“Having a heart of sympathy for your children will mean, by necessity, choosing a less busy lifestyle. It will mean lowering your expectations about what can and must be accomplished in a day. If it means winning your child’s heart, though, the trade offs are well worth the results.” Sally Clarkson When […]
It comes every year … The infamous Fall Fair. We love it. The ol’ country fall fair, in which the Gauthier girls wrangle up every pet and animal they can to enter the fair competition, bake up green and white cupcakes and create […]
“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.” -David Stiers It may mean you have to share a bed, pass down clothes, fill up the milk jug even if you are not the one who emptied it, have a servant’s heart, braid each other’s hair and listen closely when actions speak louder than words […]
The black printer flipped out colorful print … kitchen scissors trimmed the edges and I slipped the tiny artwork into an old frame, painted pink, which had been sitting around in the basement for months. This home, this family of mine, the raising of children, the nurturing of a marriage, the calling of being […]
“I wouldn’t want to be you in a few years.” “Just wait till they’re all teenagers!!” “And you only have one bathroom?!” Such comments are quite familiar to our family now – raising five daughters must in some way induce some sort of bewilderment and often times, disdain, to many commenters. However, I must […]
