Family days are priceless days. While you are rearing your children, every day is a family day. Be sure and make them memorable —joyfully memorable. My “little” brother was born in October of 1956. Before Steve’s arrival, Daddy, Mama, and…
One of the hard things that we mamas have to face is disappointment in the hearts of our children. When their closest friends move away, when they don’t get to play in the game—even when their balloons pop before they…
Our handyman Ron has been back at our house off and on for weeks. Day after day, he continues to restore our front porch to the way it looked in 1939 when Judge John Gore’s funeral was held on the…
Oops! Yesterday morning I realized that I didn’t explain the framed “Charles” above the calendar in this photo that I included in Long Days, Short Years. When I was a girl, I saw an embroidered fabric name patch like that…
Many years ago, Donna Ellenburg, veteran homeschooling mama and member of the Notgrass History team, heard a profound statement that is one of the best nuggets of mothering wisdom—and homeschooling wisdom—I have ever heard: The days are long, but the…
While Ray has been recuperating, our latest home project has continued outside on the front porch. Over the last 19 years, storm after storm has knocked first one column and then another off of our front porch. Now that I…
