Bria Crawford is the eldest of nine children and maintains her sanity with a regular diet of dark chocolate, coffee and good literature. She lives in the beautiful foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, enjoying the tranquil life of farming. Bria's interests include capturing life with her lens, sewing and creating timeless fashions, raiding the library of all classics, and learning Beethoven. Bria started her education out in a private Christian school and later the Lord called her career mother home and led them to homeschooling. The Lord now has called Bria's heart home until He brings Prince Charming along. She is doing her utmost to bring glory to God and honor to her father and family.
You can find Bria blogging about one of her passions over at Open Book Reviews, and you'll enjoy taking a peek at her photography website too!
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By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford The King of the universe came to conquer the world. His method? Washing feet. For you were called to freedom, brothers (and sisters). Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Galatians 5:13 We young women are in a time […]
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. The Declaration of Independence Do […]
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and children, to be sensible, pure, good homemakers, and submissive to their […]
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford Grace, patience, kindness, gentleness, self-control. Five out of the eight fruits of the spirit deal squarely with our behavior, speech and demeanor. In a culture where “bold and brazen” are encouraged, how can a woman cultivate a spirit of meekness becoming an ornament of grace? So often, I do not […]
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford As our family plans meals each week, we try to maintain a healthy diet, and I’m sure others share the difficulty of finding healthy, but tasty food. I’m not one of those people that would say, “cut out all unhealthy foods, period.” But counteracting those unhealthy products can make a […]
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford When we first began homeschooling, I had been used to an eight-hour day of school with information being fed to me. I don’t believe I paid attention to a fraction of what we were taught. When we started homeschooling, it was a new venture, but I still expected the same […]
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford If you have a large family, particularly with several young children, you know what it’s like keeping organized and attempting to get everything done in a day. Sometimes it just gets crazy trying to keep the house clean, but you know you can’t spend all day cleaning, yet you can’t […]
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford During the past few months since the April Tornado, God has taken our family down a path of hardship. Many lessons have been learned and are still being learned. It is a difficult experience in the Refiner’s fire. I am thankful for this time of hardship, as crazy as that […]
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford Television and the computer aren’t the only things that keep us from wholesome literature and imagining for ourselves. We can become avid readers, but are we reading the kind of books that actually cultivate knowledge? Are they wholesome, and do they ooze quality and wisdom? Or do they simply entertain […]
By Contributing Writer, Bria Crawford Another excellent example of a mother who prospered her children’s mind is Ben Carson’s mother Sonya Carson. “Sonya had only had an education until third grade. After leaving her husband who was abusive, she was left with supporting her sons Ben and Curtis. Ben was eight and Curtis was 10 […]
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Joyfully Investing in Younger Siblings’ Education
By Contributing Writer, Stephani Upon graduation I had four younger siblings. Now I have six. Two of my sisters have graduated high school, another sibling is in junior high, and the three youngest are all under the age of 6! You guessed it… my parents will be homeschooling for years to come… Impacting the Next […]
Homeschooling: The Topic of Conversation
By Contributing Writer, Kelly Crawford I was driving, rather lost in thought, zoned by the double lines in front of me, when he asked the third question. “But how will they know?” I had probably answered his first two questions with a half-lying, “I don’t know”, the result of not really listening. “How will they […]
Homeschooling: It’s Never Too Late to Start
By Contributing Writer, Marci Ferrell When Natalie shared that August’s topic would be homeschooling, I had concern as to what I could add or share about this month. Most of the contributors here are seasoned homeschooling parents or have been homeschooled themselves, while my experience is homeschooling one child…and not until he was in eighth grade. […]
Ten Criteria for Choosing Homeschool Curriculum
By Contributing Writer, Bambi Moore This is the time of year that I’m cleaning out closets, donating or swapping books with other homeschool moms, and also making purchases. As homeschoolers we are blessed to have so many options out there, but what works for one family may not work for another. Also, there are so […]
Demystifying the Institute for Excellence in Writing
By Natalie Klejwa, Editress of Visionary Womanhood Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) Home educating mothers tend to be overwhelmed by two subjects in particular. Science and writing. OK. Upper level math too. Since I’m not much of a left-brained gal, I won’t be writing any posts about dead animal dissections or the wonders of […]
By Contributing Writer, Terry Covey There are countless methods, styles, and curricula for successfully teaching our children at home. And I could share some of those differing views, along with the benefits of various approaches, but just as I am prone to do, you might begin to question your own program or feel compelled to […]
By Contributing Writer, Carmon Friedrich 25 years. We are coming up on that many years of homeschooling our children. Almost a quarter century! That’s not long enough to consider ourselves pioneers in this endeavor, but it does mean we have “seen it all” minus the persecution of the brave folks who forged a path that […]
Hope in Christ, Not in Curriculum
By Contributing Writer, Molly Evert August is an exhilarating month for me. I always look forward to the start up of our homeschool. By the time August rolls around all the school books have been bought, lesson plans are prepared, and the schedule has been tweaked. Nothing has happened—yet—to ruin my idyllic dreams that this […]
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