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Mom Encouragement at HEAV

17 Thursday Mar 2016

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One thing I am really looking forward to this year is the “Chocolate with Encouragement Pajama Party” for moms this year! In fact it was one of the first things I signed up for!

Here is the description: Get your pajamas, get comfy, and join Heidi St. John for a delicious time of gourmet chocolate, coffee, and sweet fellowship–and, of course, encouragement.  Don’t miss this chance to laugh, share, and enjoy yummy desserts with other homeschool moms! (And yes, Heidi will be wearing pajamas!)

Especially since I saw that Heidi St. John is going to be there, and we are best buds. Because of course I once interviewed her for this blog and got my picture taken with her at a previous HEAV convention!

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And CHOCOLATE. Need we say more?

Now, if you miss the Pajama Party, there are plenty of chances to still hear my “bestie” share! HEAV recently announced the speaker sessions, and Heidi St. John will be giving these talks:

The Distracted Mom (iMom)
Better for Best: Keeping Christ as the Center of Your Home
Biblical Discernment in an Unbiblical Age
The Busy Homeschool Mom’s Guide™ to Daylight: How to Fit Your Size-16 Day into a Size 10
The Secret in the Sunset

Whatever you do, be sure to check them out!!!

Sign up for my HEAV Convention Pass Giveaway!! HEAV’s convention is June 9-11th this year!

Yes, you can win a pass so you can attend HEAV’s convention for free! (Leaving more money to spend on stuff! WAHOO!) Optional Programs are not included, and if you have already registered and you win, HEAV will credit you for the amount of the free pass! This giveaway ends March 24 at midnight, so sign up now!

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Go to this Rafflecopter Giveaway And Good Luck!

 

HEAV- Home Educators Association of Virginia – website

“I am excited to be a blogger for HEAV this year. In exchange for sharing my honest opinion about this convention, I was provided with a family registration at no charge.”

 

 

 

 

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God’s Grace Made Perfect

24 Friday Jul 2015

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I think it’s perfectly “normal” to worry we’re screwing up our children! One thing I’ve learned about homeschooling – is that God uses it to point out my own weaknesses as much my kids’.

Sometimes I think that perhaps I shouldn’t be their greatest influencer since she seems to pick up my own bad habits/issues/sins so easily.  But I remind myself of two things.

1) God made ME their mama and not someone else. On purpose. And called us to homeschool.

2) God’s grace is made PERFECT in our weakness. If we didn’t mess up as parents, God would have no space to show His grace!

So, I now constantly pray that God will give our family lots of grace and fill in all the gaps where I fall so very short – no matter what the specific thing might be right then.

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Exercise Makes You a Better Homeschool Mom

20 Monday Jul 2015

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Last week I posted on how the HEAV recordings are good for your health. If that wasn’t good enough to convince you that exercising is good for you, here is an article I found: 6 reasons why exercise can supercharge your productivity. As you know I love reading business articles.  I love how I often get life-hack ideas from them, especially if you think about how it applies to you as a homeschool mom.

Most everything we read on homeschool mom blogs is about becoming more efficient, more productive, more — whatever. How to get the best deal, how to homeschool 10 kids at once, how to have a clean house and homeschool those 10 kids at once, etc. All really interesting articles on their own, but what they really boil down to is – how can you do more with the limited resource of YOU?

If you’ve been around for a while, you know I have gone hard-core gluten-free (undiagnosed celiac because my results were “inconclusive.” BLEH.) Living through this meant I have spent several years with about 25% of my previous energy levels, and couldn’t do half of what I used to do, and barely make it through the other half that I had to do, whether I felt like it or not. Through this experience, I realized that ENERGY, not just time, is my most valuable personal commodity. Can I do something had all new meaning.

So, becoming very productive and efficient took on greater and greater importance for me. How can I do more with less. How can I stretch that less of me that I had to spend to cover the necessities of things that have to get done?

