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Book: Lakeside RetreatAuthor: Marci SeitherGenre: Devotional gift bookRelease date: July 5, 2022Close your eyes for a moment. Inhale. Can you smell the pine trees? Now listen. Can you hear the loon’s call echo off the water and the geese honking as they fly overhead? Now imagine tasting the smoke-tainted marshmallows straight out of the campfire. Think about feeling the warm summer sun on your skin and the cool breeze against your face.Lakeside Retreat is an invitation to surround yourself with the majesty of God’s creation and wrap yourself in the warm blanket of Scripture’s wonderful, eternal truths.Let this collection of...

Disclaimer: I received a Complimentary copy of this product through the HOMESCHOOL REVIEW CREW in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions I have expressed are my own or those of my family and I pray you, the reader, find them helpful on your homeschooling journey. I am disclosing this in accordance with FTC Regulations.   Morning friends! Earlier this year I was able to share a review of the half-semester, self-paced Study Skills / Measurement / Lab Reports / Graphing, course from...

Derek and Suzi Alkonis pose with a photo of their son Lt. Ridge Alkonis on Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Dana Point, Calif. Their son, a U.S. Navy lieutenant in Japan, faces a potential three-year prison sentence for a car crash that killed two people last year. The family of Alkonis says he suffered from acute mountain-sickness and passed out unconscious behind the wheel. Japanese prosecutors and a judge say he was feeling drowsy and should have pulled over. Utah Sen. Mike Lee called on President Joe Biden to meet with the lieutenant’s wife, hear his story and help bring...

Fifth grade teacher Jody Kyburz waves goodbye to other fifth grade teachers at the end of an online meeting at Snow Springs Elementary School in Lehi on Dec. 7, 2020.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News No change during the COVID-19 pandemic was more salient and divisive than school closures and the pivot to online learning. Almost at the push of a button, students ranging from pre-K to graduate school were learning how to share screens and “Zoom” while teachers and parents balanced multiple priorities when home and school occupied the same physical space. Now that we are returning to a somewhat “normal” routine and...

20 Years Later…  We are starting school today… yes, it’s a late start for most homeschoolers. I’m sipping my coffee and reflecting over the past 20 years of homeschooling my eight children as I let my sleepy teenagers wake up a bit slower (minus the alarm clock.)This journey has definitely been the most easy, most difficult, most thrilling, most depressing, and the most unexpectedly beautiful adventure! What an invitation from God, I’m so glad I accepted it. And all along the journey I have been privileged to have gotten a front-row window seat.In my early 20’s I wasn’t on the...