His Mercy is New

Grocery Shopping Frugally Online

Household Stuff· The Frugal Life

{affiliate links used. thank you for supporting this blog!} Beginning in January, our family began making strides to live more frugally AND at the same time a more healthy lifestyle! You can read more about our journey & plans here. Most of you probably know that this is hard. We simply cannot afford to walk into our local grocery stores…
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Real Life Homeschooling {a series}

Real Life Homeschooling

This homeschool mom {and so many others like me} don’t have our acts together. We aren’t as patient with our kids as we need to be, we don’t have the organizational skills of Martha Stewart. In fact, most days my husband comes home and I tell him that I just can’t do this another day. And most of all, we…
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Real Life Homeschooling #11

Real Life Homeschooling

This week we are blessed to have a guest post from Lexi who blogs about their somewhat classical, slightly eclectic, and mostly crazy homeschool at Lextin Academy!  But what about socialization??  How many times have you been confronted with that question?  I’ve heard it more times than I can count!  I now choose to just smile and nod and ignore.  I could…
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Monday’s Mercies

Gift List

I can’t believe I’ve been counting my blessings here on my blog for so long… Over 3,600 gifts! I love that I can look back and see the FAITHFULNESS of GOD. I can see how HE LOVES ME. I can see the small, simple joys…I can see the countless ways He loves us. What a gift in just keeping this…
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