by Alissa | Nov 18, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog
Two years ago I shared with you the story of my twins’ birth. They were ten weeks premature and none of us were ready for them to come when they did. But they came. And even though their 7-week stay in the NICU was one of the most difficult times of my life, I...
by Alissa | Aug 11, 2020 | activities for kids, Alissa McClure blog, education, educational activities for kids, homeschool
Right now the printer is spitting out pages from homeschoolcreations.net that I am maybe a little too excited to be printing. The TEKS say my 6th grade sons should be learning world cultures this year and I have this grand idea in my mind that we will study different...
by Alissa | Jul 11, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog, giveaway, giveaway, Joy, random thoughts
I like my name. I’ve always liked my name. Alissa. It starts and ends with the same letter. It has two pretty squiggles in the middle. It doesn’t have any letters hanging down. Neat. Not too long, not too short. It starts tall and bold with an “A” and the height of...
by Alissa | Jul 10, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog, giveaway, giveaway, Joy, random thoughts, self-improvement
In case you missed it or forgot (I mean, there have been a few other things going on this year…), my One Little Word for 2020 is SHINE. Yes, SHINE. I was not comfortable with this word. It made me cringe and recoil at first. As I mentioned before when I first...
by Alissa | Jul 9, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog, giveaway, giveaway, Joy, motherhood
Last night I cut my daughter’s fingernails. All of them. And that’s a pretty big deal because a few months ago, doctors weren’t sure she’d have a fingernail growing back on her left hand’s middle finger. They were optimistic, but not...
by Alissa | Jul 8, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog, giveaway, Joy, motherhood, random thoughts, self-improvement, strengthen family
2020 has been hard. And I won’t even pretend to understand how hard it’s been for everyone else. I have a pretty active imagination, but I know I couldn’t even imagine some of the situations you have had to deal with. I’m so sorry. I keep...
by Alissa | Jul 7, 2020 | giveaway, giveaway, Joy, motherhood, random thoughts, self-improvement, Updates
For the entire year I had been planning to attend a writing retreat. I was so excited to go and spend some time focusing on the novel I am working on for hours on end. But then, of course, plans changed. Remember how I wrote about how unexpected last summer was for...
by Alissa | Jul 6, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog, giveaway, giveaway, motherhood, strengthen family
If there is one thing I have learned in the first eleven years of motherhood, it is this: nobody—I’m repeating it louder for those in the back–NOBODY has it all figured out. We see those moms who seem to have their stuff together and we think, “Man!...
by Alissa | Jun 17, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog
Our pandemic-induced school-at-home time has come to an end. It can officially be summer! I know that many are returning to “normal,” but because there is a possibility that somebody out there will need to accommodate their children in an at-home learning...
by Alissa | May 30, 2020 | Alissa McClure blog
There are a lot of questions about race right now and though I am heartbroken about how we’ve gotten here, I am hopeful that now that we’re here, we make a little progress in the right direction for a change. The following are three fantastic books about...
