My absolute favorite dinner out

Going out to a sit-down restaurant with all 4 kids in tow gives me stress. I am constantly going, ARE WE REALLY THIS LOUD & OBNOXIOUS AT HOME?!? Wanna know my favorite dinner out? Well, I’ll tell ya. We strap ‘em all into the car, head on over to a drive thru –any drive thru [...]

Train up a child: 10 things

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately.  So often I’m ruled by fear in my parenting — fear that I’ll damage them beyond repair, fear that they’ll make horrible choices and land up [...]

How to know what to teach, or, what I want my children to know

How do you know what to teach? This has got to be one of the most common questions I get from people who find out we homeschool. It was also one of my biggest questions when we pulled our daughter out of public school in 2006.  I had no idea where to start. Curriculum choices [...]

Three

If not for your feet — which happen to be identical to your father’s — I would think you must have been switched at birth. You are the most confident, independent, I’m-not-hung-up-on-what-anybody-thinks individual of all of us. Oh the joy you bring. And oh to think you almost never were. You see, I was done [...]

Mundane things for God

As a brief recap of my recent brain swirls, I was talking about my struggle to know that my purpose is all around me, right now, in my “mundane” life, and that fulfilling one’s purpose doesn’t happen only when a book is published, a keynote speech is made or a Nobel Peace Prize is won. [...]

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