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Hi, I’m Emily. Author of Majoring in Motherhood. Homeschooling mom of six. Passionate about Jesus and encouraging moms . Thanks for visiting!

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From the blog

  • Making Kids in Our Image
    My kids do not look like me. I mean, there are some traces of the fact that I am, in fact, their mother. Their big smiles, long eyelashes, and the stubborn cowlick on the right side of their heads bear witness to the fact that it was indeed I who carried them around for nine… Read more: Making Kids in Our Image
  • Not Home for Christmas
    Christmas Hope for Exiles and Wanderers “I think I’m homesick,” I said to my daughter one day. It felt strange to say as we were, in fact, standing in our home. Home was no longer really home though. We weren’t there to stay. We were only there to grab a few things after smoke detectors… Read more: Not Home for Christmas
  • Needy and Unashamed
    House Fires and Peeling the Onion of Need It’s been a little over a month since we were awakened by smoke detectors in the wee hours of the morning, going from sleepy irritation to wide-eyed alarm and action in just a matter of minutes. As a PSA, sometimes your smoke detector is going off because… Read more: Needy and Unashamed