I’m sitting here with a cup of coffee looking back at the second week of school. At 1:00 in the afternoon. I have to state that fact because I tweaked the schedule this week, and we were still able to finish school around lunch time most days. Don’t worry. My kids expect …
I love new beginnings! The first week of school is always the most fun, and I wish I could hold on to the newness and enthusiasm and pull it out in April. Of course, I’m always a tad bit more excited than my children are. 🙂 Getting the school room …
Note: The last few days of this series, I will share stories of those that have influenced my own. I am forever grateful to God for each of them. Mentoring is very “in” now. It is perhaps what apprenticeship was 100 years ago. While formal mentoring sessions may be …
Note: The last few days of this series, I will share stories of those that have influenced my own. I am forever grateful to God for each of them. It was Bible class. The class that most of us seventh graders checked out of because, after all, we heard …
“Your daughter can’t marry him. It will never work. They are both firstborns. Everyone knows firstborns are too competitive and don’t make good marriage partners.” Such was the sage advice given to my mother after we announced our engagement. Stereotype or not, both us are competitive. We each like to …
“I never once heard my mother raise her voice.” “The first time I ate a pizza that wasn’t homemade was in college.” “Through the years, my mother never missed a day of reading her Bible.” “We never had paper plates in our home. Mama always set the table with her …
If you are a mother, remember the first time you held your very own child? You were so overjoyed and excited to finally meet the little one you had waited so long to meet! Whether he grew inside you for nine months or whether you went through the seemingly endless …
My husband and I have determined that we want to teach our children about finances God’s way from a young age. Like most people, we have made some mistakes with money. We want to keep our children from making the same mistakes if possible. With children that are still young, …
Just as the weather follows predictable seasons where I live, I have found that my homeschooling has seasons as well. While I wouldn’t call them predictable, they are constantly evolving just the same. Some of this is central to parenting in general, but our homeschool has taken many different forms …
For most of us, the classes called “electives” were a large part of our education experience. Most of us sat through a few years of a foreign language and endured the rigors of jumping jacks and running in gym class. You may have played clarinet in band or made a crooked …
