Do you need some parenting tips to gain a little perspective on your crazy life right now. It will not always be like this! In the thick of parenting, it is so easy to get caught up in the moment and focus on all the little things that aren’t going right with our kids. Whether […]
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How We Started Our Homeschool Journey Have you ever stumbled on a blog and wished you could know the person in real life. I have. So, I want to try to share more about myself so you get an idea of me and my family and our homeschool and educational journey. We have 9 children.
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What does that even mean…Everybody Homeschools? Years ago, when I was in the thick of raising little kids (we had 7 kids ages 9 and under!), homeschooling, and foster parenting, I came across a book that argued that every parent homeschools. I immediately dismissed the idea at face value. NOT EVERYONE was buying curriculum, making
If you need to prepare for a fostering or adoption home study, it helps to know what kind of information you will need to share as you go through the process. From paperwork, the questions and background checks, expect to give your case workers a lot of information! What is a Home study? What is
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A rite of passage that most people experience at some point is getting a job. Why wait until adulthood to work? If possible, teenagers should get a job because of the many social skills and life skills they can learn before they launch out on their own. Many parents are not sure if their child should
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(Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive a small commission from items purchased through the links below) Scrolling through Amazon, I was quickly skimming to see if there were any books on adoption that jumped out at me. We started our fostering journey in 2010 and adoption in 2013. Right now, I’m in a season of reflecting
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If you are new to fostering or just beginning the process, you may wonder what is back to school like in foster care? Over the years, several of our foster children were school-aged. This is a distinctly different experience than having preschool or infant foster children because children going to school are going into yet
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Several months ago, I made a “contract” with my teen foster child. After our foster daugther had been here about a month, it became apparent that there were some serious issues that nearly caused a placement disruption. We were dealing with issues common to kids in foster care like stealing, lying and deception. Initially I handled
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Continued from Part 1 of When God Whispers – Our Adoption Story Idealism Meets Reality –(The part where fostering is so much harder than we could have imagined.) Our double adoption began with fostering. We said “yes” to the CALL…and they came. The social worker arrived first followed shortly by Sadie and Abel with their
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Like many stories, our double adoption story does not have a concrete beginning. I think I have wanted to adopt since I was a child. But, this adoption…the one where we add two blessings to our family, began in early 2006. By God’s grace, we had found a buyer for our small bungalow house right before
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