Have you ever wondered what it would be like if they did online reviews of churches in the same way they do of restaurants and shops? Scour the internet and you'll actually find a few, but reviews of this type tend to be emotionally or politically-charged rants more often than … [Read more...]
Taking New Year Inventory of Your Homeschool
There’s something about the New Year that makes you want to reevaluate your entire life: Your relationships. Your priorities. Your diet. Your checkbook. Your sock drawer. But what about your homeschool? While I realize January isn’t the start of the school year … [Read more...]
7 Things Every Mom Should Do More This Year
Whether you're a resolution-maker or not, most of us can look upon a new year and think of at least 100 things we would like to do more and do better in the year ahead of us. There are a few things I think every mom should do a little more in 2016. I need to do them, and I'm … [Read more...]
Why I Don’t Read My Bible Through Every Year
Sometimes there are posts I'm hesitant to write because I fear how they might be misconstrued. Believe me, it isn't hard to write something one way and have readers take it quite another. And never... I mean NEVER would I want to do anything to upset good, established devotional habits, or to … [Read more...]
Behind the Scenes in Bethlehem — A Christmas Message to You and Your Family
I wasn’t there to see the place for myself, of course, but I would guess the Christmas card portraits of Bethlehem on the night of Jesus’ birth are probably…well…questionably accurate. I mean, they always present such a perfect little Judean town: Clean. Quiet. Peaceful. Charmingly aglow … [Read more...]
A Dickens Christmas Dinner
"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that, while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." Recognize that? Probably not, because it's not one of the more commonly quoted passages from A … [Read more...]
Testimonies to the Birth of Christ: Witness Accounts from the Nativity Story {Free Printable Script}
"I should know what happened better than anyone. Why, Mary and I grew up together! We’ve been friends for as long as I can remember! And so of course I was one of the first to hear the whole story. Honestly, it’s been pretty scandalous. A young girl expecting a … [Read more...]
Create a Thanksgiving Tree
I sort of dropped the ball this year when it comes to great fall projects. We always do autumn crafts and art activities and we try to venture out for pumpkin-picking and other fall fun. But this autumn was packed with more weddings and funerals, travel and sickness, and overall BUSYNESS than … [Read more...]
7 Tips for Raising Kids to Reject the Christian Faith
Yeah, I'm a Christian and, yes, you read that title right. You see, aside from what the Bible tells us clearly, I can't offer great insight into what it takes to raise devoted, lifelong followers of Christ. I don't even have my own kids raised yet, so fool-proof advice from me on how to bring … [Read more...]
Ideas for the Space-Themed Party or VBS
Space never really interested me. I mean, I thought stars were pretty and all that, but I always viewed space as this vast black nothingness. And what's so interesting about nothingness? But then I began studying it, both in our homeschool and in preparation for a kids' event at … [Read more...]
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