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This homeschooling journey has been as much a learning experience for me as it has been for my children. One thing I have learned is the importance of understanding  my  strengths as a mom and teacher.  If our curriculum is made up of hands on projects requiring lots of intensive prep and clean-up...we ARE going to fail. It's a given, because, no thank you! Likewise, if it's nothing but pulling the next worksheet out of a book we won't do so well there either. The best homeschools thrive when everyone's style, including mom's, is taken into consideration.    In Teaching from Rest  (highly recommended!), Sarah Mackenzie uses the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 as a great example of this ( John 6:1-12 ). She encourages moms to come to the table with what they have. Jesus can take our little basket of fish and bread and use it to feed a multitude! We just have to bring our basket. Truth be told, I panicked when I read that the first time.  What is in...

When your job is to homeschool your three children, you end up spending a lot  of time together. Of course close sibling relationships is one of the benefits of our school of choice, so this is not a bad thing. But let's be real. All that quality time together means that eventually somebody is going to get on someone else's nerves! The other day I read a passage of Scripture that hit so close to home I laughed out loud. Maybe other mom's here can relate.  In Numbers 12, Miriam and Aaron, the big brother and sister of Moses, start complaining because Moses has a foreign wife.  Now this isn't new information to them.  He didn't go out for a weekend to blow off steam and come home married or anything. But all of a sudden Miriam and Aaron are bugged by it and start complaining, so the mother in me knows they were just trying to pick a fight. I love the end of verse two: "And the Lord heard them." In my home, I do my best not to referee every single ...