Hearth and Homeschool
Samantha N Stephenson
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About the Show
Hearth & Homeschool is your guide to creating prayerful, joy-filled family life in a modern world.
Each episode offers practical tips, prayerful rhythms, and encouragement for parents navigating the challenges and blessings of homeschooling, family life, and spiritual formation. We explore how to raise children with virtue, resilience, and wonder, all while savoring God’s presence in the ordinary.
From the kitchen table to the classroom at home, we cover the real questions of motherhood and faith: how to homeschool through the chaos, nurture unhurried rhythms, and cultivate a home rooted in prayer and purpose.
Through reflections, hands-on strategies, and occasional guest conversations, Hearth & Homeschool helps you embrace your calling and flourish right where God has planted you—raising saints in a digital age.
Want more peace and purpose in your homeschool?
Download the FREE Intentional Homeschool Reset, a Prayerful Guided Journaling Retreat for Creating a Calm, Christ-Centered Home at https://hearthandhomeschool.substack.com
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39 episodes — long track record
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Recent Episodes
Should I Homeschool My Kids? 7 Tips for Making a Prayerful Decision
Wondering if homeschooling is right for your family? In this episode, we explore practical and prayerful ways to discern your homeschooling path. Learn how to listen to your heart, seek guidance, and…
How to "Do It All": Finding Balance as a Homeschool Mom
What if “doing it all” isn’t about better time management, perfect routines, or heroic productivity—but about surrendering what you have to God and letting Him do the multiplying?In this episode of…
Finding Hope in Mary with Donna Marie Cooper-O'Boyle
This week on the Mama Prays podcast, I chat with Donna Marie Cooper O’Boyle, prolific Catholic author, EWTN TV host, and mother. Tune in and you will hear:—The story of her friendship with St. Teresa…
Carmelite Principles for a Peaceful Home with Tina Mayeux
Listen to the wisdom of Tina Mayeux, sorority girl turned Carmelite turned stay-at-home mom. Tina shares all about what drew her to the Carmelites, as well as the ordering principles of Carmelite…
What the Saints Can Teach Us about Marriage with Caitrin Bennett
This week on the Mama Prays podcast, I am thrilled to be bringing you this interview with Caitrin Bennett, Catholic homeschooling mother of 3 and author of the book Holier Matrimony. We had an…
Let Love In
Where do the walls come from?…Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE, REVIEW, and SHARE this episode with another mom who’s pursuing holiness!CONNECT:Substack NewsletterEmail: samantha @ mamaprays.comBOOKS:Mama…
Sanctifying the Housework
What is God’s will for you right now?…Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE, REVIEW, and SHARE this episode with another mom who’s pursuing holiness!CONNECT:Substack NewsletterEmail: samantha @…
Too Busy for the Better Part
After guiding my hand to tie tiny apron strings around her, my daughter busies herself with miniature pots and pans. She is a flurry of culinary activity, feeding me magic soup and dandelion…
A Humble Gift
Tiny hands flutter in a flurry of genuflection as we wade our way into the front pew. We’re early by at least 30 minutes, but all the rest have filled up with Mass regulars, eager to beat our the…
Delayed Obedience Is Disobedience
A pile of odds and ends, the leavings of the day, sit at the base of our stairs like a pile of rubble after a domestic avalanche of orphaned shoes, Hot Wheels, and broken pieces of chalk. This is the…
Overflow
If you clicked on this expecting a feel-good piece about God’s graces overflowing, I apologize for the story you’re about to hear. This story is about as unspiritual as it gets. This is a story about…
Your Motherhood Matters
“Mom, how big am I?” my son bounces on his heels, eagerly awaiting my answer.“What do you mean, honey?” I ask. I am slow to look up from my reading, so I miss his gesture towards the wall. “I mean,…
When Bringing Littles to Mass Seems Pointless
One of the first blog posts I ever wrote was an earnest, idealistic piece on the importance of bringing our children to Mass. Several years and four kids later, those sentiments are as obsolete as…
Do You Want to Be Healed?
Several months ago, I was enveloped in the deep blackness of my autoimmune disorder. I had lived for several years with minimal symptoms following my diagnosis, but this past fall, it sucked me…
Will You Just Hold Still?
Our youngest son was the quietest in the womb. “Have you felt the baby move today?” my nurses would ask at our prenatal appointments. “No,” I’d reply, “But that’s not unusual for him.” That stillness…
Being There: The Power of Presence in Suffering
It’s quiet in the dark, except for the screaming. I hold my one-year-old, skin hot from fever, as he writhes against me. “No, no” he cries, little hands trying to force me away. He wants neither down…
Another Baby: Trusting God in the Face of Fear
I laugh as the line turns pink. Earlier this week, I told my husband that although we had been trying to conceive our second child for a few months, just one week of juggling night school, full-time…
Monsters in the Dark: Facing Our Sin and Shame with God's Light
“Mommymommmymommy!” The breathless stringing together of my title is familiar, but the urgency with which my daughter calls is uncharacteristic. Her voice is laced with fear, so I rush into her room.…
Breaking Down the Walls: Learning to Ask for and Receive Help
When I open the door and see my mother-in-law standing there, something inside cracks and tears escape down my face. I’m not dressed. Toys and bits of food litter the floor. I’ve been wracked with…
Tantrums and Control: Learning to Love and Let Go
The heat is creeping towards 100 degrees today, so ice cream sounds like a good idea. It could have been a good idea if my toddler had gotten her nap. Instead, we are out and about with my aunt,…
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