A bit weary after working too many long hours editing and writing, I decided I needed to give myself an extra day off. Most people have a go-to activity or two when they have a stretch of free time. They bake or go fishing. They shop or visit a museum. They set up model trains…
Chances are if you’re the parent of a school-aged child, that child is involved in something: Soccer. Basketball. Academic teams. Boy Scouts. Playing an instrument. Ballet. The list of possibilities is endless, and the time commitments are usually significant. How does one mother get four children to two activities each over the course of one week?…
Recently my youngest child has been waking in the middle of the night with various complaints of pain. Either a leg or foot hurts. His tearful sobs break my mama’s heart as he asks me to stop the pain. Unfortunately, he’s in the midst of a growth spurt, and his growth involves pain I can’t…
Homeschooling has been part of our life from the beginning of my boys’ school-age years. My oldest would now be in fifth grade, according to the public-school timeline. The first years felt easy. Reading to my boys and teaching them to read, count, and write brought me joy. I felt confident that I was the…
I am a gardener at heart. My mother taught me how to lovingly care for plants at a young age, and pruning and weeding became soothing to my soul as I became an adult. Every time I walk out my front door to check the mail or pull the trash can and recycling bin down…
“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” (Ephesians 2.10, NLT) When my husband and I were house hunting, we drove down a sleepy dead-end street in the town I had chosen out of the myriad of…