By Holly Giles | Family , Florida
Mount Dora is a quaint historic town surrounding Lake Dora in Lake County, Florida. They have wonderful festivals of art and patrons come from all over the country to attend. I applied for the Mount Dora spring show in hopes of our family experiencing a large show and to sell enough feed sack totes to keep […]
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By Holly Giles | Family , homeschooling , Motherhood
Looking for Peace Have you ever been in search of peace, quiet and joy among all the busyness and noise of your life? After a week of small disasters at home, I was at the tipping point. Sleepless nights and the dishwasher breaking down kept me tired and looking for paper plates. We have been […]
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By Holly Giles | Family , Inspiration , Mama's Musings
This morning was not anything out of the ordinary. It is the weekend, yet I had office work I needed to do. But something happened, like a bullet that pierced my heart. I am blessed to work mostly from home, yet the lines get blurred between working mom and just mom. Especially when young children […]
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By Holly Giles | Family , handicrafts , homeschooling
Life Skills The Giles Frontier had a booth at the Gifts of Grace arts and crafts fair. It was an opportunity for success and teaching life skills to sell our repurposed feed sack totes, lip balm, jewelry, homeschool curriculum, and slingshots. It can be a lot of work setting up a display, spending most of […]
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By Holly Giles | Family , Florida , florida vacations , Great Outdoors
Camping Trip As we head out this weekend on another camping adventure, I thought I would continue our adventures from last year. In part one of camping, I talked about the truth of family camping. Now I will share our run-ins with critters and nature as we venture on exploring Fort Desoto in Florida. This […]
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By Holly Giles | Family , Inspiration
Blending In with Family No, this is not an ad for camo nation, but a symbol of family coming together, to blend in. The months have been so busy in our house. I was given the opportunity to speak at a regional convention here in Florida, and it pushed me to finish a book I […]
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By Holly Giles | Family , homeschooling , popular
Learning to Read I have been frequently having days where lessons don’t seem to get complete, the laundry is covering the furniture, my youngest won’t read a book and every errand seems to turn into a much longer excursion than necessary. Today, was no exception! I spent most of the day irritated, not that anyone was misbehaving, […]
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By Holly Giles | Family , hen house , Simple Living
My niece is the oldest, and the only girl out of the five grandchildren, unless you count the chickens. So, most of the time, our activities revolve around boys. She is a good sport about it, and when she has had enough, she retreats to her dark lair with her computer. As teenagers go, she loves […]
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By Holly Giles | Family , Motherhood , Simple Living
Chicken coop Curtis and I have been married going on 25 years and we have gone back and forth about keeping a chicken coop. He wanted to, I didn’t, I did, He didn’t. However, when the boys got a little older I decided that raising chickens would definitely be a part of our home education, […]
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