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My Father's World--The Letter X (foX)
My Father's World curriculum uses the word fox to teach the letter X, because so few words start with the actual letter, especially words relating to nature studies. The key words are, "God's Word...
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My Father's World--The Letter V (Vegetables)
For V week we studied vegetables and our key words were "God gives me all that I need."Though we haven't had a garden of our own yet, we are thankful to be able to participate in Bountiful Baskets food...
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Here's where I'm at with my Book List so far:The New Testament of the Bible (ongoing)The MoneySaving Mom's Budget by Crystal Paine EXCELLENT!Kisses from Katie by Katie DavisThe Mission of Motherhood...
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Summer is here!
This is what happens when you give a baby one little Hershey's kiss and tell her to pop it in her mouth and not get sticky! Uncle Grant (whom my kids call Uncle Googoo) was trying to win Little Miss...
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Little Graces
Life is full of those precious little moments that you want to hang onto...those little graces in your day that whisper of God's goodness...A little sis wanting to be like big sisBrother and sister...
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The Highlight of My Week...
Okay, I admit that often it's the littlest things that make a weary mom smile and find the strength to go on. When photographing this awesome young man who just graduated from his homeschool studies,...
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My Father's World--The Letter Q (Quail)
A little over a month ago we did our second-to-last week of school and the focus was the letter Q.We enjoyed learning all about birds, but it was difficult to find any books on quail at the library....
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Splish Splash Splat
Last week, when babysitting for a friend for a day, I decided to challenge the kids to some "water olympics." To get the older kids more excited about swimming in our small pool, I pulled out my...
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My Father's World--The Letter Y (Yellow and colors)
I didn't realize 10 months ago how big of a challenge it would be to keep up with blogging our MFW lessons! It seems that I procrastinate more and more as the year goes on. I'm finally finishing up...
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Ouch....
Now that you've heard about the highlight of my month, let me tell you about the low-light of my month. Over a week ago I was googling this in desperation after playing a little bit of softball. As...
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Twenty-nine!
My sweetie pie turned 29 a few days ago. He got a TOMTOM from his folks. It certainly was the perfect gift for him, as he loves to spend hours upon hours planning trips and plotting routes. My only...
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Where There is Smoke...
The last two nights I've gone to bed early with a headache from the smoke that has filled our town. We've had to have the 5 Day Clubs indoors and in the midst of this smoke coming from miles away from...
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A Moment for our Marriage
On June 23rd we celebrated 9 years of marriage! It sure feels like it went by sooo quickly! Much of the last nine years have been a sleepless haze of caring for infants and toddlers; but we're...
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A Tasty Meal
Inspired by Lindsay's post on making gyros at Passionate Homemaking, I decided to make these for our last meal with my brother and his family before they head to their next missionary assignment in...
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An Education in Fun
Summer is a time for Bible clubs in the park and having young missionaries over for meals......a time for lifelong friendships to form... ...a time for learning to share with cousins.Summer is a time...
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Summer School Schedule
At the beginning of the summer I had such grand plans for how our summer learning was going to go...as usual. I had a chart written on the chalkboard that I'm sure looked impressive to everyone who...
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Friends
The other day I was thinking about friends and what a blessing they are.It's so hard to see friends going through trials, especially all at the same time.Sometimes I don't even realize how much I allow...
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Article 6
The other day I saw the girls playing together and said, "Awww, are you guys going to be best friends someday?"Alathia replied, "We are right now Mom!"(Here they are wearing dress-up skirts that were...
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Eggs, Toast, and Music
We usually have scrambled eggs for a dinner meal in our home. I'm not a morning person, my husband doesn't like hot breakfasts, I've never been a big egg-eater, and so we've done mostly cereal,...
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