Tag: motherhood

A Parent Review of ABCmouse: Keeping Our Brains Working Through Summer

parenting, preschool, toddlers
Parent Review of ABCmouse

  Like most moms, I TRY to keep my children from letting all of their knowledge fall out over the summer. Any “book learnin’” my four boys accomplish over the summer is typically solely because I forced them to do it. Maybe your kids aren’t like mine, I don’t know, but my children never ASK me to do workbook pages and catch up on their reading logs. When I was a little girl, I LOVED doing workbooks, but that is […]

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The 15 Best Things About Having All Boys

parenting
The 15 Best Things About Having All Boys

This week I happened upon a super cute post by Janine Huldie titled The 8 Best Things About Having All Girls. I had to read it! I needed a sneak peek into what that world is like because, mamas, the view over here, in my house of many little men, is a whole lot different! Janine wrote a great article. You should totally go read it. Naturally, Janine’s list inspired me to type out my own best things about having […]

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Hobbies are the spice of life

parenting

I love hobbies, and I love seeing how each of my children have different hobbies that they enjoy. We do a lot of different things around here. Work pays the bills and can be very satisfying, but there’s something about a hobby that inspires people. Sometimes you are lucky enough to find a hobby that becomes your work, but even if you don’t, you still need a good hobby. Hobbies are the spice of life. We have a wide variety, […]

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The Story Traveler’s Bible: 5 Easy Ways We Teach Our Children About God

faith, family, giveaways, God, parenting

Our number one priority is that we set our children off on the right track spiritually. We aren’t training them to live to please just their parents, society, or a set of rules.  Once you’re an adult, those things all become mushy anyway. We’d rather they have a relationship with God. It’s not about religion; it’s about knowing how to pray, knowing why they believe, having faith, and making these choices on their own. It’s about feeling responsible to a […]

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Being Mom: My Most Important Job

family, parenting, poetry

This morning was a struggle. Everyday is a race, but this morning was extra nerve-wracking. The trouble started at 7:40. The two oldest wanted to leave by that time so they could “be there early”. The middle boy was still brushing his teeth, and the youngest was still eating a waffle. Somehow we managed to leave the house at 7:48. No idea how. There was a short award ceremony this morning for AR readers, so we did that. I love […]

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How We Got Banned From the Library & My Plan

4 kids, accomplishment, books, parenting
How We Got Banned From the Library

I love to study. Sometimes it baffles me when children in this house do not share my desire to pour over books and take notes. I love it. This is what I do. It’s what I have done my whole life. When JD, at 2 years old, would wake up in the morning, pull up a kitchen bar stool, and say, “Let’s study shapes, Mom!!” my heart would swell with pride. This is my boy. When Joshua memorized all the […]

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A Prayer for My Four Boys

4 kids, parenting, poetry, stay-at-home mom
a prayer for my children (poem)

Today I was walking around my backyard, feeling thankful for the Nerf bullets in the grass and the bare dirt spots on the lawn because they are signs that my babies still live here. They grow so fast, but for today they are still here with us, and I was feeling ever so thankful. This poem/prayer fairly burst right out of my heart, so I came inside and jotted it down. I hope you like it. All of my children […]

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

Bible verses, funny stories, parenting, spring break

***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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My Brilliant Plan for How to Plan

answered prayer, books, organizing, parenting, prayer

**This post does contain affiliate links, which means that when you purchase through links on this page, April collects advertising fees from Amazon.** Was I always a little flaky? I don’t know. For years, I could get away with being very loosy-goosy with my planning because I was a stay-at-home mom of preschoolers. We moved all the time too, so by the time people developed expectations of me, we were off and away to the next town. Over the years, […]

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Why I want to be just like my kindergartener when I grow up

attitude, blessings, Daniel

Ya’ll. This boy! It’s like he’s good at everything I want to be good at. He leaves me with my mouth hanging wide open all the time. That little Daniel amazes me at every turn. I want to be just like him! Today I picked him up at school, and his teacher told me she thought he was getting sick. I waved it off. He’s still getting over this cold they had. “Mom,” he said, while he waited on the […]

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