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How to Set your Heart Free from a Prison of Overabundance
Are You Imprisoned by Abundance? Have you ever looked around at American culture and noticed how much we truly have? From grocery store shelves to transportation to technology, our choices seem endless. Secular education is available to all, and jobs exist in fields I would never have imagined. Yet, in all this overabundance we are dissatisfied. The Struggle with Overabundance Someone else always has a bigger income or a nicer house or more popular clothes. Women, especially moms, exist in a pressure cooker of expectations. We are expected to work outside the home because we are told that success means having more and better than everyone else, while at the…
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Words Fail in Times of Grief
Reflections Upon Grief Words fail me. That’s how I’ve felt for about 2 and half years. Which says a lot for a writer/blogger. It’s been difficult for me to write. For the first few months it was due to the busy-ness related to caring for my parents during my dad’s illness. But, then dad passed. That day… the last 24 hours spent with him, 2 years ago today, changed me. Grief changed me. Writing is no longer easy for me. Every word is a struggle to pull together. I thought, I’ll get over this struggle in time… but it’s not gotten easier. Grief is strange. I know it’s a…
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20 Things to Not Do to Protect Your Marriage
Marriage looks different in every relationship. Why? Because every marriage is made up of two unique individuals. As such, we all bring something different to the marriage. A husband has his own ideas of what a marriage is supposed to be, and a wife will have her own. Each of those individuals thoughts are unique and different from every other couple in the world. together they form a bond and learn to work and grow toward each other. At least that’s the goal. Sadly, though too many people get caught up in not working together. Rather, they find themselves working against each other. But, it doesn’t have to be this…
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Web Resources for Parents of Gifted
Did you know that being a parent of gifted learners is not easy? In fact, sometimes it’s incredibly hard. I used to think something was wrong with me because I just couldn’t understand why my child acted so differently from other children his age. I mean, I knew he was smart. But, it seemed so strange for a 3 year old to write in perfect cursive without being taught to do so. And, what 6 y.o. reads encyclopedias for entertainment? Those things… are just… well, weirdly, yet excitedly, different. Right? And, the emotional differences were far different, and I simply didn’t understand it. I used to feel so very alone. I used…
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Educational Government Game that’s Full of Fun for the Whole Family
Did you know it’s possible to introduce an educational game to the family at game night and still have a rousing good time? I have to admit when I first learned of this government game I thought it would be great way to allow my son to explore a variety of government forms in a more hands-on way. But, I also thought that a game about democracy, republics, monarchies, and theocracies might be, well for lack of a better word, a bit dull. Boy was I wrong! I received this game for free in exchange for my honest review of this game. All opinions expressed are my own and I was not required to…
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Keeping Your Family Safe Online: Gryphon Update on Kickstarter
Do you remember a couple of weeks ago I shared with you the Easy to Use Parental Control Tool for Online Safety, Gryphon? I wanted to share with you a Gryphon update and let you know how their kickstarter campaign is going. It looks like the campaign is going very well, so far. This is a sponsored post about a product which I believe will be beneficial to homeschooling families. All opinions expressed are my own and are honest. I have been fairly compensated for my time in writing this post. In just 2 weeks, Gryphon is more than 75% to the funding goal on Kickstarter and has been featured in…
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Easy to Use Parental Control Tool for Online Safety Coming Soon
As my child has gotten older and has been allowed more freedom online to explore his own interests and enter the age of social media usage I am becoming ever more concerned for his online safety. Of course, his dad and I have done as much research as possible and implemented as many kid-safe protections as we can. Still, we worry. We want to protect his eyes and heart from seeing and experiencing things that are inappropriate. More so, we want to ensure that he doesn’t fall victim to online predators. This is a sponsored post about a product which I believe will be beneficial to homeschooling families. All opinions expressed are…
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10 Powerful Scriptures for Training your Son’s Heart for Responsibility
With Free Responsibility Scripture Art Printables In our home, we’ve been focused on training our young man in responsibility for his future role as a husband, provider, and leader. Training a boy to be responsible can be a difficult task. This can be especially true for moms. For some reason, boys tend to “buck up” and listen when dad speaks more so than when mom does. It could be this way with girls too, but as a boy mom, I only speak from my own experience. God has created them with a specific purpose. He desires men to be leaders in the home and in our churches. They’ve got buried deep…
