For any of you out there in Arizona who are considering homeschooling, Arizona Families for Home Education (AFHE) is providing the opportunity for you to attend this years homeschool convention for FREE! That’s a savings of $55!!! We live in a wonderful state with so many educational options. I’m excited that parents of preschoolers can have […]
The Gift of the Spirit-Led Life
Today has been a crazy day. I’m in the thick of trying to pull a couple of big projects together including a geography game that is proving to be a lot more challenging than I originally thought it would be. That seems to be how most creative projects work out for me… It’s hard to […]
Quiet Sorting
Beads are amazing. I remembered that I had this big bag of them and pulled them out the other day to play a sorting game with my two year old. He had been trying to get up on the stools with the bigger boys, so I pulled him aside to do something special with him […]
Embracing the Chaos
My sister sent me this snippet from The Mother’s Almanac. It made me laugh and cry at the same time, especially since I had taken my boys to the park this morning and made up a game involving running laps across the field to burn energy. Although I thought chaos was just part and parcel […]
Pentecost
All of our preparations and activities this past week and a half culmintated in our Pentecost party. Sunday marked 50 days after we celebrated the Resurrection of Jesus. And 50 days after THAT day was when the Holy Spirit came, giving power and boldness. That was the day that the disciples boldly proclaimed the good news of […]
Ten Years
Well, I guess it’s official. We probably aren’t considered newlyweds anymore, right? Rich and I celebrated 10 years of marriage this last week. It’s been a whirlwind and I can’t believe how fast it’s flown by and how much has changed. Marriage is a gift. Rich is a gift. Sometimes I don’t think it is, […]