Spring Break Day 1: The Shirt War, Full House, Jesus, and The Vote

***This post does contain affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, April receives advertising fees.*** As we speak, Joshua and Caleb are playing basketball in the driveway while John David and Daniel are rolling around on the trampoline together. Alan is eating supper, and I am updating my blog for the first time in a week. Slacker. I’ve been working on photo albums through Snapfish lately. Y’all, photo books are 70% off this month (March), so I am making […]

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Tom Sawyer and the Most Important Commandment in the Bible

Sometimes I choose involuntary titles to read to my children. As in, I pick the book, and they have to listen. I have four boys, and with their personalities this is necessary if I ever want them to read a single classic novel. It worked well for the Little House series and Old Yeller, so why not Tom Sawyer? I do have the unabridged version of Tom Sawyer, which is on an 8th grade reading level and is chock full […]

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It was not a failure, though I thought it was at the time.

Failure stings when it’s something that means the world to you. It stings like getting stung by a HIVE OF BEES or 50 fire ants.

I set out to home school those two years with two objectives:

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What’s this Bible journaling craze all about?

I can see why Bible journaling is so popular right now. You can express yourself, learn scriptures, and create a visual in your mind that helps you learn your Bible better, all through Bible journaling. It’s definitely something worth trying out.

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The Weight of the Choices that We Make

Wow! What an election year, eh? Alan got to be in Washington, D.C. for election night, but it was not just me and the boys here. Nana came over too! We had an “election party”, which is basically where we feed the boys Oreos and let them fill out the electoral map with red and blue markers as the results come in. Of course, most of it had to wait until the morning. I always stay up as late as […]

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Fun Way to Teach the True Meaning of Christmas, with Giveaway!

John David is 3 years old, but he already knows that Christmas equals presents. He is also fully in love with Santa Clause, aka the King of Christmas. And in all fairness, who wouldn’t love a man who shows up once a year just to give you all the things you wanted???? Sign me up for that! So you might be wondering why I’m talking about Christmas in October, but the thing is that if you are planning a children’s […]

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The Importance of Joy

home school vs. private school pros and cons

I have been focusing my Bible reading on joy this past month. See, I have every reason to have joy, but I also have just enough daily life aggravations to sometimes forget to experience joy. And that left me wondering, “People are always saying to choose joy. How do you do that? Is it a choice?” Sometimes it is a choice, and you can focus your mind in such a way, and pray, and be doing right things so that […]

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Why Cope When You Can Conquer?

I’ve been reading this book. It looks like this: Why Cope When You Can Conquer?  It’s an encouraging book. It asks an annoyingly high volume of questions. I never did enjoy answering questions. See, it’s a Bible study guide, but it’s not one of these where you have to watch a video or attend a class to go with it. You can totally just read the guide on your own. (But I did warn you about the questions.) Don’t worry. […]

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My New Year’s Resolution (Yes, I know what month it is.)

Did you make goals for 2016? Or “New Year’s Resolutions?” We’re over 3 months in now. How are you coming on those? I remember vividly saying something like, “I’d like to get rid of my hip pain. That’s my goal.” That was it. Even when I said it, I had mixed feelings about having such a simple, dull, and yet seemingly unachievable little goal. So I went to doctor appointment after doctor appointment. I surely took every blood test ever […]

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“My flesh also will rest in hope.” Psalm 16:9

This morning I struggled with my precious but incredibly clingy two-year-old. The problems of life that I cannot get off my mind swirled around in my brain. I found comfort in these promises from God’s Word. “Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust.”   Psalm 16:1 “My flesh also will rest in hope. For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption. You will show me […]

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