June 24, 2018 Attitude of Gratitude Have you ever felt depressed because something you planned for didn’t come to pass? Something you wanted to do with someone didn’t pan out? Have you ever thought you did everything you could but were still shoved down? Sometimes an unexpected illness happens even [...]
May 27, 2018 “The Fallen” Sometimes art inspires me. Sometimes it’s hard to visualize large numbers. These memorials do an excellent job. I’ve heard of the origin of Decoration Day (Memorial Day) and often thought about the hearts of the women decorating the graves of fallen soldiers during the War [...]
May 13, 2018 Mother’s Day 2018 (Yes, that’s my crazy, fun, brood with their Dad! – the featured image is with me!) Today is Mother’s Day. I’m grateful for my mother; for all the guiding and love. As an adult, I’ve come to see that a lot of mothers compare [...]
April 12, 2018 Homeschooling Challenge: Their Own Pace One of the challenges I’ve discovered in our home school journey comes from my philosophy to never keep one student back for another. I allow them to advance at their own pace – if this means we spend eight weeks constantly studying [...]
April 6, 2018 Cousin Bonds I love watching the awesome relationships between my children and their cousins. Cousins are something like siblings you don’t live with. They know you, accept you just as you are, enjoy normal everyday things with you, and share one set of grandparents. For my children, [...]
April 2, 2018 Fun and Games Yesterday for Easter Sunday we went to an Easter Party with the Landmark Family. Any time we get together is a party. (You should come on Saturday nights at 6:30pm, it’s never boring!) We call ourselves the Landmark Squirrels, which inspired a group of [...]
April 1, 2018 Happy Easter! Easter is a celebration of new life: Once upon a time a man was charged with many crimes. It appeared he’d lived a lifetime of crime. The incriminating evidence was there. Even the accused knew the judge would convict him – he was guilty. He’d [...]
March 24, 2018 “War Room” Thoughts Have you seen “War Room?” If not, please do so! It’s a wonderful movie that my children watch at least once every week or so. Miss Clara is their favorite character. Just in case you haven’t seen it, I’ll give you a tiny run [...]
March 23, 2018 Memory Hop to 2015 I love the memory thing on facebook that will show posts you’ve made years ago. This one was from March 21, 2015: What totally amazes me about babies and pregnancy is that no two are ever exactly alike. This pregnancy has been so [...]
New Release! Paperback version of "The Princess and the Swans" is now available! [...]