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		<title>Awesome with a Side of Weird</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been in a situation where the air is thick with irritation and frustration? You’re at Target with your child who is not only sensitive to his environment but feels socially suffocated. Every line is seven people long, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Toddler Homeschool 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a mom of four children, I figured out I&#8217;ll be homeschooling for thirty-five years! That&#8217;s a long time to be thinking about lesson plans and fun, educational learning. But this “second time around” (I have a toddler again), I&#8217;ve [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrubbing Before Scribbling: Submitting Our Talents to God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” – Philippians 2:8 (ESV) My daughter Kristen (age 16) is quite talented artistically. She attends classes at our local Artios Conservatory and has published [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Weary?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post was originally posted on Jenny&#8217;s blog in April 2011. She hopes it encourages you today! The economy has been bad everywhere, but in Michigan, we’ve been at the bottom of the totem pole. Our family has faced two [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Is Like a Bowl of Fruit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If life is like a box of chocolates, then sex is like a bowl of fruit. If we wanted to reduce intimacy to a simile, then perhaps all our marriage problems could be solved with a metaphorical bowl of fruit! [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fill &#8216;er Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What are you filling your homeschool with? Is it lots of books? Craft supplies galore? Great literature? Hands on activities? Movies? Worksheets and workbooks? All of these things are a natural part of any homeschool, and of course most are necessary. Yet [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School with Dante and His Inferno</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is another circle of Hell that Dante neglected to mention. . . Back-to-School Shopping. I&#8217;m not talking about the fun stuff:  pens, notebooks, highlighters, folders, and paper. You know &#8211; office supplies. There is a theory about homeschoolers, you [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginning of Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently the kids and I started reading the Psalms and Proverbs in the morning during breakfast: three psalms and one chapter in Proverbs that corresponds with the date of the month. The idea is to do this daily, getting through [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>I Must Be Speaking Greek!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You ask Johnny to go get his dirty clothes, put them in the basket, and bring them to the laundry room. You ask him to repeat what you just said and he does so successfully. Half an hour later you [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Speak Encouragement Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today.” (Hebrews 3:13) My father seldom praised me. He believed it was better to point out what I didn’t do right. “It’s the only way you’ll grow and improve,” he often [&#8230;]]]></description>
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