Party Time and Taking Turns
The “me first” talk mamas hear and hear and hear can wear a mama out. You know how it goes: “He took my ______!” (Just fill in the blank.) “I want to sit in your lap!” “I asked first!” “It’s…
The “me first” talk mamas hear and hear and hear can wear a mama out. You know how it goes: “He took my ______!” (Just fill in the blank.) “I want to sit in your lap!” “I asked first!” “It’s…
When you ask a bunch of adults if they want to play Charades, you’ll likely receive smiles and enthusiasm from some folks and groans from others. Ray, our kids, and I would be among the smilers. We have played hours…
Ray and I took a vacation with our daughter Bethany and her family last week, including a couple of days at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana, plus some history sites (naturally). From start to finish, it was wonderful. My last ride…
We don’t really mean to be weird on purpose, but we do sometimes do things a bit backward from the way other people do them. One of those backward things we do is to take vacations at odd times of…
Here’s how it happened. As I was making my visuals for the 10 Reasons It’s Great to Be a Homeschool Mom in the Wintertime webinar last Thursday, I hurried into the library where Ray was working, laid my camera on the…
A few days ago in the early evening I was on my way back into the house after taking pictures of a sunset when I noticed some clover that was bright green after its afternoon shower. Clover reminds me of quiet summer days…