Author: Julia Jaeger
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Take a moment to reflect…
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I’m talking to you, homeschooling parents! It is so easy to be exhausted from the home-school year, slam the textbooks shut whether you completed them or not, and focus on summer fun! However, before you move to the fun, sit down and reflect and evaluate the past 9 months. This…
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Something ahead on the horizon…
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I need things on the horizon and not on the back burner. Goals and dreams and things to look forward to in the near and far future. Anyone else like this? I love having a vacation or even an overnight getaway scheduled about 6 months in advance. When I get…
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Why don’t we share….do we care?
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Why do we as women keep information to ourselves? There are so many empty words that we use for negative purposes, but we don’t share what would be helpful to other women. I found out rather suddenly last March that I had a softball-size uterine fibroid and that my uterus…
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What is a “good mom”?
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Don’t be afraid to feel all the feels that Mother’s Day brings up for you! (this picture is from 2009) Our children’s childhood goes by so fast. It feels like forever when you are in the trenches, but all of a sudden you look up and they have gone from…
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My Money, My Choice
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Actually not completely true. I believe we are stewards of what God has given us. However, on an earthly daily basis, you have a choice when it comes to your money. Too often, people are passive with their money. They aren’t taught or equipped to know what to do. They…
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MTHFR….not a bad word but a gene mutation
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We want our bodies to communicate with us, but we don’t always like what they are saying. If our joints are hurting and we feel bloated, we don’t like that! Are we hearing what our body is saying? I realized how many symptoms I had for this methylation disorder last…
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The three “C’s”
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Consume – Create – Contribute These three words have been working their way around my brain over the past year. You can ask the parents at our home-school coop, we talked about this last fall. I don’t care for the thought of being a “good” human. Without the Holy Spirit,…
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How big is your “WHY”?
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Your “WHY” has to be bigger than the discomfort you experience to achieve your “WHY”! That felt really profound to me. Your desire for good health has to be bigger than your desire to take it easy. Your desire to be fit has to be bigger than your desire to…
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Creativity versus Anxiety
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I have heard recently about a connection between creativity and anxiety. Anxiety seems to stifle creativity and creativity can help dampen anxiety. It feels like a chicken/egg situation. I have spent the last few months trying to notice how this plays out for me. I am a logical problem-solving person…
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Creating opportunity for connection…
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Creating an opportunity for connection could include being transparent and authentic in what we post on social media. There can be too much disconnection, both physically and emotionally, in today’s online world. But what if we used this for good? There is a great opportunity to connect with people and…
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The seen versus the unseen…
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While I was working on my Bible study this week, a question that I was answering made me think of the following verse: 2 Corinthians 4:18 (NIV)So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is…
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It’s One Test…on Two Days!
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As home-school moms, this can be a hard time of year. There is the ridiculously long month of February (not really, but in homeschooling it feels extra long). Then we face the standardized test situation. In the state of Minnesota, we are required to have our home-schooled children take a…
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One size doesn’t fit all….and one curriculum doesn’t work for every child!
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Unless it is Teaching Textbooks! That curriculum was the only one that was used by all of my children with different skill levels and struggles. God did not create robots. He did not give us the ability to clone our kids. Each one is a different combination of the genetics…
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Good health comes at a cost…but so does bad health!
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Healthcare is not “free”. Whether you are paying for a doctor or surgeon or cancer treatment now or in the future. Whether you have great insurance or health care sharing for the self-employed. Maybe you are spending money on improving your overall health now, but staying healthy in a “fallen”…
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It might be my fight….but it is not my war!
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I have been thinking a lot about the battle in the physical, but also in the spiritual. Let’s not forget about the constant battlefield of the mind. I have been studying Revelation 17 & 18 the past couple of weeks with my online Bible Study Fellowship group. Lots of questions…