Tag: parenting

On Becoming Preteen Wise: April’s Notes, Chapter 1

books, parenting, Preteen Wise

I had an unusually hard day at Pacific Christian Academy today with my handsome and intelligent tween, so I’m finally getting around to writing this post. I came across this book this summer. Alan’s parents were moving, and Nonna let me go through the books she was going to give away. She has the best books! When I came across this one I stopped in my tracks. “parenting your child from eight to twelve years,” the book reads, under the […]

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Home schooling Progress

baby milestones, home school, homeschool, Joshua

Ah……nothing like kicking back and resting with a three-year-old… So the first four weeks of home school are done. I’ve been trying to approach this as a puzzle. What can I do to fix the things that I see that need fixing in their education and in their character? Those are the two things I’m keeping them home to work on. I feel as though Joshua has made amazing progress. Seriously. Amazing. First, he started out way ahead of where […]

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Embracing Life

attitude, blessings, homeschool

Today I came down with some sort of sinus-y whoozy head problem. I kept feeling like I would faint, and the only cure was to lie down. I spent the afternoon, lying down, mad that I was lying down when I have so much to do. If dark clouds could really hang over your head when your glum, I would have had several. Then I read this blog post, from a blogger I’d never read before. Here’s the link: http://leftwithlouie.com/2014/09/08/what-oscar-said-rings-oh-so-true/ […]

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My goal: Being CALM

attitude, military life, moving, summer

As I’ve mentioned before, I have been a highly stressed and impatient version of myself lately. Last night I made a resolution for myself: Today I am going to be calm. I don’t care what happens. I am going to be calm, cool, and collected. I don’t care what the kids do. I will not freak out, panic, do the eyebrow thing, yell, or act irrationally. This is my goal for today. This morning, when I gathered the boys together […]

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Thoughts on Public Parenting

4 kids, Alan, attitude, Bible verses, big family life, brothers, family, military life

I am so dog tired I can barely keep my eyes open. The thing is that we are headed to a state park in the boonies this weekend, so I feel like if I don’t update the blog tonight, it will be Monday before I get another chance! Do you think I can actually go a whole weekend unplugged?? ha!  Of course I can! Just look at these four little diversions that I have. I’ll be lucky just to get […]

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About John Smith: “Him died. Dead. Dead. Dead”

books, Daniel, kid quotes, video, videos

These videos crack me up. It’s just so Daniel. He’s “reading” a book about John Smith, the best leader that the Jamestown settlement had. He kept focusing on the photo of John Smith, wounded in the Indian camp. Daniel read it as, “Him dead. Him died. meh meh meh meh meh….” Perhaps a lot of what I say to Daniel is simply translated as something from Charlie Brown’s teacher. To get the full story, you ‘gotta’ watch both movies! 😉 […]

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Breaking into the Home-School World

family, homeschool, military life, moving, parenting, prayer, school, stay-at-home mom

I just spent an hour typing out a blog post that I was unusually happy with. I thought my computer was plugged in and all was well. It wasn’t. I thought, “No big deal. It automatically saves…..” It didn’t. You will be happy to know that I did not panic. I felt sad, but I internalized all of my bad feelings rather than annoy anyone by “venting” my frustration. That’s right. You can look for an April explosion from this […]

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What I Really Needed to Know About Motherhood, I Learned from My Mom

grandparents, military life, parenting

I’m here visiting my parents and hanging out with my children. We’ve all been trying to catch up on our rest–my parents from their 2 weeks of 4 small grandchildren–and me from all the traveling. I am just so thankful for my parents. As many women are poring over parenting books, trying to figure out how to “be a good mom”, I haven’t bothered to do that much of that. Yes, I realize I’m far from perfect, but I don’t […]

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Road Trip to the University Of Alabama

military life, moving, vacation
University of Alabama campus tour

We are well into our very first cross country road trip tonight, currently staying in Amarillo. “Amarillo by Morning” is now stuck in my head. It’s 12 am central time, and we are pretty sleepy. Unfortunately, we put clothes in the hotel washing machine downstairs. That means we have another hour and fifteen minutes, at best, before we can go to bed. Now I wish we’d packed ourselves more clothing. Drat. It was a long day of driving, driving, and […]

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The 11th Park Tribe: The Archaeologists

friends, funny stories, Joshua, kid quotes, little boys, parenting

“Bring on the summer,” they say. This group of boys is so adorable, and this is just a few. There’s really a whole slew of them, ranging in age from 3 (Dan included) to 10. They gather at our local park after school, and yes, there are girls in the group as well. A few of the kids have recently begun migrating into the backyard of a friend of ours, that happens to have this hammock and a really cool […]

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