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A Day In Our Life – School
A day in our life can bring many things. This week (because so many of you have asked for it – be careful what you wish for people!), I want to tell you a little about what our day to day actually...
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A Day In Our Life – One of Those Days
I once read a day in the life post by a mom of four who seriously had it together. I mean really. She was up early, went for a jog, cooked a spinach quiche for her kids for breakfast, and read poetry...
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How We Incorporate Play Into Everyday Learning
“I neeeeeeeeeed to move around while you are reading to me, Momma. It’s how I listen,” my youngest child said to me, spinning in circles as I tried to get him to sit down with me on the couch and pay...
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Teaching My Dyslexic Child To Read
I was finally done, fed up, tired, and over it. My youngest screamed that he hated me, and didn’t I know how hard it was for him to practice reading? I wanted to scream back, “Yeah? Well you don’t know...
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My Love-Hate Relationship With Screen Time
This week is “Screen-Free” week. Or around here, “Feel Like A Bad Mom” week. When I think about the amount of time my children spend on screens, my head hurts. The guilt. The assurance that I am...
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When It Feels Like We Are Never Home
As you know, this has been a crazy season for my family. Well, even more crazy than usual I guess. My oldest son, who has High Functioning Autism, was also recently diagnosed with an autoimmune...
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Getting Ready For A New Homeschool Year
In just about one week, we will be starting our fifth year learning at home. In some weird way, it makes me feel old just typing that… like when the young mom talks about how her toddler gets into all...
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Not The Former Things Top 5 Most Asked Questions (and their answers!)
Over the course of the past few months, I have received so many messages from y’all. I LOVE them. I LOVE being able to connect with actual people. I LOVE that you even care enough to comment, email and...
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Our Days and Depression
As I woke, I felt a familiar dread spread throughout my body. I had barely opened my eyes, but already felt anxious and sad about what the day would bring. I wanted to turn over, pull the covers over...
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Sometimes I Just Need to Say a Prayer and Eat Some Chocolate
I stayed up way too late last night with certain child of mine obsessing about king snakes and crested geckos…again. As he started to tell me all about the law in California that allows Field Herping....
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Different By Design
The only way I make it through the chores of the day sometimes (especially laundry… and maybe the dishes… and possibly cleaning the bathrooms...), is by turning on a podcast and listening to another...
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My Top Picks For Resources That “Get It”
When I first heard the news of my boys’ diagnoses, I really struggled. Not just because it was so hard to accept – although it was and sometimes still is. I also struggled, because it was so difficult...
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The Definition of Insanity and Motherhood
My first serious boss, at my first serious job, used to repeat it over and over. It was a mantra to try new approaches, to work harder, to get the job done. A few years later, when I was now the...
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I heard a friend say once that if it wasn’t for her children, she would be the best mom. Ha! and Yes! Too often I find myself thinking, “If he would only ______________.” If he would only stop melting...
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Am I Qualified To Homeschool My Child With Special Needs?
“Aren’t you worried that you are keeping him from really getting the help he needs?” “You don’t want your son to miss out on the professional help the school system provides.” “How can you possibly...
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Setting Realistic Goals For The New Year
I love celebrating a new year. There is something about a fresh start, a blank slate, a new beginning – it makes me feel hopeful. It makes me feel free to try new things and begin again. And, every...
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Reading Aloud In Our Home
I know you’ve seen them. The studies that show over and over again that reading with our kids is a really, really big deal. It informs so much about them and their future success, not only in school,...
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My Love-Hate Relationship With Routines
Y’all, the holiday season took. its. toll. I mean really. After a road trip that lasted two weeks, all the fun that comes with seeing family, kids being spoiled rotten, and eating whatever and...
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Invite Shawna Wingert To Speak At Your Next Women’s Event
When I was in first grade, my teacher called me “chatty fox”. She wasn’t wrong. I am a chatty fox. In fact, I write only because at heart, I am a speaker. Over the course of this last year, I have...
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What Faith Looks Like When You Are A Mom
I am preparing to speak next week about ‘Faith and Fear in Motherhood’. As I have prayed about what to say and how to say it, one thing keeps occurring to me – Faith looks nothing like the pretty...
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