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Posted in Homeschooling, Mothers on Apr 21st, 2009
This year marks a milestone for our family-twenty years of homeschooling. This former public school teacher didn’t plan to homeschool, it just sort of happened. My three-year-old daughter stood before me and begged me to teach her to read her Bible. That’s all the motivation I needed. So we began our homeschooling journey. [...]
The radio counselor made a case for not over-scheduling our kids. I rolled my eyes and snapped back at the radio, What about kids who over-schedule their moms? I dropped off my special needs daughter at her transitional life skills class before I got gas again, ran to the bank, paid bills, stopped at [...]
Posted in Celebration, Love, Mothers on Dec 8th, 2008
I received another one. A text that to most anyone else would be all nonsense. Dmwajtgpajtdmwajtgpajtdmwa…. Four lines. It’s almost always the same. The letters are the same, in the same order. And it means the same thing. My husband and kids also get the same text. Sometimes multiple times a day. No, [...]
Posted in Mothers on Aug 24th, 2008
Life was good. I had a mom and a dad, two okay brothers, and a pet beagle. Frizzy hair in a spaghetti-straight world was bearable as long as my family and friends didn’t make a big deal of it. Then, Mom and Dad’s marriage broke up before my twentieth birthday. “Mom, I’m home!” [...]