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Are Stay-at-Home Moms Burying their Talents? (Part Three)

Filed under Motherhood by Kimberly on September 17, 2009 at 3:02 am {no comments}

There’s an unspoken implication when speaking of a stay at home mom “burying” her talents, if she is only using her talents at home. The implication is the false idea that talents only count when used in the public sphere, or when done for pay. From a Biblical perspective, stop for a moment and consider [...]

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Are Stay at Home Moms Burying their Talents? (Part Two)

Filed under Motherhood by Kimberly on September 16, 2009 at 2:42 am {no comments}

One of the things you can’t always see clearly when you are a Stay at home mom with toddlers, questioning whether or not you’ve made the right choice, is this reality that in life there are different seasons. We tend to want to experience everything life has to offer right now, this instant. We tend [...]

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Are Mothers Burying their Talents at home? (Part One)

Filed under Motherhood by Kimberly on September 15, 2009 at 2:29 am {no comments}

Are Stay at Home Moms burying their talents?

Early motherhood was a huge adjustment for me. I was used to being productive, and keeping busy with different things, and I didn’t really have much of a concept as to how to experience that “productive” feeling while home with my children. I was at home all day long with toddlers, and some days, before [...]

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Panorama in the Sunflower Fort

Filed under Art, Homeschooling by Kimberly on September 13, 2009 at 10:04 pm {no comments}

This summer, we planted another sunflower fort. We drew a large square on the ground (about 4×4), and planted sunflower seeds and pre-soaked morning glory seeds into that area, so that they would grow up together. The sunflowers would form the walls, and the morning glories will wrap around them, taking over, and pulling them [...]

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5 Ways to Encourage a Struggling Reader

Filed under Homeschooling by Kimberly on April 29, 2009 at 11:25 pm {no comments}

Books in Winter Jessie Willcox-Smith If you have more than one child, then you probably have notice by now that no two children from the same gene pool are cookie cutter duplicates of each other. Sure, there may be similarities, but it just blows me away sometimes when I think of how differently each of [...]

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