December 14, 2024 New Ace in Our Place This is the face of pure love! Kimberly has been waiting for her puppy for over five years. She was promised the next puppy in the house could be hers but when we moved into a restrictive rental that barely allowed Christina’s [...]
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?” [...]
What is most important in your life? What came to your mind? Your career? Your family? World peace? Your children? Leaving your positive mark on society? Your business? [...]
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 [...]
WOW! Just wow, personal study and crazy writer's brain thoughts on a recent Sunday School lesson! [...]
August 17, 2021 Hold Longer A song came on the radio today. It was the first time I heard it. Casting Crowns’ song called “Scars In Heaven” played while I was on the way to after school pickup. The first line says “…if I had known it was the last [...]
May 26, 2020 Life is Risk Life is risky. How many people get out alive? (I’ve heard that from two sources this week, and it got me thinking…) Our goal since the beginning of time has been to build this net of safety around our family to allow our offspring [...]
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 [...]
A birth story of our little angel (and a slideshow of proud siblings & family!) [...]
Ever feel like everything in the world is raining down on your shoulders and you can't keep anything up? That was today... [...]