Abby Sasser has years of experience sticking to her homeschool budget. Here are seven simple, practical tips to help you stay on your homeschool budget too.
Read More »The #1 Secret to Being Patient and Strong with Your Children
Abby Sasscer says our role as a parent is not to react negatively right away but to remain calm and teach our children acceptable and unacceptable behavior.
Read More »4 Simple Ways To Stay Connected With God Throughout The Day
Is God forgotten in the course of your busy day? Abby Sasscer has four simple ways to stay more connected to our Lord in the busyness of our daily lives.
Read More »4 Simple Steps to Teach Our Children Calmly and Effectively
One of the most common of my many New Year's resolutions is to become a more patient mother and teacher. Every year, it seems that I start strong but my efforts slowly fizzle out by the last week of January. My greatest challenge is to able to teach my children how to behave in ways that are pleasing to the Lord without becoming impatient and frustrated myself.
Read More »How to Get Acceptable and Appropriate Behavior from Your Children… in Public
Abby Sasscer has four simple solutions to calmly change things that typically cause anxiety and behavior meltdowns in public into precious teaching moments.
Read More »Organizing Your Paperwork Using Binder Buddies
In the first part of her Conquering The Great Paper Trail series, Abby shares a simple tool that will help your organize paperwork!
Read More »How Roses From St. Therese Changed My Life Forever
In honor of St. Therese's Feast Day, Abby Sasscer shares her story about how her Little Flower Novena helped her discern to stay home and raise her family.
Read More »5 Simple Homeschooling Tips from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Abby Sasscer starts her year with a pep talk for our heroic, homeschooling moms, looking to Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton’s beautiful words of wisdom!
Read More »The Day I Learned to Dance With My Children
by Abby Sasscer | Although I really wanted to finish my task, I decided to look into her hazel eyes, take her tiny hand and ask if she wanted to dance.
Read More »4 Simple Ways To Bond With Your Children
by Abby Sasscer | When my children were babies, it was so much easier to bond with them. I could easily “wear” them inside...
Read More »The 2015 Homeschool Conference Season
The 2015 homeschool conference season is off and running, thanks to the St. Louis Catholic Homeschool Conference, where speakers such as Patti Maguire Armstrong and Andrew Daub discussed topics from ...
Read More »Listen With L. O. V. E. in these 4 Simple Steps
by Abby Sasscer | The more time I devote to prayer, the more I realize that one of the things I need to work on is to listen more and better...
Read More »4 Simple Ways To Spend Less Time Online & More Time With Those We Love
by Abby Sasscer | As I look back during the past year, I try to find ways to become a better Catholic, wife, mother and neighbor.
Read More »Spring Cleaning the Laundry, Linen and Bathroom!
by Abby Sasscer | Today, we’ll be looking at our tiny spaces, namely, our laundry closet, linen closet and hallway bath. Tiny spaces in tiny homes need a WHOLE LOT of creativity.
Read More »Spring Cleaning the Boy’s Room!
by Abby Sasscer | Today, we’ll be looking at The Boys’ Room. Since my parents were slowly transitioning into retirement, my father temporarily stayed...
Read More »Spring Cleaning the Girls’ Room!
by Abby Sasscer | When Baby Girl felt she was ready to move in her sister’s room, our challenge was to make them feel like they had their own “special space”. This took a bit of creativity since the space we were working with was so limited. When Baby Girl is a bit older, we will eventually move a bunk bed in here to make their special space a bit more permanent.
Read More »De-Cluttering the Bedroom and Bathroom – Simple Spring Cleaning Steps!
by Abby Sasscer | The biggest change in our family this year is that Baby girl decided that she was ready to sleep in the “big” girls’ room with her sister. My heart is aching from this inevitable change and I’m still not used to seeing all this empty space at the foot of our bed. Sniff...sniff…..
Read More »A Virtual Tour of Our Home: How We Keep Life Simple (or Try!)
by Abby Sasscer | Every time I do a meet-and-greet with mothers after my Project Nazareth talks, many of them have suggested that I be open to giving an online tour of our home. And while I thought the idea was great, a part of me wanted to keep our cottage out of the public eye.
Read More »Our Cottage Spring Cleaning Adventure: Part 1
by Abby Sasscer | Spring is definitely in the air and what better time to declutter and organize our domestic church than during this beautiful season of Lent. Despite the on-again, off-again winter weather we’ve been experiencing here in Virginia, the Great Purge of 2014 is well underway in our little home in the hills.
Read More »Yearning For Heaven: The 8th Principle of the Simple Life
As soon as my baby girl turned seven months old, I started feeling ill. And it wasn't the typical "I'm coming down with a cold" kind of ill. I was having a very difficult time breathing. As a busy mom, I dismissed it as the usual effects of sleep deprivation. I went to the hospital just to be sure, but they sent me home after all the test results came out normal.
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