Beyond my fav of their reasons –

  • Exercise will kick up your energy level
  • Exercise improves brain function
  • Exercise can spark a breakthrough idea
  • Exercise can help you find your optimal work-life balance (change that to “homeschool-rest of life balance” and you get the idea) –

here are a few of my own that I would add as a homeschool mom:

  1. Exercise gives you time to mentally chill AWAY from the kids. It took me time to figure out when I first started homeschooling how much I needed this. Public school has set hours, but when you homeschool it can feel like you are “on” as a teacher all the time! Looking to help learning happen 24 hours a day can be rewarding, but it can also lead to some serious brain fatigue! Sometimes you just need to turn the brain off for a while, and obviously doing this while working out is much better than vegging in front of the TV.
  2. Exercise reminds you that you are more than just a homeschool mom. Man, I could so write a book about that alone, but what I have found by making time for myself and my health is just one thing that reminds me there is more to me than just being a homeschool mom. My identity isn’t found solely by that title.
  3. Exercise is one way I can lead my kids by example. Part of my own personal parenting theory is that since kids learn best by watching what you do, that I really need to live the life I want them to lead as adults. I need to be the role model and example I want them to follow. A major component of that for me is that I want them to lead healthy lives. And how can they know how to do that if I (and their father, of course) don’t model that for them? Teaching them about nutrition, about healthy eating choices is a part of that. But also, showing them how important taking care of your physical body is another component. Whether I want to or not on that particular day, I want my girls to SEE ME taking time to take care of myself.
  4. Exercise can make me more healthy, which means I can then fulfill my regular roles. There is nothing like having your health taken away to help you appreciate it more. This falls under the “put your own oxygen mask on first” category. Even now, I am propped up on a couch not feeling my best, rather than spending it with my girls at the pool. If I want to be the person I want to be, the mom/wife I want to be; I have to take the steps to keep myself in a physical state that allows me to do so. (Please note – this is not me trying to be Superwoman, this is about me living at a level that is higher than “barely functioning.)
  5. Exercise makes me feel better about myself. I want my girls to have a healthy level of self-esteem, but again I have to role-model that for them. How can I do that if I have terrible self-esteem about my body? And I do, as I’m sure about 99.99999% of women in the US struggle with every day. But I want more for my girls. Is it possible to inoculate them from that particular disease? I can only doing it by living it out, and the only way I can live that out is by becoming healthy and feeling better about the skin that I am in. Taking care of my physical body is not only about losing weight (even though I really need that), it’s also about showing my girls that I value myself enough to take care of myself. I am worth it.

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Bring on the Girl Power! (Mid-Year Change of Plans, PART 4)

18 Thursday Dec 2014

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As I mentioned in the last post, we have decided to change up our homeschooling experience and going to continue with the idea of World Geography, but using literature to do it. We’ll also be focusing on “girl” books – either role models or lead female characters.  This all comes from my girls’ request that we study more “girl stories.”

From what I can tell online, there doesn’t seem to be any “female-focused” homeschool curriculum – except for the “homemaking” lessons. At best, I found a few “Women’s History Month” programs.

I feel like I need to put my own personal caveat in here. Please note this is MY personal feelings and beliefs. I am a “to each their own and to what God has called them to” kinda a gal. I have loved the opportunity to be home with my gals like I have. I also love the career that I now have, especially since it allows me to work from home and successfully build a fulfilling career. I do realize that not all women feel they are called to stay at home. I respect that God has called us all to different things. At the same time, it is evident that there is still a discrepancy for women – there are not enough of us in leadership, in the sciences, in technology sectors. I believe we all have to work to our strengths exactly where God has planted each of us to better our world and create more balance and opportunities for all. Finally, as a homeschooling mama of two girls, I feel it is my duty to prepare them as best as possible for whatever it is God might call each of them to, whatever that might be!

So after a deep long search, here are some of the best resources I’ve been able to find to support our “Homeschool Girl Power” plan! My focus has been to find good female biographies of strong female role models (taking care to evaluate them compared to our beliefs – no promoting trashy popstars just because they are girls), and also great “living books” and classic books with leading female characters.

