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Busy Moms: There is No Guilt in Resting
Episode 139
We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe som…
7 years, 7 months ago
Homeschool Math Tips with Virginia Lee
Episode 138
If there's one subject that can get a homeschool mom down, it's usually math. Listen in on this conversation between Mystie and Virginia Lee about ge…
7 years, 7 months ago
Realistic Ways to Rest for Moms with Virginia Lee
Episode 137
So this season is about rest. All the rest of the episodes are going to be clips from a workshop that I did on getting rest as a mom because sometime…
7 years, 8 months ago
Thoughts on Jayber Crow and Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
Episode 136
Somehow, Berry makes you feel affection for all mankind, even those who aren’t likable and maybe even those who are wicked but especially for those w…
7 years, 10 months ago
Thoughts on Consider This by Karen Glass
Episode 135
As I’ve written before, the goal of education is virtue, and Karen’s first chapter jumps right into the heart of it. She proves that virtue – right a…
7 years, 10 months ago
Family is For Fellowship.
Episode 134
Too often, when we start making goals around keeping house better or getting more done, our focus shifts too far and we start seeing these means as e…
7 years, 10 months ago
Thoughts on Living Page by Laurie Bestvater
Episode 133
I recently finished Laurie Bestvater's The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks with Charlotte Mason, and I loved it. I bought it based on Brandy's reviews…
7 years, 10 months ago
15 Minutes is All You Need
Episode 132
One way we give in to perfectionism is to not start unless we know we can finish and get the results we want.
But as busy moms, that is rarely possibl…
7 years, 11 months ago
Choose Your Expression.
Episode 131
It’s easy to smile at our newborns, smile at a cute three-year-old antic, smile at our bigger kids when they volunteer to help out. It’s good our lif…
7 years, 11 months ago
Thoughts on Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung & Shopping for Time by Carolyn Mahaney
Episode 130
“Cross to carry” is a phrase used to talk about suffering as a lot in life, but this portrayal of that cross, that suffering, as an active things in …
7 years, 11 months ago