About Robin
I’ve been homeschooling for almost twenty years. My husband Ronnie and I have a “yours, mine, and ours” blended family of eleven children and thirteen grandchildren. To learn more about my homeschool beliefs visit Our Homeschool Journey and Homeschool Methods.
Important Disclaimer: Our life is far from perfect. I have all the spiritual and emotional battles others have, maybe more. I am not perfect, but forgiven. Anything encouraging or uplifting on this blog is from the Holy Spirit. Anything that isn’t is because I wasn’t listening very well that day. I love God and want to serve Him. I fall short daily but I don’t give up.
I’m an author. You can see my books here. Titles include The Heart of Wisdom Teaching Approach, What Your Child Needs to Know When, Wisdom: An Internet-Linked Unit Study, A Family Guide to the Biblical Holidays, and Ancient History: Adam to Messiah.
I enjoy God’s Word, family, horses, reading, writing, and digital scrapbooking. I like container gardening, quilting and smocking if I can squeeze them in my schedule.
Five Reasons I Blog
1. To bring glory to God: This blog is my expression, a celebration of things I enjoy and believe will encourage others. God is the focus of my life and will therefore be reflected here. Blogging with this goal is obedience to Titus 2 . This passage instructs older women to ” teach others what is good.” Blogging helps me do this with other homeschoolers and with my grown children. I can give homeschool advice, spiritual insights, recipes, and scrapbook pages to my married daughters or anyone else who stops by. How neat is that?– to be able to document (by date) thoughts and ideas for your children.
2. To grow spiritually: Journaling is an important part of my spiritual walk and part of my process of Bible study. I record insights, prayers, quotes, and things I discover. I used to write by hand on legal-size yellow notepads. Now I keep my journaling on my computer and blog. Here you will get nuggets of my personal trials, struggles, growth, joys and triumphs in my relationship with God.
3. To learn new things: I write to learn. I record my personal reactions to matters by writing as I study topics–I learned about blogging by writing about it. I comprehend the material, record my findings, restructure the new information, and then share my understanding. When I began homeschooling I wrote down my goals and checklists that turned into my first book. I continued documenting our homeschool journey and the methods that worked for us and it turned into a 500-page book. I journaled my experiences studying Christianity’s history, Hebrew roots, and the biblical holidays and it turned into a 600-page book. Recently I’ve been writing to learn about Web 2.0.
4. To make friends: Blogging is more powerful than journaling because of the interaction aspect. Writing to encourage others is good, but relationship encouragement is better. Jesus is our example. He was an effective communicator, not just because of who He is and what He said, but because He listened.Your comments give me another viewpoint (good, bad, or indifferent) and allow me to develop a relationship with you. Blogging with other Christians is fellowship. When readers allow me to know what they are thinking and feeling, it helps me to serve them and others better.
5. To organize my thoughts and writing: When I write my thoughts, feelings, perspectives, rants, and opinions on legal-size yellow pads, it’s random and disorganized. Placing these thoughts in a blog requires instant categorization. I begin by writing randomly but drag, drop, move, cut and paste drafts to their proper home and sit back and feel good about it–like the feeling you get when house is sparkly clean.
If you browse my blog, you will quickly learn that I love memes. Memes are fun writing prompts for me. I also love digital scrapbooking. I combined the two in my Favorite Memes List here.
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More About My Family
My husband Ronnie is retired from Homeland Security (before that he was an agent with Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms). We live in northern Virginia just outside Washington D.C. We are in the process of relocating to Shelbyville, TN.
This blog is dedicated to my Grandmother, I think blogging is the neatest thing since sliced bread and unit studies. Read Five Reasons I Blog.
I’d love to hear from you and get to know you. I love the blogging community interaction. Please leave a comment and I’ll most likely be in touch.
Family Photos
Ronnie and Robin Sampson
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. Psalm127:3
Commitment Pledge:
- We are a Christian family desiring to raise our children with the primary focus of Training their Hearts!
“I have no greater joy, than to hear my children walk in truth..” III John 1:4
“Train up the child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6
“Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!” Deuteronomy 5:29
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Hi Robin.
