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My Mom
Today would have been my Mom’s 91st birthday. She died in 2019 at 85 after an extended illness. That’s usually how we write it up — “an extended illness.” It took us all together as a family to care for her and I lost my Mama a long time before she died. She had a…
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I HAVE NOTHING LEFT
Recently, one of my kids was talking about growing up and telling funny stories, and then the kid said this, “I can remember you saying, ‘I am just so drained! I have nothing left!’” I thought about that conversation for several days. It was rather convicting for me. Truth be told, some of those early…
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I Do Teach
Some people over the years have asked me if I actually teach. Yes, in our homeschool I actually teach this stuff. Honestly, I don’t teach everything all the time. Some of my kids have taken online courses, or video courses from time to time, but yes, school happens here. I think this is a funny…
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Christmas Has Been here
“You wouldn’t know Christmas had been here.” At first, that sounded great. I had picked the Saturday right after Christmas to take down Christmas. That was a little early, but it would mean that New Year’s Day would be free and it meant that when we started up our homeschool again, we wouldn’t have to…