New From Old – The Beauty in the Remaking

My husband has recently started making things out of reclaimed wood.  He takes his time and care with each piece to remake a cast out piece of wood into a treasure in our house.  As I was contemplating 2 Corinthians 5:17 the other day, I realized that we are much like that cast off piece…

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Flourish in Your Faith – You Are A Masterpiece Mixed Media Workshop

I’ve been thinking on the concept of fostering faith a lot recently. It is so easy to get sidetracked in life by debilitating fears, all-consuming distractions, or faulty thinking. Days and days go by without any self-care, much less any faith-care, and you can easily find yourself in a wilderness of doubt without even knowing how…

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Top 10 Essential Oils and How We Use Them

I never imagined that we would be oil users in our household, but crazier things have happened. I had misconceptions and doubts about the benefits of the oils, but once you’ve used them and experienced their blessings, there’s no turning back. I am in no way a health care professional. I’m a Dr. Mom who has…

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Fostering Faith not Fear in our Sons

It’s been a tough year teaching my 15 year old son.  Although we’ve been together in this homeschool journey for the past seven years, this year brought about difficulties I wasn’t prepared for…and it’s not on the academic side of things. While I’ve been working on loosening my mom grip and letting him become a…

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Family is not a noun. It’s a verb.

Last week at the Great Homeschool Convention, I had the opportunity to hear Ann Voscamp speak.  One of the beautiful nuggets of wisdom that I wrote down from her talk was” Family isn’t a noun, but a verb.   It’s not a thing, but an action that we do.   I’ve experienced beautiful expressions of…

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