I have been kind of incognito for a while. Life has changed in the last year, drastically. For one, we had a baby. Well, not me. But, our family. In other words, we are adopting again. I will share more in the future. It is amazing how this little one came to be in our […]
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It is well with my soul…
It is well with my soul. A 5th grade memory. Learning to “laugh at myself.”

Emotional Wreck Week
For whatever reason, what we thought was going to be, isn’t.
We are crushed, but not broken. Hurt but not dismayed.
What we held n our hands and got to love on for very few short hours was amazing for this side of Heaven.

Great NEWS! After a year of destruction – we have a blessing!
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah […]

It has been a while…
Ecclesiates 3: 1-8 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:2 a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;a time to break down, and a time to build up;4 a time […]
Our Homeschooling
Homemade Egyptian School Projects–The Mummy
Homemade Egyptian School Projects–The Mummy My kids loved learning about mummies. (Me – not so much.) They loved to share with anyone who would listen how the priests got the brain out of the head. Let me just say, be careful when you blow your nose. Ugh. I don’t like the thought of any of […]
Homeschool Conference in Dallas
Do you homeschool? Or do you know someone who does? There is a brand new conference coming to Dallas, Texas next month, June 26 – 28th. I love homeschool conferences. Even when I didn’t homeschool, I went and they were just so uplifting. I refer them as “encouragement booster shots” for homeschool parents. Many times […]
Family Rules that Stay on the Fridge and in Our Hearts
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Works-For-Me Wednesday Kitchen Organization Edition It doesn’t really have to do with kitchen organization except that I wouldn’t have a kitchen without these posted up on my fridge and it makes my life totally organized in every other way. So, I guess it is kitchen organization in a round sort of way. I’m a […]

Organizing a family: Chore Charts
Organizing 5 kids [wpsr_pinterest] We have been asked two questions, numerous times by people who learn we have five children. “Don’t you have a t.v.?” How do you manage all those kids? Here are our answers. For the first few years of our marriage, we did NOT have a television. In fact, our first television […]









