakfast and preparing our minds. To continue on, I want to turn our focus to the purpose of worship as we learn to “SET YOUR MIND ON THINGS ABOVE.” Have you asked yourself, ‘Why Sunday?’ As we read through scripture we see that in the Old Testament from the very beginning God sanctified the Sabbath day. He set it apart as Holy because it was on the seventh day that He rested from all the labor that He had done. In a previous post I wrote about the importance of the First Day…