(This year, we’ll be using the concept of studying world geography to organize our studies. So, we’ll be reading stories of females from around the world!)

A Mighty Girl  – MY FAVORITE RESOURCE!
American Heritage Girls
Secret Keeper Girl
Girls of American History
Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls
Time for Kids: World History Month
National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Women’s History Museum
Girl Museum
SheHeroes
SciGirls

I’m sure there are more, please feel free to share!

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Mid-Year Change of Plans, PART 3 (Bring on the Girl Power!)

17 Wednesday Dec 2014

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As you read in the previous post, homeschool this year really hasn’t been clicking for us.

In November, my oldest kept asking, “Where are all the girls? Why are we only reading about boy missionaries? Can’t girls be missionaries? Why are all these stories about boys?”

Wow.

I really had not noticed, but it was true. Sure, there was an occasional female in a story, but the examples in the books were primarily of boys. The missionary stories (the early ones – female stories come later in the year) were of males. And here is my 8-year-old just BEGGING for female stories, and female role models!

And no, I’m not trying to be all feminist crazy here, but isn’t my oldest right? Where are all the girl stories?

And so, I went in search of a female-focused homeschool curriculum. Not just a “Women’s History Month” or a random biography here or there, but a FULL curriculum that revolves around women’s stories and places through history.

And guess what? It really doesn’t seem to exist! (Please, if you know differently, let me know!!!)

Which of course, started me freaking out. I simply don’t have time to create the wheel from scratch! And yet, how could I do this without doing it all myself??? And what about the “world geography” focus we were supposed to be learning???

Thank you God for Facebook! I was able to get some great tips and other homeschooling mama’s calm me down. And this is when I started looking at the idea of notebooking and unit studies.

Notebooking Resources
Notebooking
How We Homeschool – Notebooking by Heidi St. John
Lapbooking Made Simple
Notebooking Fairy
Fifty Things to Put in a Notebook
Master Lapbooking List
Delight Directed Learning
Homeschool Share
Unit Study Database
EasyFunSchool Unit Study Index
Free Homeschool Unit Stories

So, after doing hours and hours of online searching I think we’ve come up with a plan. We are going to continue with the idea of World Geography, but using literature to do it. We’ll also be focusing on “girl” books – either role models or lead female characters.

Here are our first experience with this – reading Pippi Longstocking and studying Sweden! Next up, we are working our way through Heidi and learning more about Switzerland!

For science, I found this fabulous deal on Educents for The Human Body Detectives, and along with some great books that I have been collecting through thrifts stores and general book hoarding, I think we’ll really be able to do some great study work on the human body. I’m still working on ideas to really learn nutrition, etc correctly (not just the dumb food pyramid we grew up with), but I think the human anatomy stuff will last us quite a while.

Stay Tuned for for the final portion of this series, Part 4 of Mid-Year Change of Plans!

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Mid-Year Change of Plans, PART 2

16 Tuesday Dec 2014

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First Hints Your Homeschool Plan Isn’t Working

  • Mom is stressed, non enjoying homeschool, dreading doing school each day.
  • Kids are listless, and not wholeheartedly diving into the lessons.
  • The kids keep asking, “Can we do something else?” and the mom says “No, we don’t have time because we’ll fall behind on what we HAVE to do.
  • Homeschool is no longer fun and interesting.

Clearly, when homeschool is no longer a delight but drudgery, it’s time to mix things up.

First, analyze what things DO work!

There is no reason to fix what’s not broken, right????

Teaching Textbooks is really working for us this year. Both girls are doing it now, and doing well.

Life of Fred is awesome. We love it in this house, and do it three times per week.

Our Math Fact Songs daily are working great, along with our Math Wrap-Ups. The girls are really getting their math facts drilled into their heads. So far, we are covering addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Division will be added sometime in the Spring.

