Category: stay-at-home mom

Exciting Announcement– My Israel Book is Free for Two Days!

books, home school, homeschool, stay-at-home mom
tour Israel in pictures and stories

I am up to my neck in home school work at the moment. Two are reading contentedly. One just finished Dog Man and is choosing to whine rather than pick his next book to read. The other one is begrudgingly beginning Hunger Games. His teacher has outlawed many of the books that he would rather read. Since school here is only cancelled through April, we still have to follow the guidelines they gave us. Fun, fun, fun. But I wanted […]

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Quarantine Week 2: The Quitter Feet and the Centenarians

stay-at-home mom
Quarantine Week 2: The Quitter Feet and the Centenarians

***This post contains Amazon ads. I do collect advertising fees when you purchase through these links.*** This is quarantine week two for us. How about you? All the moms are working harder than EVER. Well, not all, but you know, a vast amount of us anyway, all of us who still have kids at home. The schools here sent fresh new packets of work, a separate packet for each upcoming week. I printed all four packets out, but I have […]

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10 Ideas for Making a Quarantine Birthday Fun

4 kids, birthday, parties, stay-at-home mom
quarantine birthday

Do you have anyone in your house with a quarantine birthday? It feels ironic that I wrote a post only two weeks ago where I talked about how my birthday party was postponed when I turned eight years old. That was due to chicken pox. Remember chicken pox? Then here I am thirty-one years later “postponing” my son’s ninth birthday party while we all hunker down to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. I told him we will do […]

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Life in the Underground Day 2: The Great Return to Home School

4 kids, home school, homeschool, stay-at-home mom
The Great Return to Home school Day 2

And just like that, the whole country became home school families! Does anyone else feel like a month has passed since last Wednesday? Our “cancelling school” announcement came on a Thursday night, and that was the day the world felt like it began to unravel. Then we all sort of went underground. Now you know this all feels extremely ironic to me. I said I would never home school again. It was not for me. Honestly, I was a bit […]

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How to Create a Vision Board, with Examples

goals, stay-at-home mom
How to Create a Vision Board, with Examples

***Disclosure statement: I do collect advertising fees from Amazon when you purchase through Amazon links on my site.*** Have you heard of these vision boards? I just heard about it this year, reading Girl, Wash Your Face, by Rachel Hollis. I never finished the book, but the vision board idea was an intriguing one. In my mind I was picturing a vision board as a bulletin board, by my closet with visual reminders of the goals that I have. At […]

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Birthday Week 2020

4 kids, Army Wives, attitude, stay-at-home mom

Remember when you were a child, how exciting birthdays were? In my 8-year-old world, birthdays were the best event of the year. A whole day of presents, cake, and friends? What could be better than that? In fact, I remember turning eight especially well. That was the year I had chicken pox. The party had to be moved to a week later. My poor mom probably had to call everyone. Kids these days do not know how good they have […]

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War, Basketball, & the Missing Boots

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War, Basketball, & the Missing Boots

War Guess what has taken our house by storm lately? War!!! No, I am not referring to Nerf War. That was so two weeks ago. We are talking about the card game. In fact, War has been played so much in our house that I can assure you that our deck of cards now only contains 52 cards. Yes, that sounds normal, but the problem is two of those cards are Jokers. If you use Jokers to play War, the […]

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“Settling in” 7 Months After Moving

military life, moving, stay-at-home mom

I know some of you are so tired of me writing about moving you could puke. Sorry, guys. It is such a big deal. The impact of moving cannot be stated generously enough. All these back-to-back moves have brought so much stress that I feel like if I could simply harness the stress, it could be a mighty power source. We could light up New York City with the stress of all the military wives, I am quite sure of […]

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7 Books for Middle Schoolers We Enjoyed this Year

4 kids, books, stay-at-home mom
7 books middle schoolers love

***When you order through Amazon ads on this page, I do collect advertising fees. All opinions are my own.*** Middle Schoolers Can Be Super Picky But then, aren’t most people picky about what they read? I will deliberate for 5 minutes, put a book down, pick up another, change my mind, go back to book A, put it down, and then finally decide on a different book altogether. The older I get the pickier I seem to be. When I […]

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The Cookie Fiasco: All That Work for Nothing

Bible verses, faith, family, food, stay-at-home mom

A couple of weeks ago I found out that the ladies’ ministry at my church is going to have a cookie contest. It is really more than just a contest, it is a luncheon, but at the luncheon there will be a cookie contest. Then the cookies are delivered to teachers at a local school. We are giving back to our community with something pleasant like Valentine cookies. Now I am a regular attending member of our church, and also […]

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