About Us

Welcome to Stories of Our Boys, a Christian site related to all things motherhood, moving, faith, and occasionally some more girly things.
I’m April, happy and usually tired mother of four boys, ages seven through fourteen. I have been a stay at home mom for fourteen years now, so this site gives me a little space to pour my heart out to whoever I can convince to read it. Ha! In 2015 storiesofourboys.com was awarded the Top 10 Military Wife Blogs as well as the Top 10 Influencers of the Year by Voiceboks.com.
I have a degree in psychology from the University of Alabama, but I would far rather right than go into the psychology field. We are a military family with eighteen years in, so we have lived all over the country and occasionally traveled abroad. I wrote a book you can find here where you can travel Israel right along with me.
My husband deployed twice to Iraq for year long tours of service and once to Afghanistan for six months. You will find plenty of military family related articles on my site. I wrote a little about deployment here and about a hundred different articles about moving with kids. Actually, you can find a whole series about our first deployment called The Real Army Wives.

 Mostly, I write stories you can relate to about the craziness that is raising four boys while moving all over the U.S. of A. as a military family.

These are a couple of my more recent articles about parenting through the pandemic:

15 Helpful Websites and Apps for Your Quarantine Home School

10 Ways to Make a Quarantine Birthday Fun

photo by Amber Townsend

If you’re looking for encouragement in your walk with God, start here. I love to talk about applying faith to our everyday lives.

Jerusalem in Pictures: Golgotha, Where Jesus was Crucified

10 Facts You Never Knew About the Early Church

Me Time, or God Time? Juice or Milk?

Do you ever wonder about what kind of archaeological evidence exists from the places and people of the Bible?

There are so many archaeological finds that help us affirm our faith and learn more about the way people lived long ago. If you are interested in ancient proofs of the Bible, here are a few posts you can find here on that:

How the Sumerian King List Relates to the Bible

How do we know the Bible is reliable?

Why Capernaum was Our Favorite Place to Visit in Israel

Oh, and I should mention that we love markers:

Yep.

I hope our stories will make you smile.  I don’t think there’s anything funnier than raising children!

I occasionally do sponsored posts or product reviews/giveaways. For more information on partnering with Stories of Our Boys, you can contact me at storiesofourboys@gmail.com.
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”                     2 Corinthians 4:18
I make no claim to have all the answers. I’m just here to share my own experiences, and help others along the way.   Keep in touch!  You can follow me on Facebook or Twitter.

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  • Body Ministry is a passion of mine. Encouraging others within the Body of Christ to use the gifts the Holy Spirit has given them to make the Body of Christ complete with Christ as the Head is a teaching not often expressed.

    With that in mind and because I follow your site and within the last several month have found inspiration, encouragement and/or instruction from your site, I am publishing the link to your site on my "Blogs Followed" page. You need do nothing in return, this is part of my ministry TO the Body of Christ. If however, you would rather not your link/site be associated with mine, please feel free to let me know and I will remove the link, no questions asked, no hurt feelings.

    In the meantime, my prayer for you and your ministry (service to others and the Lord) is that you will be continually blessed with insight, creativity and abundant blessings from the Holy Spirit as you continue in your ministry!!

    • Thank you so much, Roland! I think I did see this when you wrote it, like 9 months ago, and I just realized I forgot to respond. I'm honored, though. Thank you! I have enjoyed the great work that you do on your site.

  • Hello Stories ofour boys Editor,

    I hope you’re doing great!

    I’ve got few guest post topics that you may like to publish on your website, here:

    1. A Healthy Timetable For Your Teen boy: 5 Fun Activities!
    2. 7 Thanksgiving Gifts The Whole Family Can Enjoy
    3. 6 Creative Birthday Gift Ideas For Your Best Friend, Make Their Day Special!
    4. 7 Healthy Games That You Must Play Even If You Are Out Of Your Teens

    I am certain your audience would love reading about it.

    Would you like to have a look at it please?

    In the case, you’re not satisfied with the topics mentioned above, I can write on any other topic of your choice.

    Sincerely,
    Lara

  • Hey April,

    Sorry for the random email. My name's Sarah and I'm a freelance writer (well, trying to be!). Right now, I'm a regular contributor over at a site called Sleep Advisor.

    I'm writing to you because I'm new to the world of blogging and I was wondering if I could contribute an article on your site? The exposure on Stories of Our Boys would be amazing for my writing journey.

    I love writing articles that are sleep related and know I could come up with a few post ideas your readers would love.

    Let me know if you're interested and I'll send over some of my ideas :)

    What do you say? Either way, thanks for reading my email.

    - Sarah

  • Hey, I'm Emily from Personic, would you like a free Facebook Chatbot powered by your own post?

    Personic has developed a Wordpress plug-in that allows you to have your content distributed in Facebook Messenger, as a chatbot.

    There are 1.2bn people subscribed to Facebook Messenger, I'm sure loads of them would like (website's) content.

