I began Daily Encouragement for Homeschooling Mothers to encourage you. From the beginning, you have encouraged me in return. That has been especially true since I sent out my prayer request yesterday for our grandson. Each time one of you…
Precious friends, Ray and I are on our way to St. Louis. Our grandson Henry, son of our son John and his wife Audra, has been sick since Sunday. His symptoms have been mild and he has improved greatly. However,…
When I was a girl, I often heard comedians on television. Television was more wholesome then, but we still heard things we shouldn’t and there were certainly better ways to use our time. A common joke theme was mothers-in-law. Those…
I stand in awe of the homeschooling pioneers who risked having their children taken away because they made the radical decision to homeschool. Though we were not pioneers, we began homeschooling in 1990 and have therefore lived long enough to…
The greatest teacher Who ever lived is Jesus Christ. He is the best example of how to teach our children. In Luke 6:12-13, we read about a night when Jesus went to a mountain and spent the whole night praying…
A nearby department store had a big sale last Saturday. I like to shop there sometimes because they have petites. (Remember that in clothing, petite does not mean tiny; it just means short! My arms and waist are so short…
This flag flies on the front porch of our good friends Tom and Jo Carr, who recently moved back to Tom’s hometown of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, after he retired. Tom serves on the library board; Jo serves in the hospital…
We got our first telephone when we moved into town when I was four years old. It was a black table model with a rotary dial. We rented it from the telephone company, just like everybody else. If we called…
“Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” (1 Peter 5:8, NASB). I certainly wish he didn’t prowl around wanting our children, but he does. I…
