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Mid-Year Classroom Redo
Updating for a Fresh Look with a Classroom Redo If you are a regular reader, you know that in the winter we burn firewood as our main heat source. This particular winter has been especially cold for Ohio. So in order to conserve heat, we closed off the classroom and moved the learning to the dining room. But the classroom…
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Marriage Moment: The Lord’s Provisions
This year our resolve to TRUST in the Lord’s provision is being tested. He has proven true and faithful over and over. With husbands job loss comes financial strain. We at first never imagined that he wouldn’t quickly find a full-time position. But as the days passed to weeks and then weeks into months it seems more likely that this…
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Training Up in Worship: From Infancy
Early in the year I did a series called Set Your Minds which focused on preparing your minds for Sunday morning worship. I want to begin a new series focusing on training up our children in worship. The Lord blesses families with children. But, with the blessing comes responsibility. God created man so that we will choose to worship and praise…
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This Week… Progress
As you can see I have made some changes to the blog. I really like the simpler look of this template. I’ve played with the code for a long time trying to get that banner to stretch across the top or even centered, and this is the best I’ve got. If anyone has suggestions on that, I’m totally open to…
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Ten Random Thoughts
I’m having random thoughts today. 1. I was terribly sick yesterday. I slept for over 20 hours, then got up at 9:25 last evening. I stayed up for 7 hours then went back to sleep and slept for 6 1/2 hours. I guess the near month long insomnia fest of February finally caught up with me. So hopefully I…
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Marriage Moment: Mama Says
I’m sorry this post is going up so late today. I haven’t been feeling well and spent most of today in bed. Now on to Marriage Moment:I recently was blessed to spend a couple of weeks at my mom and dads. They have been blessed to be married for over 56 years. While there I explained to my mom about…
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A Change of Time
It’s Spring Forward Sunday morning. It’s very early as I’m up and about getting ready for worship. I’m tired after losing an hour of sleep. AND we decided to get up early because I have some prep work to do for the Bible class that I teach before the start of class. Little Man spent the weekend with his grandparents…
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This Week…Slow and Steady
This week at Great Peace Academy, Little Man worked very steadily all week. He also worked very slowly. Sometimes I struggle with knowing how to balance letting him work diligently with encouraging him to work faster. Do I morph the lesson plan to let him work at his own pace or do I hold him to the lesson plan and…
