Welcome to Daily Encouragement!
Hi, I’m Charlene Notgrass. I was born a long time before you, way back in 1953. I loved homeschooling — once I learned how to make homeschooling who our family was instead of something I carried around like a big, heavy burden every day. From the lessons God has taught me, I offer you daily encouragement.
What is Ice?
Jennifer is spacey. Amanda is lazy. Melissa’s a snob. Kelly’s a fake. It is so easy to label people. Labels work for things like spices and what you put in the freezer, but they don’t work so well for people.…
Sometimes It Feels So Good to Stretch
My friend (I’ll call her Lisa) homeschools her three children. We met Lisa and her husband (I’ll call him Jeffrey) before they had children. Now they have three. I’ll call them Austin, Kevin, and Rachel. Lisa first knew she wanted…
Teach Your Sheep
I recently spent several hours with an old friend. She told me about a child she knows whose mother dropped him off at a friend’s house for a couple of hours and picked him up a week later. She told…
The Smiley Face
Have you used a smiley face lately in an email or text? Me, too. I like to do it the old-fashioned way with a colon and an ending parenthesis (can anything electronic be old-fashioned?), but when I do that on…
In the Hollow with Jo
The Cumberland River meanders through our county here in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Since we live along one of its tributaries, we can see a bit of bottom land out our front window, but surrounding us on every…
In Their Own Words
Once Ray and I finished proofreading the 150 lessons of Exploring World History, it was time to make the corrections. Not only have we learned that the best way to proofread is in pairs, but the best way for us…