How to Start Your First Garden – Homestead Garden Tips

Your First Garden

By Sherri Lyons So you want to learn how to start your first garden. Gow your own fruits and vegetables. Become more self-sufficient. Learning how to start your first garden is a gratifying experience that produces heaps of rewards, but it can be daunting to dig your first hole. In this post, we’ll talk about …

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A Memorable Lesson

Memorable Lesson

By Ashley Allgood I taught a class of kindergarten children at our church last year. One day, a little boy asked about a button he had seen on the boys’ restroom wall. I told him I wasn’t sure what it was. Very soon, another little boy came to ask if he could go to the …

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Fun Ways To Inspire Kids To Read Out Loud

Inspire Kids To Read Aloud

By Ashley Allgood As parents we often read aloud to our children. It seems the natural thing to do. I’ve even known some parents to read to their babies while the child was still in the womb. But, what about having your children read aloud to others? Reading aloud has a lot of benefits. It …

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Raising Spring Chicks

By Lisa Steele Before you succumb to temptation and bring home some peeping balls of yellow fluff from the feed store, be sure you know what raising baby chicks entails. This article is full of good information with a quick raising chicks checklist at the end. 6 Tips for Raising Spring Chicks Safe Home: Plastic …

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Learn How to Take Great Family Photos!

You love the idea of capturing your special family moments with your camera, and maybe you’ve even dreamed of making money with your photography skills, but reality is just a little too real. You feel like a wannabe photographer who’s never going to be great—or at least, certainly not as good as you want to …

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The Whole Word Reading Method

By Ashley Allgood My oldest and youngest children really struggled with learning to read. I also struggled to read as a child and later was diagnosed with dyslexia. When my oldest was learning to read I tried so many different curriculums and each one failed. Our morning school lessons would almost always end in tears …

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Budgeting and Your Bank Account

Budgeting and your Bank Account

Organizing Bank Accounts When you read the title of this article, you are probably wondering what I mean. Why would someone need to organize her bank accounts? Well, let me explain a method of using multiple checking and/ or savings accounts to help you stay on track so that you can meet your financial goals. …

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