Category: books

3 New Children’s Books for Summer & A Giveaway!

4 kids, books, giveaways, grandparents, parenting, stay-at-home mom, summer
summer reading giveaway

This past month I had the pleasure of reading a few new children’s books that I think your kids will love this summer. ***When you purchase through links on my website, I do collect advertising fees from the Amazon.*** Best of all, these books each have a different character-building lesson in them. They are beautifully illustrated too. When you shop online, it is hard to know what exactly is in any book you have never read before. That can be […]

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Exciting Announcement– My Israel Book is Free for Two Days!

books, home school, homeschool, stay-at-home mom
tour Israel in pictures and stories

I am up to my neck in home school work at the moment. Two are reading contentedly. One just finished Dog Man and is choosing to whine rather than pick his next book to read. The other one is begrudgingly beginning Hunger Games. His teacher has outlawed many of the books that he would rather read. Since school here is only cancelled through April, we still have to follow the guidelines they gave us. Fun, fun, fun. But I wanted […]

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My New Book, Tour Israel in Pictures & Stories, with a Giveaway

Archaeology, books, travel
tour Israel in pictures and stories

Hurray! It is finished! I feel like everyone already knows this, but I forget that not everyone is a Facebook junkie like me. Many of you may have no idea. How could I have forgotten to ALSO let my blog readers know something that I am this excited about?? Have you ever done something so new and exciting to you that you almost don’t even know what to do next? I mean between the book publishing and the earth-shattering news […]

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7 Books for Middle Schoolers We Enjoyed this Year

4 kids, books, stay-at-home mom
7 books middle schoolers love

***When you order through Amazon ads on this page, I do collect advertising fees. All opinions are my own.*** Middle Schoolers Can Be Super Picky But then, aren’t most people picky about what they read? I will deliberate for 5 minutes, put a book down, pick up another, change my mind, go back to book A, put it down, and then finally decide on a different book altogether. The older I get the pickier I seem to be. When I […]

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My Attempt at Baking with Mary Berry

big family life, books, food, stay-at-home mom

***This side includes Amazon ads. We collect advertising fees when you purchase through these ads.*** Have any of you watched The Great British Baking Competition on Netflix? It may not sound like much, but it is addictive. Alan even watched it with me sometimes. I’ve seen every single episode of all the seasons, so we don’t watch it anymore, but I watched it around the clock last year. On the show, there are 2 judges. Well, really there’s 3. For […]

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The Job I Fell in Love with this Year

books, education, joy, love, stay-at-home mom

Yesterday was my volunteer day. That’s the one day per week where I basically go into work like most American adults. Ha! I put on my grown-up clothes–things like trousers instead of yoga pants–and I work for someone besides my family.

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My 4 Favorite Homemaking Hacks for 2018

being frugal, big family life, books, family, housekeeping, marriage
My 4 Favorite Homemaking Hacks for 2018

I love Christmas break. Time off from spelling tests, chauffeur duties, graded papers, packing lunches, and best of all I’m not desperately rushing everyone to not be late…..oh how I love time off. We always spend a few days at my parent’s house and a few days at Alan’s parents’ house, and it’s such a blessing to spend time with them and soak up the rest and good conversation. With people you see on a daily basis, it can be […]

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2 Must Read Character Building Fiction Books for Tweens

books, homeschool
2 Must Read Character Building Books for tweens

Today I have the honor of writing this article, 2 Must-Read Character Building Fiction Books for Tweens, over at LikeMindedMusings.com, as part of Lee Felix’s 30 Days of Tween Parenting Encouragement! For each day of May, Lee is featuring another blogging mom of tweens on her site to talk about this phase of parenting. There’s so much information out there for the years of parenting babies and toddlers, and then it feels like the older your kids get, the less […]

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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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The Bonhoeffer Book & That Famous Niemoller Quote

Bible, books, history

I loved what Bonhoeffer wrote in his Advent letter of 1938 to Confessing Church leaders. I love it because the fact is that good is not always winning. Sometimes evil is winning, but that doesn’t mean you should not do the right thing:

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