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I am a homeschooling mom of three. I blog about the daily ins and outs of life with the kids and life with a daughter that has a sensory disorder. I love cooking and post lots of recipes and pics of my dishes. I take the reader through the grueling days o
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Tink talks
So life goes on. A good cry. A good prayer. A good soak in the tub and lots of introspection and I am ready to move on. I havent watched TV for two days. It's amazing how quickly I slipped into my old...
The Path to Fluent Reading
is strewn with many obstacles for the learning disabled child.When I was a child reading was my favorite past time. I was on the hurting end of a spanking many times because I was reading instead of w...
Happiness lasts for a night; then comes the day
Sometimes husbands just know what to do to make their wives happy; other times it seems they haven't got a clue. Last night was one of the times my husband did it all right! We had an excellent dinner...
Perspective
It was time to get dinner. The house was crawling with kids; my two grandkids and Peter with two of his friends. The phone rings. It's Tink. "Mom, we are just now leaving the tree farm so we're going ...
Regrouping
Today is cold and windy. It's been so hard to get Tink to study lately. She somehow lost her momentum. A lot of that is due to school changes here at home. Katy and Kimberly are both done with tutorin...
Can we talk?
I didn't have any students today so I spent the day cleaning and and doing laundry. Ironing always takes up a good portion of the day, The afternoon is fast sliding into evening. I have about half an ...
Tink Talks
Its Home Education week at Principled Discovery. Today we are sharing our homeschool from our children's eyes. Here is what Tink has written. Tink is 11 years old but is academically all over the boar...
Home Education Week
I do plan on answering your burning questions to both my Emergency Preparedness post and Keeping The Home, but I must pause a minute to join Home Education Week that is sponsored by Principled Discov...
Tink and the Forgotten Valentines
Is the day over yet? What a day! Tiger lily, Tink and I ran out to Peters Valentine party at school this afternoon. It was a hokey little affair but Peter loved it so that's all that mattered. He spen...
The story of Daniel with a twist
Just when I think Tink is beginning to comprehend the things that she has learned I am jolted out of my stupor with this one.Tink has her quiet time every night by reading the Bible in a Bible Story b...
Learning Obedience
I cant even tell you how many times in my 25 years of parenting I have said these words; "If you'd only obey, life would be so much easier for you!" But each child has to continue to push the rules an...
Thank you, Mr. Falker
It was a rainy morning in early December. I gathered the children together and with books in hand we crawled under the feather quilt on the big bed in the master bedroom. The wind drove the rain again...
The vexation of Math
I have no idea how I will ever teach Tink to do story problems. Her mind goes on overload whenever I even begin. There are too many words and too many steps. It matters not how I word it or how I rest...
