So you want to read aloud to your kids more… You understand how important that can be… Where, oh where do you start with growing those precious times of reading aloud to your kids? Here are 6 ways to cultivate your read-aloud times! 1. Keep it Short, Do it Regularly The key to making a habit […]
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Letting Go of Picture Perfect
I called them in, these boys of mine. We were studying the tabernacle at the time. Visions of this exquisite, picture-perfect, to-scale model of the tabernacle were floating around in my head like the one I created during my junior high years with my sisters. That one that was put on display at church. Yes, […]
Hands-on Discipleship Moments: Ideas for Celebrating the Ascension
” Celebrating Christmas gives us faith; it affirms that our beliefs have roots in the historical fact of the incarnation. Celebrating Easter gives us assurance; it affirms that Christ wiped away our sin by his great sacrifice and triumphed over death. Celebrating the Ascension gives us hope and points us toward transformation; it affirms that […]
Expectations are my nemesis, but I dealt them a blow.
Expectations… I have a lot of them, especially at the start of new seasons. I’m a dreamer, a visionary. In my head I play out how life is going to go and then I plan accordingly. It works, sometimes. But usually I’m left a little frustrated and occasionally feeling defeated. There are beautiful God ordained […]
5 Great “Faith-Building” Chapter Book Series for Boys
Books make such wonderful gifts. But for active boys, the element of adventure is paramount. These books are certainly not for boys only, but for any child that loves adventure! Finding good books that inspire our children is high on my priority list. I can remember the countless hours I spent reading adventure books as […]
6 Beautiful Picture Books that I’d Love to Own!
As Greta is getting older, we’ve enjoyed reading more and more picture books. As I wrap up this series on 31 Days that Inspire Learning (only 2 more to go!), I thought I’d share 6 books that we’ve read several times to the boys that I found at either the library or someone else’s home, that […]