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Join me today at The Homeschool Post for an article entitled Education: It’s Not Just for the Kids. Pretty please?

Summer toes. Just around the corner, right?

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Do you know your love language? Your spouse’s? Your children’s?

Knowing a person’s love language enables you to communicate your love more effectively.

Please join me today at (in)courage for Now You’re Speaking My {Love} Language!

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Compassion Bloggers: Kenya 2010The bloggers from Compassion International’s March 4-10 trip to Kenya are preparing for the long trip home now. The experiences that have been shared have brought me both tears and smiles.

Our family has sponsored Guadalupe (Lupita), a five year old girl living in Honduras, for the past two years. On the surface, our sponsorship is a $38 a month donation to help provide for Guadalupe’s physical and spiritual needs.

In reality, it touches my family much deeper.

My kids pray for Guadalupe on a daily basis. Three of them have taken her picture and shared about her for their weekly presentations in our one-day-per-week homeschool classes. We mail her drawings and small gifts. When a new letter from Honduras arrives, we can’t wait to read it and see what pictures she has drawn for us.

Guadalupe looks like a Hispanic version of my own six-year-old daughter, which I think is one of the things that drew me to her when I first saw her picture on the Compassion website. I encourage you to visit their site. You may have an experience like mine, where you see a face and just know that he or she was meant to be your family’s sponsored child.

Our $38 monthly donation not only blessed Guadalupe, it blesses our family.

What does Compassion sponsorship include? Your tax-deductible contribution of $38 a month connects your child with a loving, church-based child sponsorship program that provides:

  • Food and clean water
  • Medical care
  • Educational opportunities
  • Important life-skills training
  • Most important of all, your sponsored child will hear about Jesus Christ and be encouraged to develop a lifelong relationship with God.

For more about the Kenya trip, read Kristen from We are THAT Family’s Compassion Story (so far):

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Scott Kelby’s Photo Recipes Live: Behind the Scenes

March 7, 2010

Lighting is one of the most intimidating areas of photography for both new and often experienced shooters. Although natural light photography can be gorgeous, some photographers say they stick with this method alone because they just don’t “get” other lighting methods.
For me, the two most powerful tools for demystifying photography are knowledge and experience. Experience [...]

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Images from my girlfriends’ weekend in the mountains (and why I will never lose weight on one)

March 6, 2010

Bagel-fuls and cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Promise they weren’t this blurry in real life.

I was dying for barbecue from this local dive. We didn’t eat there, not because our underwear was showing, but because it was carry-out only and too cold to eat outside.

Tough decision: candied or caramel apples?

Willie Wonka-style paradise:

I’ll give you a virtual [...]

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Thoughts on Sponsors, and a Thank You to Mine

March 5, 2010

As more blog conferences and other opportunities present themselves to bloggers, sponsorship has become one of the hottest trending topics in social media. Twitter parties with the #getasponsor hashtag and Get a Sponsor website have sprung up to help women discover how to approach and work with companies to the benefit of both parties.
Truly, it’s [...]

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Disney’s Mulan Live at the Alliance Theatre

March 4, 2010
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Four of my children and I had the pleasure of attending a live play of Disney’s Mulan on Sunday afternoon, courtesy of the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Although my kids have seen both Mulan movies (at the beginning, my six-year-old daughter leaned over and whispered, “Is this [...]

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Making the Most

February 28, 2010

Three of my best girlfriends and I are on our second annual weekend trip to the mountains, an event that has inspired no small amount of excitement and anticipation for four mothers with eighteen combined children among us. We each try to bless the others in our own unique way, whether cooking, planning excursions, whatever.
My [...]

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What It Truly Means to Teach

February 24, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what is involved in both the teaching and mentoring of a child, or anyone for that matter.
Sprittibee and I will be speaking live at the Heart of the Matter online conference this Thursday on “How NOT to Homeschool,” which obviously leads me to ponder the inverse. Also, I’ve [...]

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