Seeing Life From the Highest Vantage Point
David Alexander arrived at 8:33 p.m. on March 1, 2012 weighing 7 pounds 5 ounces! I thought it would be fun to share his birth story and some pictures with you, and then offer a terrific giveaway of my two FAVORITE lullaby CDs. On Wednesday, February 22 I went to the Dr. for a [...]
First Grade Fall From Innocence This is a continuation of my testimony, and if you’d like, you can read the first part HERE. I left off with our move to a suburb of the Twin Cities when I was 7 years old. We left a neighborhood full of kids my own age…mostly girls…and moved into [...]
The purpose of this blog is to promote a Biblical worldview in all of life. It’s not a personal blog. However, I do want my posterity to be able to look through the things written here and find my heart. I used to think nobody but my children would ever be interested in reading anything [...]
Do your home school days EVER go as planned? Mine do. Once or twice a year. Today was not one of those days. Wanna see one of our typical days? Here we go… And that about does it. I didn’t take pictures of the three melt-downs, the head banging, [...]
I’ve always hated wasting time. The thought of sitting and accomplishing nothing sort of repulses me. On the one hand that seems to be a good thing. I tend to fill my moments and get a lot done each day. On the other hand, I struggle more with stopping to smell the roses and enjoy [...]
I’ve wrestled with how to do this post…should I tell the gory details and be a whiner? Should I make it sound glorious by highlighting the bright spots? I had a friend tell me how glorious her 9 day road trip was a few years ago…how bonding and relaxing. I think she was trying to [...]
A beautiful garden full of food for our family. An adorable nest of baby bunnies. These two things are not compatible with one another. How do we know this? Well…let’s just say that we don’t often get to eat the food our garden produces. But those cute little bunnies do. Last year when our bunny [...]
Well, okay…it was only for the week end. And Joe and the four older children weren’t raptured up to heaven…quite the contrary, they traveled north (as if we weren’t far enough north as it is…did you know it’s still winter here in Minnesota?) to cold, damp, Gooseberry Falls on a camping trip while I was [...]
This was one of the calmer family worship times. It might have been due to the camera…but whatever the reason, it was awfully nice. When it comes to family worship, the motto is: Persevere. Listening to the Bible while enjoying a built-in snack Try to enjoy the craziness along the way! The batteries eventually wear [...]
I must confess. I have a large family, BUT my kids do not sit quietly in a row looking perfect and beautiful. We are loud. All of us. Well…there is one boy in the middle who is kind of quiet…but for the most part we sing loud, we laugh loud, we yell loud, and everything [...]
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