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Organizing Clothing for My Large Clan

Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Habits Training, Living the Family-Centered Life, tagged , on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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Reusable workbooks

Posted in Designing the School Spaces, Elegant Simplicity, Family Centered Homeschooling, Getting ready for School!, tagged , on July 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Some of my favorite workbooks can be so expensive to purchase 8 times (or more!) so I have found that an inexpensive option is making them re-usable by laminating them.
I am placing each dismantled sheet in a letter-sized laminating pouch and feeding it to my inexpensive duck laminator (that I purchased from [...]

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A visual learner’s narration idea…

Posted in Designing the School Spaces, Elegant Simplicity, Family Centered Homeschooling, Fun Schooling, Getting ready for School!, Living History, Making Studies come alive!, Notebooking Your Studies on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I and several of my dc are very visual learners. I hit up the thrift store recently and found a collection of small photo books (the kind that looks like a bunch of page protectors in a stiff cover) (Move over Pottery Barn Kids…learning spaces I covet on a regular basis [:$] )
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Back in the Saddle Again!

Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Family Centered Homeschooling, Real Living on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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The loveliness of lesson planning

Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Family Centered Homeschooling, Getting ready for School!, Habits Training, Living the Family-Centered Life, Making Studies come alive! on August 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »

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The loveliness of lesson planning

Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Family Centered Homeschooling, Getting ready for School!, Habits Training, Living the Family-Centered Life, Making Studies come alive! on August 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »

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God’s Haircut

Posted in Elegant Simplicity on May 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Have you ever gone to confession and come out of church feeling like you just got a great haircut?  I mean, all of that emotional baggage was just whisked away and left you with a deep sense of well-being and peace?
Well, God showed me today that He intends to do that for me in a [...]

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The True Fruits of a Family-Centered Life

Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Living the Family-Centered Life, Real Living, Tending to Virtue on April 16, 2007 | 18 Comments »

I just couldn’t get motivated today  so I am indulging a musing mood today. 
I am contemplating the new normal my family is creating and I am liking what I see…thorns in little things and all.  I am beginning to think we are like pioneers and the blessings that accompany this life are worth the [...]

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The Contemplative life in the Domestic Monastery?

Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Living the Family-Centered Life, Tending to Virtue on March 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Just some random thoughts….more on the Domestic Monastery…
I have a lot of great ideas…well planned wonderful fruitful things that always seem to get rained out by real life.  I remember an actor once saying that he would not work with children and small animals because they would "steal the show".  I know how he [...]

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The Singing House

Posted in Elegant Simplicity on October 26, 2006 | 11 Comments »

The Singing House
by May Morgan Potter

Fred ate his breakfast dutifully and then slipped down from his chair.
‘Now can I go over to Jimmy’s, mother?’ he asked.
‘But Fred,’ I said, ‘you were over there yesterday and the day before. Why not have Jimmy come here today?’
‘Oh, he wouldn’t want to.’ Fred’s lip quivered in spite [...]

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