What I’ve truly learned over the past year of homeschooling …. Family devotions {and personal} need to start the day hand in hand with your bowl of steaming oatmeal and hot coffee… children learn by example … … fellowship is so much sweeter with like minded friends … …a picnic […]
“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder; The Long Winter one of our many crochet projects … […]
Affirming words …are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. — Gary Smalley Despite the threat of a winter storm (yes, in April?!), I packed up my daughters, buttoned up jackets, tied on bonnets […]
… 11 delightful months of complete and utter love for our fifth daughter. Children truly are a blessing … I see this promise in the Bible and it brings my heart such joy to see it written. Leia Hyacinth had blessed our little family with her smiles, funky hair, her sweet nature, her happiness […]
It was the year we had to pack up all our belongings and move nearly 4,500 km. from one side of this wide country to another. The year my family traveled in rusty green Oldsmobile in the sweaty, muggy days of summer, with no air conditioning, windows rolled down and hair flying in the wind… […]
