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    • The REAL Reason I Didn’t Want to Homeschool
    • Why My First Attempt at Homeschooling Failed
    • Why I’m Glad I Ditched Traditional Homeschooling
    • The Will to Change: The Key to Homeschooling Success
    • Recommended Reading for Prospective Homeschoolers
    • Lies People Believe About Homeschooling Moms
    • You Mean Your Homeschooled Kid Doesn’t Know What Grade He’s In?
    • Help! My Child Hates Reading!
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    • When Kids Demean Your Struggling Learner
    • Why I Don’t Sweat Preschool
    • Homeschooling with Mr. Whittaker
  • Family
    • When Our Frustrations with Our Kids are Our Own Fault
    • 11 Confessions of a Thoroughly Imperfect Mom
    • 40 Mealtime Conversation Starters
    • A Visit to the Creation Museum
    • 3 Reasons Family Vacations Matter
    • When Your Kid is the Bad Kid at Church
    • A Visit to the Historic Triangle
    • My No Shame Reasons For Letting My Kids Play Video Games
    • To the Kind Stranger Who Praised My Little Family
    • When Kids Complain — The Complaining Jar
  • Faith
    • 7 Tips for Raising Kids to Reject the Christian Faith
    • Five Ways to Make Visitors to Your Church Feel Welcome
    • The Man Who Took My Father’s Place — A True Story from Vietnam
    • My Life is Harder Than Yours
    • What a Christian’s Facebook Should Look Like
  • Homemaking
    • Recipes
      • Southern-Style Two Beans and Rice
      • Homemade Frozen Buttermilk Biscuits
      • Beckie’s Mexican Cornbread
      • Black Pepper Cherry Chicken Salad
      • Chronicles of Narnia and Homemade Turkish Delight
      • Easy Sweet Mustard Hot Ham and Cheese
      • Chocolate Cappuccino Muffins
      • Cheesy Slow Cooker Cauliflower Soup
      • Perfect Summer Fruit Trifle
      • Grilled Summer Vegetable Medley
      • Chewy Chocolate Chip and Cranberry Granola Cookies
      • Best Summer Blueberry Cherry Cobbler
      • Summer Mint Lemonade
    • Household Tips and Tricks
      • Conquering the Little Boy Bathroom Smell
      • For the ADD Housewife — The Trick of 13
      • The BEST Tip for Taming the Laundry Beast
      • 6 Packing Tips for Long Road Trips
      • Married to a Messy
      • The Best Shower Cleaning Tip Ever
      • 5 Household Cleaning Products I Make Myself
      • 5 Cleaning Tools Every Woman Needs
    • Home Projects and Crafts
      • My Kitchen Table Makeover
      • George Washington Carver and the Holt Family Peanut Experiment
      • Container Gardening for the Horticulturally Challenged
      • Do-It-Yourself Book Snowballs
      • Mod-Podge and Scrapbook Paper Bookcase Makeover
      • Do-It-Yourself Slip and Slide
      • DIY Mason Jar Drinking Glasses with Lids
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    • For Grown Ups
      • Overwhelmed: How to Quiet the Chaos and Restore Your Sanity
      • A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss
      • 1776
      • The Backyard Homestead
      • Home Sweet Homeschool
    • For Kids
      • Revolutionary Friends
      • Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery: The Journey that Shaped America
      • King George: What Was His Problem?
      • The Scrambled States of America
      • The Imagination Station Series
      • Little Pea

My New Kentucky Home

A blog about faith and family, home and homeschooling.

The Moments When I Know I’ve Done Something Right

May 10, 2018 by My New Kentucky Home

The Moments When I Know I've Done Something Right

There are those moments when I know I've done something right.   It's not always.  It's not even frequent enough for my liking. But it does happen.  I look at my kids -- my beautiful, happy, fun family -- and I wonder, "How did this happen?  How did I get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: mom, moms, mother, Mother's Day, Motherhood, Mothering

11 Confessions of a Thoroughly Imperfect Mom

February 11, 2016 by My New Kentucky Home

  Not so long ago I heard from a reader who was under some misconceptions about me. You see, social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and the "blogosphere" are designed to let people share a little of themselves with others. Note that I said "a little" of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christian mom, mom, Motherhood, Uncategorized

7 Things Every Mom Should Do More This Year

January 7, 2016 by My New Kentucky Home

Whether you're a resolution-maker or not, most of us can look upon a new year and think of at least 100 things we would like to do more and do better in the year ahead of us.   There are a few things I think every mom should do a little more in 2016.  I need to do them, and I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: mom, Motherhood, New Year, New Year's resolutions, resolutions, Uncategorized

When Your Kid is the Bad Kid at Church

July 30, 2015 by My New Kentucky Home

  It had been another one of those nightmarish services when I wondered why on earth I had even bothered to come to church.  Not that the service itself was bad.  It was probably very good, though I honestly couldn't have told you either way because I had spent 90% of it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: bad kid, behavior, Church, Encouragement, LPD, mom, Motherhood, parenting, Uncategorized

What I Never Pictured Motherhood to Be

May 7, 2015 by My New Kentucky Home

    Think back for just a moment, moms, back to the days before you had children. Remember everything you envisioned motherhood to be?  You probably had a lovely little collection of mental snapshots all filed away in anticipation of the day you had children of your own. If … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Happy Mother's Day, mom, mommy, mother, Mother's Day, Motherhood, parenting, Uncategorized

To the Kind Stranger Who Praised My Little Family

October 16, 2014 by My New Kentucky Home

 Dear Sir: I'm afraid I'm a little slow to say thank you, but that doesn't mean I haven't been incredibly grateful for your kind words from the day you spoke them!  What a blessing you were to me, and to all of us! And what a blessing your words have been every time I've thought of them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christianity, encouraging others, encouraging words, family, homeschooling, kindness, mom, mother, Motherhood, Uncategorized

The Road that Led To Homeschool: Four Reasons Why I Didn’t Want to Homeschool

September 11, 2014 by My New Kentucky Home

Homeschool

   (This one was originally part of a series that, when I wrote it, was more or less half personal diary and half 'homeschooling manifesto'.  The things I wrote back then still ring true in my heart and mind today.  And while my blog is still unassumingly small, it has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christian homeschooling, Home education, Homeschool, homeschooling, mom, Motherhood, patience, Uncategorized

When its Chaos-Week in Your Homeschool

March 13, 2014 by My New Kentucky Home

    No matter how organized a mom you are; no matter how detailed your scheduling or how meticulous your record-keeping; no matter how much forethought and preparation you put into it your homeschool, there will be days, and maybe even weeks, when chaos seems to reign … [Read more...]

Filed Under: chaos, Homeschool, homeschooling, mom, Motherhood, parenting, planning, public school, scheduling, stay-at-home moms, Uncategorized

         

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