Steve and Megan Scheibner, MACHE Keynote Speakers!
A moment of honesty. This was our seventh year attending the MACHE conference and we had never attended a Keynote Speaker session. I know, it’s crazy! We were starved for time with each other. We...
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Riding Lessons at Broadway Farm in Albert Lea
I’m not sure if Maddie was born with horses in her blood or if she has fallen in love with them because she has heard all of my horse stories from camp. Whatever the reason is I think the horse bug has...
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Thank You To Our Sponsors!
Albert Lea has always believed in the importance of training, equipping, and preparing the next generation for the future. This continues to be true even today. On September 29th, internationally known...
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Our homeschool day belly flopped, now what?
Every homeschool family on the planet has days when it feels like they belly flopped. It’s painful, sometimes, feels like we can’t recover from them, and it can cause us to feel like we are the only...
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Can You Change Your Dream?
It is so easy to focus on what other mama’s, women and families are doing. It is easy to see perfectly posed children, smiling in a picture. What we usually do not see is the mom and dad jumping up and...
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I Don’t Want to Look at Today
It’s easier to hang on to the past and look to the future than to look at where I am today. Honestly, today hurts. Today didn’t go as planned and it hasn’t for the last ten years. Honestly, I feel...
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What Can I Do?
I have been silent both on Social Media and on our blog about the violence going on around us. It breaks my heart and I find myself asking, what is my role in all of this? I have been thinking quite a...
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An Inside Look into the Confidence We see in Others.
Most of the time when I ask a question out loud, I have been pondering it in my heart and mind for quite sometime. When I am finally ready to ask a question I have usually formed thoughts and opinions...
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We use unit studies to homeschool our kiddos to save our sanity
*I was given unit studies to help facilitate my review. All thoughts are honest and based upon our families experience. One of the first things I do to plan for the next year is figure out what areas...
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The phrases that have changed my life and changed my direction
When I am struggling I ask a lot of questions. I seek answers, because in my experience God usually sends one or two people into my path to speak the exact truth I need to hear. It can be in the form...
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When the darkness pisses me off!
For years I shut out the pain of the world. It was too painful, too hurtful and honestly it is still painful and hurtful. It is still a place filled with evil and as a believer some days, most days,...
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Has God prepared me for nothing
During church today we were singing, “we believe in God the Father. We believe in Jesus Christ and he’s coming back again.” I do believe this is true, but do I believe it only in the times I think he’s...
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How do you choose multiple curriculums?
Seven years ago when we began homeschooling I was overwhelmed with what curriculum to choose. I was even more baffled by the moms who were piecing their curriculum together. I could not figure out how...
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Over the course of the last year we have been working to build RCV Web Service. RCV stands for Russell’s Creative Ventures. It is an umbrella company that houses our many passions, talents and gifts....
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Please Make Mistakes
If someone had said, “please make mistakes” to me a year ago I probably would have run away. Figuratively and possibly even literally. Making a mistake was the most horrible thing I could think of to...
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When they begin to fly
I am sitting in the auditorium while my girls wait for their turn to practice during the dress rehearsal for their winter dance recital. Their buns are in place, makeup carefully applied and they are...
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Five years later, does TJED work?
We always knew we wanted to create a different learning environment for our kids than we had growing up. We wanted their education to be different from a public, private or christian school. In one way...
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Story learning with Kidloland
*We were given a subscription to Kidloland to help us faciliate this review. All thoughts and opinions are honest and based on our experience. Naomi is the spitting image of myself. She loves to talk,...
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Mentor your kids through a rough homeschool day, week or months.
I don’t know what happens to our kid’s brains between Friday and Sunday. Whatever happens it is as if they have forgotten everything we have been learning. Emotions run high, their attitudes are...
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What is your business core?
We model our business core after the homeschooling method we discovered a little over five years ago. Thomas Jefferson Education is a educational method based on three phases of learning. Discovering...
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