Tag: 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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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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The Book–I had an exciting break through!

books, family, letters to war, military life, writing, writing a book

I don’t know if you remember, but before I gave birth to JD, I was writing a book. Yes, that was over three years ago now. I haven’t touched it that whole time. I can’t write that particular book anymore. It’s not the book I want to write at this time. Each morning I open my inbox in hope of seeing a blog job offer that I will want to take on. This week I had opportunities to review a security […]

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Why Cope When You Can Conquer?

Bible, Bible verses, books

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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“She had come at last to the bend in the road.”–L.M. Montgomery

books, friends, military life, moving

Our church is cleaning out its library. Each Sunday the library-powers-that-be spread out about 50 books all over four tables, and anyone can come in and pick out which books they’d like to take home. They are all free. We have a large library of our own, here at April’s School for Little Men, so I have not been too tempted. Until today. What do you think I found today? FOUR books from the Anne of Green Gables series. Good […]

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Our Favorite Books from Homeschool Year 2

books, history, home school, homeschool, science

There is a time of day that is my absolute favorite. It’s the hour at the end of the day when I read to the big boys. The children love it too because it means spending time with Mom. Do you think Joshua and Caleb would ever, in a million billion years, have chosen to read the entire Little House on the Prairie series? This is a series of books that takes the time to describe the common things that […]

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