Finishing up the theme from yesterday, let me just dive right into the four final insights shared by Dr. Robert Lewis on Raising Spiritually Healthy Children..... #5 - Customize your parenting to each child. Our children are unique from each other and from us.  We are foolish if we think there's such a thing as "one size fits all" parenting. Not the case...Read More

Right off the bat, I should preface this post by saying that this post is all about raising children,  and not just that, but raising children who are spiritually healthy. In the sense of having a strong, secure, lasting faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. If this is something you have no interest in, click to your next blog for the day.  If...Read More

I remember so clearly taking swimming lessons as a kid.  Our local pool held lessons for two weeks every summer, and they were intense! You started out at Beginner, then next year you were an Intermediate, then Advanced, then Swimmer or something like that. I could be missing a step in there. I have two primary memories of those lessons: 1) That many...Read More

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I'd been to our Farm and in my spare time, did a little sewing. Using a pattern purchased from Blank Slate Patterns - the Beachy Boat Neck - I made some shirts for my kiddos.  For each of these shirts, I got the fabric from Girl Charlee, an online website that has fabulous knit choices. The...Read More

While recently reflecting about my childhood days spent at our old Farmhouse in Monticello, I was overwhelmed with memories and impressions about the place.  Too much to fit into a post on my children and Bible school, but thoughts that might stand on their own. Too much about the past lies forgotten and unspoken.  Including, perhaps, the Old Farmhouse.  Perched resolutely on the...Read More

The Next Generation sporting their newly made shirts! (my week's project) As soon as school lets out here in the South, all the local churches begin advertising for Vacation Bible Schools.  I don't know if this is strictly a Southern thing, but it seems like every time I pass a church, there's a banner in their lawn letting me know when their programs...Read More

My beloved Dorien. Cheeser extraordinaire. Holding the pose... Get UP, August! Flower shower. Proud Momma. A purposeful stride. The definition of precious. August, my sweet, my precious, my sensitive and perfect boy. Taking a pretend shower. (His own words) No upstairs a/c while the guys install it....so naptime takes place downstairs under the dining room table. Where there is nice, cold air. Brooklyn's...Read More