SpellingCity.com is sorta working. It works when the girls decide to be slightly interested in spelling at all. Right now they just don’t care. I’m still working on that.

The grammar lessons that I am putting together are working. They are a ton of work to find and organize all of the resources I’m using, but the girls are truly learning and learning the grammar well. As long as I stay on top of it, which is always an issue!

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Learning Action Verbs by Creating an Action Verb Path!

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Playing Pronoun Games (from Scholastic Teacher’s Express)

Other things that are working: Homeschool Co-Op. I’m not completely thrilled about Co-Op, honestly. Frankly, it’s a really long drive, I was assigned one too many classes to assist in, and I go home completely exhausted each week. BUT, the girls love it. They are getting really good classes there – Spanish, science, PE, art, etc. So, we’re going to keep with it for another semester. Ballet is also working for us. The girls love to dance.

And then we had some random things we did that they liked. Here is one of us trying a science experiment I saw on Facebook – a “dancing raisins” experiment:

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Ask The Kids!

At this point, we asked the kids, “What do you like about what we’re learning?” “What do you like about what we’re doing right now?” The only thing mentioned from the MFW Exploring Countries and Cultures curriculum were the missionary biographies. Notably, nothing else was mentioned.

Then we asked them, “What would you want to learn about?” “What do you want to study?”

I know, it’s not rocket science, right? Up until this year, they were so happy just to learn, they really didn’t care what. This year, they are starting to have opinions. Strong ones.

First, of all, they wanted MORE science. “Real Science,” as my youngest put it. Lots more science. I started to ask what kind of science, and they even had thoughts about that – they want to learn about how the body works, and about nutrition. More reading of real books. More “real art” (again, from my 6-year-old) not silly craft projects. More focus on girls (more about that later). And holy heck, they want even more math. !!! Are they kidding me???

Clearly, this was a conversation that was long in coming.

Stay Tuned for Part 3 of this series, Mid-Year Change of Plans!

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Mid-Year Change of Plans, PART 1

15 Monday Dec 2014

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So, this year in the My Father’s World plan, we are supposed to do the “Exploring Countries and Cultures” year.

What I Like About This Curriculum:

  • It’s based on the family group learning together, which I’m a huge fan of.
  • It focuses on World Geography.
  • Also focuses on the biographies of missionaries and missionary work around the world. We have LOVED these stories, and I think this is a unique and novel approach.

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What I Dislike About This Curriculum

  • Just about everything else.

I have fought it, and fought it and fought it. I love My Father’s World, the company, the concept and the organization of it. It’s been absolutely perfect for us, until now.  I thought it was just me, but my girls started acting un-enthused for school. I thought I was going crazy, until I saw others also mention it on Facebook. It feels disjointed and choppy, my girls hate the science portion and think it’s lame. And the worksheets (country pages) just feel like worksheets for worksheets sake. We have spent the last few months going through the motions forcing this down our throats AND IT IS NOT WORKING.

Which of course started my entire freakout!

I always swore I would NOT be one of those homeschool moms. I was going to do my mountains and mountains and mountains of research in advance and be sure of everything I’m using before I buy it. (Yeah, I know. I can here you guys laughing all the way from here!)

Absolutely nothing this year has worked according to my plan. My old way of doing homeschool up to this point, DID NOT WORK NOW. And frankly, I don’t know how to homeschool (for me!) any other way than what I was doing! All my grand designs were going up in smoke.

Hubby was willing to do whatever I said we needed to do. And isn’t that frustrating, when he isn’t willing to be the bad guy? LOL

I timidly mentioned to him that our homeschool plan wasn’t working. That it felt choppy and disjointed and uncomfortable. Even those online who say they liked this year’s program admitted to heavily supplementing it. I felt discombobulated and disorganized and completely outta control.

I said this timidly, because I knew what this was going to mean. This was going to mean spending money.

