What Is It?
Do you have a son? I do. Have you ever heard this yelped in a very over-excited voice that bounces off the walls of your house? “Mom! Can I kill it?” [...]
The Miracle of Friends
The Miracle of Friends - aka down to one car on a meet weekend with college and work too!! #2023 #Family #Friends #Friend #Blessings #Blessing #TheBlessingOfFriends #TheMiracleOfFriends #OpenHearts #FriendshipIsAwesome #GymnasticsMeet #SavannahTrip #Kupets2023 #GodsHandIsInEverything [...]
Science Add-Ons To Curriculum
Science Add-Ons To Curriculum October 22, 2022 One of the advantages to homeschooling is being able to pick curricula. Most of us would agree that our children can recite movie lines – sometimes even if they’ve just seen the movie twice. We used BBC Nature with David Attenborough for science [...]
I’m Fine (Don’t Go Deep)
March 13, 2021 I’m Fine (don’t go deep) You know, someone says politely, “How are you today?” Preprogrammed for courtesy, we reply automatically, “I’m fine.” But are you really “fine?” Or does that really mean, “I’m hurting, but don’t ask?” In our society, it’s so easy to fall into the [...]
Judgments
What do you instantly presume based on a look? This cup, for example: [...]
Read Me A Story
Read Me A Story! February 21, 2020 One of the things I like best in the whole world is to read books. Aloud. To children. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading personally too, but there is just something so amazing about getting to play all characters in a book [...]
Questions:
September 23, 2019 Questions I love how children ask questions. Sometimes their questions make you go search something. Like “what is a rainbow?” or “why are leaves green?” Sometimes their questions mirror your own; but those you won’t speak. You know, questions that your doubting mind asks but your thinking [...]
Word Origins : Diaper
April 2, 2019 Word Origins: Diaper The girls and I read the “Princess Diaries” series (a series of children’s books written in diary-form about real life events as known in the lives of historical princesses and female leaders). In there, they discovered the English word for the bits of cloth [...]
Pondering in My Heart
My pregnancy brain thoughts about Mary in her culture and her time - and how it relates to us in our time. [...]
The Rumble of Life
How I love the blessing of carrying life! [...]