Author Archives: aheartforhomeschooling

Have you realized it yet?!?Allllll those math lessons really truly ARE important!Long division, three digit multiplication, even fractions!But one of the most important functions we need is to “carry the one”. Those of us who learned old Math remember that when you add 27 plus 89 you think to yourself, “Seven plus nine is sixteen.  Write downContinue reading “Carry the One”

Swimming poolLakeHot tubThe beachA water park Are you with me? What about this lineup:FloodsStormsDrizzleDownpours Not a fan?What’s the difference? Choice.Control. Perspective is a powerful tool. Hang up your towel, dive deep in to God’s will and be immersed into His good plan! “Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in whatContinue reading “Water Water Everywhere”

I hang out with a lot of preschoolers these days and I love it!  I love their unending joy and zeal for life – and dinosaurs – and baby dolls – and snack!  Their impulsivity, however, often results in their caregivers reminding them to slow and down and use their words.  Don’t grab or whineContinue reading “Use Your Words…or Don’t”

Slightly green?Only yellow?Or brown spots? You want to shake up your friendship?  Have a conversation about the perfect banana!  HA!  It may sound silly, but our expectations and preferences can have a strong influence.  Influence on our relationships and influence even within ourselves.  Our contentment. You see, if we will ONLY eat a banana that is the perfectContinue reading “Bananas”

How do you know you are doing a good job?At life?At your goal?Your budget?Your diet?Your job? It has been said that what gets measured gets celebrated. It’s easy to measure money and time and miles and pounds – not so easy to measure kindness or devotion or respect or grace.  So how do we know “how” we areContinue reading “The Scale”

Whyyyyy are bad habits so hard to break and yet good habits so easy to break!?!?   Allow your 8 year old child to skip brushing their teeth before bed ONE TIME due to crazy unforeseen circumstances….they will NEVER brush their teeth again….EVER!!!  Buttttttt drive thru a remote ice cream store 50 miles from home and you/yourContinue reading “The Funnel”

Let’s gather together as many transition in to a new school year – whatever that looks like this year:  first timers, last timers, new schoolers, homeschoolers, freshmen away from home, online at home, new jobs, old jobs, traffic tangles, last minute retail, meal prep, endless paperwork and everything in between!  Praying for children and teachersContinue reading “Happy New Year!”

It’s that very special time of year…..it’s time for first days:  first day of Kindergarten…first day of a new school year…first day of college….first time for empty days and empty nests.  How did time fly so quickly?  Where has summer gone? Let’s not allow any more time to slip by.  Let’s embrace and celebrate eachContinue reading “New Seasons”

Have you ever held a young chick?  One that looks so soft and fluffy and sweet and cute?  After closer inspection, however, you realize that the chick’s feathers are a little stinky!  The downy softness may even be matted down a bit.  What does this little chick need?  This little chick needs its mother toContinue reading “Stinky Feathers”

It was the cutest little sunflower blossom getting ready to open, grown naturally and freely right next to my sidewalk.  Until one night….a deer came along and bit the flower right off!  How did it even know it was there!? But God!!! The deer actually blessed me!  You see, that one little blossom, chomped offContinue reading “Thwarted!”