I used to be so good at coming up with crafts and fun activities with my oldest. I was the typical overachieving first time mom. Daily we would paint, make a fun craft, or engage in some type of educational and creative play. Let’s just say I had a lot of energy and creativity…
April Family Highlights
April was a vapor around here. I blinked and it was gone. Somehow time keeps speeding by faster and faster, even though I try to live a slower paced life. My grandpa turned 80 this month, and I asked him if it seemed like time is going much faster now than in his youth. …
Why We Chose the Charlotte Mason Method and our 1st Grade Plan
We just finished our first year of homeschooling with my 5 year old daughter. We used My Father’s World curriculum, and overall it was a good experience. Bailey has learned her months of the year, calendar basics, basic phonics skills, writing and reading simple 3-4 letter words, addition and subtraction up to ten, introduction…
Real Food Resurrection Rolls
We love celebrating holidays around our house, but as Christians, we try to make sure we are celebrating the real significance of the holiday. Easter is no exception. Jesus’ resurrection from the grave is something to celebrate!!! We’ve been making these resurrection rolls in our home for a couple of years now. The point…
First Signs of Spring and the Beauty of the Season
I adore the first signs of Spring after a long cold winter. It’s as if God himself is breathing new fresh life back into his creation. What was dead and brown is being replaced with tender green shoots emerging from the earth to greet us with a new season.
March Family Highlights
I thought it would be fun to document our monthly highlights to give you a little sneak peak into our family life each month. I can’t promise this will be a regular series. I’m not real reliable like that. 😉 But today, you get highlights.
Staying Sane as a Stay at Home Mom
Photo courtesy of Kairos Photography This is not a “mommy war” post. If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you should know that I don’t play that game. Working, stay at home, work at home, or any combination, I think a woman has the right to choose whatever path is best for her…
I am just like you.
I struggle. I just want to make that perfectly clear to those of you that read this blog. I struggle just like you. Yes, it may seem to you at times that I have much of my life together, but what you see are mere highlights in the midst of chaos. Over the past couple…
Making Christmas Meaningful and More Than Just Presents
When my kids are old and grown, I want them to look back on Christmas pasts and remember many things. I want them to remember fun events that we did together as a family. I want them to remember the smell of cookies that we baked together. I want them to remember delivering gifts…
A Lesson on Grace From a Five Year Old
Sometimes I get things right. Most of the time though I fumble through this parenting gig, picking myself up as I go, dusting myself off, and trying again. Today I learned a lesson in grace, and I learned this lesson from my five year old.