    To get your free plug-in for "Post to Chatbot" please go to https://wordpress.org/plugins/chatbot-for-facebook/#description

    I will love to hear your feedback.

    Warm Regards,
    Emily Martins

  • Hey April,

    I’m launching a product on Amazon.com next week that has been very successful in Canada and I hope to get some buzz going in the States. Along with my wife and daughter, I’ve created a children’s cookbook that gets kids in the kitchen younger than any cookbook out there. We do this by illustrating all the steps in our recipes and including colored measuring cups and spoons with the book. Now instead of a ½ cup of flour, or a ¼ cup of sugar, it’s an orange cup and a yellow cup.

    We have 25 kid-friendly recipes in the book and can start kids as young as two years old in the kitchen.

    If you think this would be a good fit with you and your readers, please let me know. I’d be happy to get you a complimentary copy and discuss the specifics of writing a post about it.

    Thanks,
    Brent Currie
    Cook By Colours

  • Hello!
    We are a music production company and we have written and produced a vast
    amount of children's songs, e.g. for THE SMURFS, PADDINGTON BEAR, RUPERT
    BEAR, BABAR, SPOT, TROLLS, DINOSAURS, etc. etc. I've attached some info on
    our company, Sunroof Music.
    A few weeks ago, we started our own YouTube channel, KIDZMIXFLIX
    (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOibz8_iVyxgcxi45ikvTew), as we wanted
    to share our first music videos to the world. We are now uploading
    DINOMIX, 12 clips about the history of the dinosaurs with in between each
    song a semi-educational explanation about the dinosaur in the next song.
    Also attached some DINOMIX info.
    Once DINOMIX is completely uploadied, we'll start releasing ANIMAL MIX,
    part 1, A JUNGLE PARTY, 13 episodes, with lots more to follow!
    I know that we need hundreds of thousands of subscribers (by the way, my
    congratulations to you for doing so incredibly well!!) and I understand
    that we have to look for sites, blogs, channels, mums, dads, grandparents
    and kids that are interested to share our content.
    I sincerely hope that you will let everybody know about KIDZMIXFLIX and
    that you all become subscribers to our channel. IT'S FREE!!
    Looking forward to hearing from you.
    With best wishes,
    SUNROOF Music
    Frans Erkelens
    P.S., I'm sure you'll understand that I need loads and loads of viewers and subscribers and as you can see that this channel is totally harmless and on the other hand educational and funny, I sincerely hope that you'll be able to help me! Thanks a lot in advance!!

  • Hello,
    Sorry I am contacting you through Facebook; I could not find the (Contact) on your blog
    I am a student at Concordia University, Montreal Canada and I am running a personal blog in Social Media course assignment. My blog is from my personal life; I will compare what I (the husband) do for the family and what the wife does
    I have realized that the wife’s work is much greater than the husband’s, and that her contributions are greatly underappreciated

    The challenge is that I found the problem, and I raised some questions like (Is this fair?) and (Can this situation be changed? And how?), but I have no clue as to how to answer them

    I saw your blog and I like it a lot and, since it is older than mine, I was wondering if you could accept my humble invitation to appear on my blog as a Guest Blogger. If you do, I can send you a few questions and you could send the answers in any form you like; text, audio, or video, and it will be my privilege to post them on my blog
    Alternatively, you may want to share your thoughts on this subject (like previous posts or articles you may already have) and I will gladly post them

    This help will be greatly appreciated

    Thank you and have a great day
    Amad Erman
    https://amadbloag.wordpress.com

    PS: if you are curious, my questions would be something like this:
    1- What is your point of view on this subject; compare the husband’s and wife’s roles in the home, especially the stay-at-home mom
    2- Do you believe that wife’s role is underappreciated?
    3- Do you believe this (general-consensus) or (popular belief) can be changed? If yes, how? And if not, is there anything that can be done?
    4- As you can see, I am only interested in your thoughts on this matter

  • Hey April, Love your blog! I grew up traveling with the military too, so I can relate to a ton of stuff! I wanted to drop by and leave you a note about how I save my memories in photobooks now. (This would have been great when I was growing up ... but smartphones weren't really a thing then!)

    Have you tried Chatbooks? They’re a photo book app for iPhone or Android (finally something for us android users!) that can pull pictures from your Instagram, Facebook, or camera roll. It’s only $8 a book and they give away your first book free. Also, they’re running a promo that if you refer 5 people, you’ll get 5 YEARS worth of books for free!

    If you’re interested, please use my referral link: http://invite.chatbooks.com/eloquencena8sn

  • April, it is a pleasure to meet you. I hope we can still be blogging pals despite our SEC rivalry. I'm an LSU Tiger! :D I love your About page, and I"ll be following your blog. May blessings abound!

    • Haha! Yeah, I noticed that LSU bit too, but since I am just now returning to the South after 7 years of living all over the country, I actually was happy to see a fellow SEC'er. ;)

  • Hi, April, and thanks for dropping by. Your boys are lovely! Pleased to meet you, Marina

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