Gratituesday: Sounds of Home
more reasons to be grateful this Gratituesday!
We celebrated Christmas at our house today. Yes, on January 25. One month after our traditional Christmas celebration, a date that is total coincidence and in no way planned. You see, a couple of weeks before Christmas, the boys shopped the AWANA store night for gifts for one another. The good folks at our AWANA…
I LOVE OUR BOYS! I love spending time with them. I love listening to their imaginative play and just hearing them romp through the house. I love relaying their latest antics to their Grandma and Grandpa. But… our boys are high energy. They are high activity. They are high maintenance. And they are…
One of the things I love about our history curriculum, Tapestry of Grace (TOG), is the on-line support I receive from other moms using the curriculum in their homeschools. The TOG Yahoo Group, Loose Threads, has provided me with a wealth of information on using TOG, homeschooling, parenting, preparing meals, and so many other topics. …
Just over three years ago, I started a blog. A dear friend convinced me blogging would be a good outlet for my writing, a fun way to record our family’s comings and goings, and a new way to keep in touch with friends and family living far away. I picked a name for the blog,…
Day after day, I’d walk into my house and see the front room, the living room: small, drab, cluttered, and uninviting, and I’d sigh passing it by and heading for a seat at the kitchen table… until Thanksgiving weekend that is, when my Mom opened the gallon of paint I had purchased but hadn’t yet…
Last month, Ryan attended an A to Z Mystery themed birthday party. The party host presented each of the boys in attendance with one of the A to Z Mystery books (by Ron Roy) as a party favor. Ryan read the entire book that afternoon and begged to head to the library before it closed…