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Free Audio Adventures to Entertain & Educate for Hours
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Free Audio Adventures to Entertain & Educate for Hours

Whether you’re schooling at home during this extended change in routine, or missing the extracurricular activities during your normal homeschool week, you might be looking for some screen-free ways to entertain your children.  Audio adventures are a budget-friendly, germ-free way to entertain the whole family.  Nothing fills the extra hours in our home better than…

Epistolary Picture Books That Will Make Your Child Want to Be a Pen Pal
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Epistolary Picture Books That Will Make Your Child Want to Be a Pen Pal

“Any letters?” One of my children asks the oh-so-hopeful question almost every single day when they see me walking back from the mailbox, flipping through the mail. And oh the delight–the raptures–when an epistle has arrived from one of their pen pals! My children come by it naturally. I’ve been writing letters to my pen…

When You See Yourself in The Pages of a Book (a review of Halstad House)
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When You See Yourself in The Pages of a Book (a review of Halstad House)

An unopened letter. A childhood friend. A bootlegger “cousin.” It’s 1922 in the town of Emmett, Washington. Fluffy biscuits fresh from the oven to feed to paying boarders. The love of a precocious 4-year-old girl and the friendship of a maiden sister. The white three-story boarding house should be a domestic delight to 24-year-old Grace…

What makes you strong and powerful? (a book review from my daughter)
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What makes you strong and powerful? (a book review from my daughter)

Empowered contains the stories of eleven women whose lives were shaped by God. Catherine Parks tells each one’s story in an original and enlightening way. The word “empower” is a magnificent verb meaning “to give power or authority to.” Catherine Parks explains in the introduction to Empowered: How God Shaped 11 Women’s Lives (And Can…

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