I just wanted to let you know that I posted my first part of my review of HOWTA that you sent me the link to download. You can find it here: http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ThreeLittleLadies/338060/
I will post more as I go along, maybe section by section. Thanks for letting me do this. I’ve been wanting to read the book, and yet had so much I already own that I haven’t read yet, I probably wouldn’t have gotten to it for a long time. It is a God thing. I am glad that I found your website today.
Carol
Hi, Robin.
I am really looking forward to blogging here. Thank you for providing this for all of us homeschoolers. I have read the faith statement, and I love what it says. I like the standard of God’s Word as a foundation for this blogging community you are starting.
You have been an absolute blessing to my family. I have really enjoyed the materials that your ministry sells. I have sincerely cried as my heart leaped with joy when I read them. You are a blessing from God. Thank you so much!!!!
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Hi Robin,
This is my first time finding your site. I so want to homeschool my children. They are in public school now and doing great with everything, but in my heart I really want them home with me and to be homeschooling them. I don’t have the confidence in myself though and am afraid that I won’t be able to do it, but reading all that I have today is helping me. I know I have to pray for wisdom and I know that the Lord will lead me and guide me. Their ages are 7, 12, and 15. Please pray for us. I will pray for your speedy recovery from your heart surgery. You are so blessed to have such a precious family and to have homeschooled all of these years. Glad I found you.
Stephanie
Robin—your testimony and family is awesome! God has plans for you—you have an obedient heart—you are pliable clay in His hands! I love your blog…I will return!!!
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Robin–
I just wanted to let you know that I got your comment on my blog and the heart question. I answered it there.
Hope you and your family are doing well!
Blessings–
Dana
Hi Robin!
I’m so glad I visited this morning. You have a wonderful site here. Looking forward to future visits with you.
I am really feeling like I am being lazy by spending so much time coming up with a mind map, then lesson plans, then daily lesson plans. I am trying to work on this approach for pre-school through 3rd grade. A 4 year plan, creation- noah for pre-k-kindergarten. I just want to know how much time you spent on lesson plans, how you worked it into your day or night. Do you have suggestions for mind mapping-examples or how you use it for lesson planning.
My husband and I are also have a large family, we, too,are blended. Between the 2 of us we have 10 children, and 2 grandchildren, with number 3 due in 3 weeks, and numbers 4&5 due in Sept. No, numbers4&5 are NOT twins, they have 2 different moms.
My step-daughter who has one of the grandchildren plans on home-schooling her when it is time,(she is only 17 months old now), but mom and dad both have learning disabilities, so I more than likely will be the one doing the home-schooling.
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Hi Robin,
I love your blog, you leave me inspired everytime I read it. May I ask what happened in your first marriage? I am struggling in my marriage with a husband with anger issues. He is not struggling as he doesn’t see what the problem is. We spent months in counseling . . . nothing changed. Nothing will change and I feel stuck in this marriage. Is that what God wants for me?
Hi Robin,
Thank you so much for sharing your story on some other christian’s reactions to your remarriage. I have been divorced for many years and was saved after my divorce. I have a lovely daughter who is currently at ‘normal’ school though I really want to homeschool her. At the moment, though, her father will not allow this. However, I’m still getting discretely prepared because I know that God is the one that has laid it so much on my heart.
I found your website after a supernatural impartation of wisdom at church and am so blessed to see that someone else has a similar heart to mine. I loved the extracts of the heart of wisdom and delight based learning books available on your website and am hoping to purchase the full books as soon as possible.
Also was delighted to find out I wasn’t alone with struggling to create order and beauty in my home!! I have got a copy of one of the books that you recommended, ‘Messie No More’.
Thank you so much for being you.
Blessings,
Joy
Hi there Robin, I think what you and what you are doing is fabulous. I am in the process of building my family site and my blog is there but I LOVE all the information you have for digital scrapbooking and most importantly how your number1 thing is to bring glory to God. You are listed on my links page (Misty’s links) on my site. Don’t feel bad about being towards the bottom (She ROCKS is how it is listed) that just means you went up first. Hope tpo hear from you but if not I will keep reading. Take care and God Bless!
Faithfully Serving Him,
Misty
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