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10 Blogging Tips for Beginners (What I wish I had known when I started blogging!)

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I am now officially a contributor to montereypremier.com‘s blog, Engaging Work life! This was an exciting opportunity for me, and I hope you’ll give it a read. Here’s a snippet: #1. You HAVE to self-promote. I didn’t want to do it either, but how can anyone ever read your blog if they don’t know that you posted something new? I see it all the time with friends that start blogs. They spend all that time writing, but then they keep […]

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Newly Revised Pros and Cons List for Home Vs. Public Vs. Private School

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There are just a few blog posts that I’ve written that have front page authority on Google. If you want to know how to make a school supply cake, they will send you to me, page 1, top slot. If you want a long list of pros and cons for school choices, you will find this old post in your Google search results. Some days it gets more hits than the new things that I post. I am not anti-public, anti-private, or […]

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The Power of Far-away Friends

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Did everyone have a great Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? We did! I mean, we just went to school, but that’s fun for us because we get to see and talk to people there. We love people. No, I mean we truly love people. I’ve had hermit phases that were incredibly sad, when I forgot how much I need others. My children and my husband are the same as me. We thrive off of social interaction. Home school families sometimes […]

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Stories of Our Boys’ Top 10 Posts of 2015

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2015 was a happy year here, full of it’s own challenges, triumphs, and best of all, adventures. I put together this look back at my 10 most popular posts from the year. By popular, I mean that these are the posts that were read by the largest number of people. First, a few stats from our past year at Stories of Our Boys: You might have read all 156 blog posts. You are reading this from 120 different countries. JenerallyInformed.com was the […]

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The Hot-Mess Blog Hop

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  I just want to go back to bed. My energy just isn’t there. I slept later than I should have and never recovered. The “to file” stack of papers is so high that the children knocked it over, and I’m pretending like I don’t see it. If I weren’t a home school mom with a need to prove myself, I would so burn all those useless old worksheets…. It’s just one of those days. I feel tired. In my […]

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Life in Northern Cal: Modeling Good Habits and Helping the Homeless

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There are so many exciting things going on in our chilly little Northern Cal world, it’s hard to keep my head on straight! Alan is in the middle of a mid-term schedule that has him pretty stressed. He actually has to go out of town later this week to test out a drone parachute that he designed. Woohoo! Alan and I are so different. No one would ever, in a billion years, ask me to design ANYTHING. Thanks to this […]

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Making Transitions and Solving Sleep Problems

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I’ve been talking a lot about my hermit problem, and I want you all to know that things are getting so much better around here. The boys are finally opening up a little more at tutoring. I had to practically drag them away from there today! Even John David doesn’t cry when I drop him off for the tutoring childcare! We have all met plenty of people that we truly like, and the fact is that I haven’t met one single […]

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The results are in!! Thank you for your votes!!!

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Just a quick post to let all of you WONDERFUL folks know that you can stop voting now. The results are in and I am……..drum roll please…….. #9 on Voicebok.com’s list of the Most Influential Blogs of 2014!!!! The list will be posted later this month, and I will, of course, be sharing it with ya’ll as soon as it’s posted. I think it’s like one of those countdown of the year’s most influential blogs kind of deals. Exciting huh???  This is […]

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We are Amazon ready for Black Friday.

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  I’m so excited to tell you that I am officially an affiliate for my favorite company:  Amazon. What does this mean for you? It means that if you click on the Amazon badge on my webpage, it will take you to Amazon.com. Once there, if you buy something, I will get a tiny little commission. So feel free to use and abuse my webpage as your gateway to holiday shopping.  I know most of my family does their Christmas […]

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A Week of Serious Breakthroughs

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When I started college in 1999, the computer world looked absolutely nothing as it looks today. We barely used email, let alone websites. Books were purchased at stores that sold coffee, notes were written on paper, and Facebook, WordPress, and Twitter were not even thoughts in anyone’s heads. On top of that, as an easily bored 18 year old, I swore off anything computer or business world related. I made my home in the school of Arts and Sciences. The […]

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