But, when I told him that I needed to change things up, I think he felt relieved. He wants homeschooling to work for us, he wants for his wife to not be stressing about homeschool so much, he wants to come home to a wife and kids who are excited about what they are learning every day.

His “permission” to change, gave me the opening I needed to be willing to put this curriculum down and find another way to do school.

Stay Tuned for Part 2 of this series, Mid-Year Change of Plans!

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Yes, I Am a Mom.

11 Sunday May 2014

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Yes, I am a Mom. A Homeschooling Mom. A Stay-at-Home, now Work-from-Home Homeschooling Mom. With all that entails. It’s just who I am. It’s who I’ve become.

In the sermon we had today, the pastor referenced John 2, the story of Jesus turning water into wine. But, he talked about it from the perspective of Mary, which I found fascinating. Here are a couple of points that I wanted to share.

First of all, Mary was a MOM. A MOM,with bold and underlines! She was a mom first, with all that entails!  Even when the family was not her own, she was mothering in the background! Why do I think this? First of all, she was attending a wedding, so she must have known the family. But she also must have known them really well. Who was one of the few and possibly the first to find out they ran out of wine? Mary! Seriously, who else would have been doing that, but a total “mom”??????

I think of this example, and I think of all those women I had surrounding me growing up – not just my own mom, but all those who had a hand in mothering me:

My lovely Sunday School teachers who pretty much just loved me into Jesus as a child. For everyone one of you who are called to teach my children on Sundays and Wednesdays, Happy Mother’s Day.

Those surrogate moms, the ones who were moms of friends, who ran carpool with us and had my own mom on speed dial, kept an eye out on school trips, and I knew had the added permission/blessing of getting to give me that parental stink-eye when needed and my own mom wasn’t there do it herself, Happy Mother’s Day.

To those moms who taught me, the teachers who made a point of reaching out and making a real connection. To those who made sure I knew I was a real person in their eyes, not just a number. Whether you helped me get past fractions, or the proper way to pirouette, Happy Mother’s Day.

Those moms out there that didn’t know who you were, the women I looked up to, who showed me what grace, confidence, pure joy, and poise looked like, who were shining examples of being a woman, even more – being a Southern Lady while being a woman (and all you who have ever lived in the South understand what that is) – and a few did that without even being Southern!! Happy Mothers Day.

To some dear, sweet friends, who took me under your wing when I first became a Mom myself, who laughed and cried and just kept telling me, “Yes this is all completely NORMAL.” To the ones who encouraged me and told me, “trust those Momma instincts and follow them,” who opened up and let me see the “man” behind the curtain – guess what, they didn’t have it all figured out either? Happy Mother’s Day.

 

And you know what else strikes me about this passage? Mary wasn’t just “the mother of Jesus.” She was his MOM. His M-O-M mom. Seriously, who else would walk up to the Savior of the World, the one who had been prophesied about and had angels sing as his birth, and tell him what to do???? Only His Mom would, of course!

Cause a MOM doesn’t care who you are, she’s gonna get in your face and tell you the truth, no matter what. Mary knew exactly who her Child was. She SAW Him, saw Him for exactly who He was. She knew all that, but she was a MOM, and a MOM is going to make sure you live your potential and destiny. A MOM is going to believe in your potential, and live in complete faith of what you are called to be. (A quick joke aside, can you imagine being the mom of Jesus – being in the position of having a “come to Jesus” talk with your child, except He was ACTUALLY Jesus? How absolutely wild that would be?)

A MOM is also going to make sure you are equipped to the best of her ability. She couldn’t turn the water into wine (being a mom, she’d have already done that herself if she could). She couldn’t fill the containers with water.  But she made sure Jesus was equipped to do it. I know that sounds wrong – did Jesus really need help doing anything? I dunno, but I do know she got those servants together and made sure they were ready to obey His commands.

A MOM is also gonna step back and let you go. This MOM knew that at some point you have to step back and just let your children be. Let them fly own their own. And Mary did that. She believed in her Son, she did whatever was in her power to equip that child, and she stepped back and let Him do what He needed to do.

