Learning to Carry On

As the time for starting school came nearer, each year, I would usually have one of two feelings that would assail me. I always looked forward to summer, and to the lifting of that schedule that had become to feel more like a straitjacket. But, after a summer of “freedom”, I really looked forward to […]

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Schools started! Sort of….

“And we’re off….like a dirty shirt” my dad used to say as we’d scramble out the door for a family activity barely dressed and hardly  ready to go, herding out with our coats half on and hoping we hadn’t left a curling iron or the stove still on. Our first week of school this week, […]

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A Good Thing….

One of the things that I greatly disliked, and STILL have trouble with, is the feeling of being pressured. Part of that is because I am a naturally lazy person, and have always looked for opportunities to slide into a chair and read. One of my daughters takes after her grandmother, who described herself as […]

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GRHE Hits the Ball Field

  Is your calendar already filling up for the school year?  We at GRHE  understand that attending home school conferences is hard  (and feeling guilty about not attending them is hard too!). That’s why this year we’ve decided to come to you.  Look for GRHE representatives in the bleachers at soccer practices this fall as […]

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Flying Days!

Well, it’s happened again — a summer is rapidly slipping away, and I’ve still lots to accomplish before it is over. Thoughts like that have me hyper-ventilating when I wake up, and I need even more the blessed grace of the Lord to calm me down. MY summer has been packed, and when I say […]

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