homeschool

Take Time To Celebrate!

June 10, 2013

How Do You Celebrate? I live a busy life, no question about that.  I’m a full-time, stay-at-home-homeschool-mom of 5, assist my husband full-time in our ministry in Micronesia, and run a successful online health and wellness business.  I live by schedules and plans – it’s the only way I can get through each day!  But […]

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Yes There’s Hope! Fitness for Busy Moms

May 9, 2013

  Fitness for Busy Moms I’m a busy mom!  And since you’re reading this article titled, “Fitness for Busy Moms”, most likely you are a busy mom yourself!  As for me, I have 5 kids, homeschool, assist my husband in our ministry here on the island of Pohnpei (where we are missionaries), and run a […]

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I Am Mom

May 6, 2013

   I Am Mom This past weekend we had a 5K race.  We were really looking forward to this race (my husband, three older children, and I) as we’d all been working hard to improve our 5K times.  Early Saturday morning though I was awakened by a fussy 3 year old running a fever – […]

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Kids Health: Giving Your Kids a Legacy of Love

April 9, 2013

This past weekend was World Health Day, so in honor of that we took some time out of our regular homeschool day schedule to focus on kids health.  Part of our activities included watching the film, “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead”.  To simply say the movie was good would be the understatement of the year! […]

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Challenges: When Life Throws You a Curveball

March 26, 2013

The New  Year, 2013 started out great in our home!  We had big plans and much to look forward to.  I was on top of the world with my health and fitness and meeting my goals.  Homeschool was going great with the kids and I was gradually getting more organized in every area of life! […]

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Priorities: Putting First Things First

August 22, 2012

It’s been quite a summer!  I had big plans of all I wanted to accomplish during our few months off from homeschooling.  And big plans of all the fun we were going to have as a family.  What I hadn’t planned on, was getting sick.  It started as just a little cough, but it just […]

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Time For a Time Out

September 27, 2010

I get so wrapped up sometimes in all that I have going on in my life – homeschooling, housekeeping, coaching, etc. – that I forget to take time out and just have fun. We schedule in our homeschool calendar times that we just take a break from the work and get outside, whether it be […]

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Apple Cinnamon Muffins

October 29, 2009

One of my family’s favorites!  These Apple Cinnamon Muffins are amazing hot and fresh from the oven! Ingredients: ½ cup apple sauce (natural, unsweetened) 2 Tbsp. coconut oil 1/3 cup brown sugar or organic cane sugar 2 eggs 1 cup milk 1 tsp. vanilla 2 cups whole wheat flour 1 Tbsp. baking powder 1 tsp. […]

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Slow Cooker Applesauce

October 7, 2009

With fall in the air, what’s better than the smells and tastes of homemade slow cooker applesauce!  We’re enjoying our Apple Adventures here at our house with our homeschool apple week. So yesterday, we tried our hand at homemade slow cooker applesauce. The kids really enjoyed this! So we’re sharing the recipe here with you […]

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An Apple A Day…

October 3, 2009

I homeschool my three oldest children and this year we divided the school year into 2-4 week segments with a theme for each division. We will be researching and studying the topic in addition to the regular academic work we have. Our current theme is apples! So I decided to post here some of what […]

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