Mom Tip Monday – Reading Scripture

A new series for July – Mom Tip Monday. Each week I’d like to share some tips I’ve found after over seven years of parenting. I know I don’t have all the answers – and I invite you to join me in sharing YOUR best tip on the topic for the week. This week is: Reading Scripture with Your Children One of my mom’s many words of advice to me as we began our homeschooling journey was to not neglect…

Mom Tip Monday – Finding a Routine

A new series for July – Mom Tip Monday. Each week I’d like to share some tips I’ve found after over seven years of parenting. I know I don’t have all the answers – and I invite you to join me in sharing YOUR best tip on the topic for the week. This week is: Routines How do we find one? How do we keep one? What works best? Everyone has an opinion concerning routines – but it really just depends. When formulating a…

Mom Tip Monday – Taking a Break

  A new series for July – Mom Tip Monday. Each week I’d like to share some tips I’ve found after over seven years of parenting. I know I don’t have all the answers – and I invite you to join me in sharing YOUR best tip on the topic for the week. This week is: Finding a Break I walked out of the door and sat in my car.  I took a deep breath.  It is time for just…

My Writing Heart and Longing for Paris

Can I share a secret? It may be that you already know it….. I have always loved writing. As a little girl reading was a favorite pastime. I read through almost the entire children’s section in the library during my girlhood.  After reading Anne Frank’s diary, I longed to put words together myself. I began with the spiral notebooks and filled up pages (and pages) of just my adolescent thoughts. I loved it. I kept doing it. Year after year, after year.  Literature…