This is a totally dorky post and almost completely pointless. However, for no good reason benownst to me, I’m thrilled about having my boys read these books this upcoming school year… Thankfully, my mom kept a lot of books from when we were growing up and when they had moved a few years ago and [...]
Archive for the Children Category
Moore Mcguffey Readers
Posted 11 August 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling, Literature | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Things I Love | 1 Comment
Preparing for Homeschooling
Posted 27 July 2011 by adminTagged As: Homeschooling | Categories: Children, Homeschooling, Things I Love | Leave a Comment
Lately I’ve been consumed with planning out the upcoming school year. My 6 year old will be starting the second grade and my 4 (almost 5) year old will be starting the first grade. As if that doesn’t sound crazy enough, add an energetic 3 year old, an attention-loving 1 year old, and a pregnant [...]
Expecting #5
Posted 6 July 2011 by adminTagged As: Pregnancy | Categories: Children, Pregnancy | Leave a Comment
Well, we finally told our families over the holiday weekend so now I’m free to share the good news…. Another sweet little baby bundle of happiness will be joining our family sometime next February! I kind of feel like going from a family with 4 children to 5 children all of a sudden qualifies us for [...]
2 Timothy 4:2-5
Posted 15 June 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Ways that Work (for me) | Leave a Comment
If you’ve read my recent post “Breath In…breath out” then you’re already familiar with my recent little meltdown. If you haven’t read it, I encourage you to do so. In my post I mentioned that I had called my mom to vent out all my frustrations and in doing so, she offered me some great [...]
Giving My All
Posted 10 June 2011 by adminTagged As: faith, homeschool | Categories: Children, Faith, Homeschooling, Parenting | Leave a Comment
As we’re nearing the last stretch of our homeschooling year, I’m already planning out what we’ll be doing in the fall. And as I sat at my kitchen table pondering which language we should study first, which keyboarding curriculum will be the best, and which Bible study will provide the most nourishment to these little [...]
Teacher Not Hall Monitor
Posted 25 February 2011 by adminTagged As: behaviour, children, family, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | 2 Comments
Sometimes, as parents, it’s easy to forget that our role should resemble that of teacher more than that of hall monitor. I find there are days that I seem to spout off rules left and right with the words seeming to float into oblivion without being heard or understood by the little ears they were [...]
When Your Kids Won’t Eat Dinner
Posted 9 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | 2 Comments
My kids have never been really good eaters. In fact, it used to be a major struggle getting them to eat dinner. So, what I’m about to write is coming from someone who knows what it’s like to fight with your kids and not from someone who’s just always had it easy at mealtime and [...]
The Fatherless
Posted 8 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, family, home, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Parenting | 2 Comments
Adoption and foster care have been on my mind a lot over the past week. My husband and I have always said that these are things that we want to do later in life after we’ve finished having our own biological children. Foster care is what really pulls at the strings of my heart and [...]
Great Patience and Careful Instruction
Posted 4 February 2011 by adminTagged As: children, faith, family, parenting | Categories: Children, Faith, Homemaking, Parenting | 2 Comments
A few years ago I was reading my Bible and I came across 2 Timothy 4. I know I had read this passage before, but reading it again as a mom shed a whole new light on what it meant to me personally. It soon became a passage of Scripture that I based my mothering [...]
Stop the Whining!
Posted 1 February 2011 by adminTagged As: behaviour, children, parenting | Categories: Children, Parenting, Ways that Work (for me) | Leave a Comment
// I sometimes wonder if my almost 3-year old daughter is capable of going more than 15 minutes without whining. The incessant, high-pitched words that are drawn out to be twice the length they’re meant to be is enough to send chills up and down my spine. Since I have a tendency to whine, I’m [...]
