As every Christian parent knows, the greatest goal of parenting is to raise your children so that they grow to love the Lord and develop their own relationship with Him. As much as I want to bring them into the kingdom of God on my coatstrings, I know that I can’t. All I can do…
Over the years that I have been a mama, my biggest parenting fear has been sibling rivalry. I don’t know how to handle it. Almost from the time that Bear Bear was born I was researching how to deal with the sibling rivalry that I knew was coming. The last thing that I wanted was…
Bear Bear is the first girl in a family full of boys. My in-laws had all boys, and their boys, up until this point, had all boys. Super Stuffy just added to that tradition. When I was pregnant with Bear Bear, we had decided that we wanted to know what sex the baby was, so…
Super Stuffy has the unique distinction of being born one day before my first wedding anniversary. Our first anniversary date was walking up and down the hospital halls with him. The day he was born was a wonderful miracle.
There are actually days when I want to quit homeschooling. I seriously consider sending my kids to school just so that I can have a day to myself. There are very few days that my kids don’t ask me for a day off from our schoolwork. Most of those days I would love to tell them…
I am very much a list person. I LOVE lists. In fact, there was a time when I actually made a list of chores that I needed to get done every day. Some people would think that it was like putting handcuffs on, but for me, it was freeing. I could choose or not to…
Rapture Jesus Calls Us Home Several years ago, I had a wonderful dream. It struck me as one of those dreams…
