Sunday Reflections: School is Back

Sunday Reflections

This post may include affiliate links.  See my full disclosure policy for more details. Life at the Strauss House… School started back this week: our first week of Challenge 1 with our Classical Conversations community. The girls don’t start It’s been great to get everyone back into the rhythm of getting up and learning together. Where I’m…

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How does Kindle Whispersync work?

This post may contain affiliate links.  Please see my full disclosure policy for more details. Have you ever been reading your kindle and wished that there was an audio that tracked along with your reading like those wonderful books when we were little?  You know, the ones with the magic little chime that sounded when…

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Plans for a New School Year

Foundations and Essentials Plans

This post may contain affiliate links.  Please see my full disclosure policy for more details. I love planners, planning, organizing schedules, etc. When I first started homeschooling, I over planned, over organized, and over scheduled to the point that everyone was consistently feeling like a failure. Slowly and painstakingly I have been able to turn…

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How My Father Cultivated My Faith: He Exposed Me to Great Men of Faith

This post may contain affiliate links.  Please see my full disclosure policy here! When my family took road trips, we listened to books on tape (there was no such thing as audible, CDs, MP3s, or Aux cables).  There were a few books that we listened to multiple times, and those were Christian biographies.  One the most…

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Getting the Most out of Audible

After Christmas break when all school seems tedious, I struggled to find stability in our read aloud time. Unfortunately, I was also taken down by severe allergies, and could barely speak for three weeks without coughing.  Audible saved the day. We started listening to audio books in place of my reading, and it expanded to our time…

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