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| May 26th, 2007 |
| Have you ever had one of those days when you just felt
"blah"? Usually they hit just about the
time your 6 year old catches what your 8 year old has
just gotten over and you're beginning to feel the
sniffles and a head cold coming on.
It's at that point that a break from school looks pretty
inviting. But what do you do? Do you give yourself that
well-deserved rest? Or do you come up with some ingenious way
to stay on schedule and, in the words of this week's writer,
keep the school lamp burning?
We want to know what ingenious ideas and key
resources help you, as a homeschool mom, survive
on your battlefront with germs to the right of you
and colds to the
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Something Special
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| How do you keep the school lamp
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Hi
Minute to Minute Readers,
This is our third year of homeschooling. We do love
it! We have loved discovering that it's not just SCHOOL AT
HOME! We have had a 98% life change (2% being we are
still the same family members and still the same parents to
our kids!) in the last year. Homeschooling is 'flexible,' but
I would have to say as 'newbies' we have taken that to a whole
new level!!
So my question--yes, I do have one and am
not just 'sharing' even though I would love to!--to other moms
is, "How have THEY handled the diversities of life and still
kept the school lamp burning?"
Dealing with sickness for example (long term and short,
then from ONE KID TO THE NEXT, and then oh, no -
YOU!!) It is the big one for us especially this time of
year! Especially if you have moved and are dealing with
the first year, "What are you allergic to here?" thoughts.
This of course now occurs to me a bit sooner as a more, as I
like to call, 'doctorate mom' than it did before, when I just
thought they had lots of colds.... LOTS and LOTS! Ick. Haha!
So just thought that as I am going through some of this some
other moms might be too.
One of my favorite stories in my 'nightstand'
staple, Devotions for Homeschool Moms, is about when
a homeschool mom was sick for months (!!) and how
she 'did school' with her kids on her bed, on the couch,
etc....! I honestly cannot easily imagine that without older
daughters for one. Ahahah! But seriously it does
continue to touch my heart when I don't think I am 'doing
enough'!! ;-)
I thank God for you being such a blessing
to me!
Darcy, a newbie homeschool
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| Devotional Resources |
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Who has time to pray and get into the Bible?
Mother, with a job like yours, who has time not
to?
Momma's Guide to Quiet Times in Loud
Households, by Kimberly Eddy, is an
exciting guide to diving into a devotional lifestyle with the
Lord that will not only sustain us as we raise the next
generation for Christ, but will enhance a devotional lifestyle
that we can pass along to our children as they grow up.
If your devotional life needs some new life infused into it,
this book is for you!
Penny Raine from Tennessee says, "Even
though I had already found the same answers before
reading this book, it reminded me of my favorite place,
on my front porch in a rocking chair, with a baby on my lap
singing to the Lord. I still need reminding sometimes that
Jesus meets me there."
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Now, I'm sure you know where Darcy's coming from. If you
have some helpful insight or a quick remedy for when
the school lamp burns low please email us so we can help Darcy keep
her school lamp burning. When you email us you give us permission to post
your responses in Minute to Minute and send your responses to
Darcy.
Sincerely, |
Paul and Gena Suarez, Publishers
The Old Schoolhouse
Magazine | | |