So, to my own mom, who accepted me for the crazy, outgoing, extroverted actress that I set out to be; who pushed me to be all that I could and should be and never ever let me settle for “mediocre,” but also let me be me, who accepts that I feel called to be a homeschooling mom even when to her that seems completely insane, and who still to this day I think would pull out a can of %$#$%# her momma bear-ness when either of her cubs is hurt, Happy Mother’s Day.

There are all kinds of Moms in this world, and whichever one you happen to be, Happy Mother’s Day.

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The Enricher of Your Home

13 Wednesday Apr 2011

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by Nancy Campbell

I received this as a mass email eons ago. I loved it so much that I printed it and framed it in my office. I found a link to it online, here.

Hebrews 3:13 , “Encourage one another daily.”

God has blessed us women with the ability to be sensitive to the needs around us. We sense when those in our family are in low spirits or need lifting up and encouraging. I believe this is one of the special priviliges and responsibilities we have as a wife and mother to be the Encourager in the home.

Our husbands are desparate for encouragement. They thrive on it. Encouragement will change their lives and even their attitude to us. Our children need encouragement. Encouragement is the rich soil in which they grow to their full development. We must give it daily, and even more than once a day. It should become a habit that flows from our lips.

But you are more than an Encourager. You are also the Enricher of your home. This word means ‘to make richer.’ Is your home filled with love and the joy of the Lord? Make it richer with more love. Perhaps there is no loving atmosphere in your home. Start filling it up with love. It won’t happen unless you do it. You are the Enricher, remember. You are the one who makes your home richer with all good things.

As you catch the vision to be the Encourager and Enricher of your home, you will also be the:

Enabler – enabiling your children to reach their full destiny.

Endearer – endearing your family to each other.

Enhancer – enhancing the atmosphere of love and joy in your home, making it richer day by day.

Enlarger – enlarging your heart to the needs of your family, and maybe even some orphans.

Enlightener – giving understanding and enlightenment of the ways of God to your children.

Enlivener – making your home alive with the presence of God.

Ennobler – training your children to be honorable and noble in all things.

Enthraller – enthralling your children with new ideas, creativity and the wonders of God’s creation.

Enthusar – enthusing your children to be ardent for God.

Entertainer – keeping your little children happy.

Enticer – enticing your children into the joy of prayer and reading God’s Living Word.

Enveloper – wrapping your children around with protection and love.

Envisioner – giving vision and hope to each member of the family.

Energizer – releasing the spirit of work and creativity in the home.

Engraver – engraving the names of your children upon your heart in prayer (Exodus 28:29-30)

Entreater – entreating your children to keep a straight course in the ways of God.

What an amazing vocation you have in your home!

Prayer: “Lord, please show me ways that I can make my home richer in love and the joy of your presence. Amen.”

Affirmation: I am enriching my home with lasting treasures.

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The Proverbs 31 Woman (nasb)

Description of a Worthy Woman

An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
And he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
She looks for wool and flax
And works with her hands in delight.
She is like merchant ships;
She brings her food from afar.
She rises also while it is still night
And gives food to her household
And portions to her maidens.
She considers a field and buys it;
From her earnings she plants a vineyard.
She girds herself with strength
And makes her arms strong.
She senses that her gain is good;
Her lamp does not go out at night.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff,
And her hands grasp the spindle.
She extends her hand to the poor,
And she stretches out her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of the snow for her household,
For all her household are clothed with scarlet.
She makes coverings for herself;
Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Her husband is known in the gates,
When he sits among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them,
And supplies belts to the tradesmen.
Strength and dignity are her clothing,
And she smiles at the future.
She opens her mouth in wisdom,
And the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
She looks well to the ways of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children rise up and bless her;
Her husband also, and he praises her, saying:
"Many daughters have done nobly,
But you excel them all."
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
Give her the product of her hands,
And let her works praise her in the gates.

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