Our Display Book
Our family is learning Proverbs 4:23. My friend Jen writes at Jen’s New Song and has decided to make scripture memorization a focus for her family this year and will be sharing her KJV printables on her blog as she…
Category Teaching Tots
Little Passports and a Brigadeiro Recipe
We signed up for Little Passports this past summer. I’d read good things about it. My children love to get mail and I was tired of Chirp magazine. Our first box contained a welcome letter from Sam and Sofia, the…
Review: A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman
We use Sonlight in our homeschool. Their educational approach to learning through books is a good fit for our family in this season. Something that I love about their books is that it’s not just the children who enjoy them,…
DIY Magnetic Map of the World
Last summer we bought a map for about $7 at Costco. It’s pretty big, it’s poster-like but lightly laminated if that makes sense. Wipeable, I guess you could say. I didn’t want to…well….tape it onto the wall like I…
Why Are Family Traditions Important?
Your Family Has Traditions Whether or not you set out to create them, your family has traditions. Some you have intentionally continued on, having had them passed down to you, some you may have purposely started with your family and…
Our Jesse Tree and Advent: Coming
What is a Jesse Tree? A Jesse Tree is a fun way to teach children about the events leading up to the amazing birth of Christ. It can become a visual reminder of how incredible God is, of what…
Acts of Kindness for Children, Joy and Kinder
I ate him while writing this. Yum! Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. But it can also be my least favorite time of year if I am not careful. It’s so easy to be swept up…
Your Choices Won’t Let Me
Photo Credit Sky Noir If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? ~Matthew 7:11 My pastor…
Raising Money for an Orphanage
In the spring Chloe asked about having a bake sale. Of course the summer whizzed past and we were into fall. She asked again, and we made the plans. Chloe (6) was going to handle the bake sale side of…
A Canadian Girl with An American Girl
{so not the best picture of John but ah, well! Pictures of the weekend Chloe and Chrissa met} Chloe has been saving her money in her bank account forever…or it seems that way anyway. We started giving her an allowance…