Julie Lyles Carr

But I am. Literally. One of the bonuses of homeschooling is that you don’t have to deal with some of the inconveniences traditional within the public school experience. Or so I thought. Until yesterday. At which time I received a little news bulletin that went something like this: “Mom, 6 of 8 has some kind of little bug crawling in…
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After twenty-two years of relationship, Michael and I have learned quite a bit about communicating with each other. Not that we’ve perfected our methods, you understand. But we have figured out a few things that work for us, such as me learning to not attempt to discuss important issues while there is some significant soccer game on the FoxSoccer channel….
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The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes of bread for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke me to anger. Jeremiah 7:18 Human beings seem to gravitate toward deification. Often deification of ourselves. When the Israelites were deep in the wilderness on…
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~7 of 8~ ~thoughtful~ ~mooshy sweet~ ~and, yes, she came with those lips already installed~ Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:59:00 +0000julielylescarr

“You can’t expect what you don’t inspect…” I so wish I could take credit for this quote. Actually, I just wish I could remember where I read it. I know it was a fellow homeschool mom, and I think it may have been in a book… …or maybe it was on a website. Sigh. A footnote girl I am not….
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