Taking Time for a Child
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…
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Long Days, Short Years
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…
Ideas Matter–For Good or Evil
I finally finished the 37-hour audiobook history of the world from the twenties to the nineties. I don’t recommend it. Whew! I am tired of learning about totalitarian regimes killing millions of people over and over again. As a history…
You don’t have to be like anyone else.
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…
Roll the Gospel Chariot Along
My husband Ray and I were grateful to be able to be at church yesterday morning for the first time since his surgery. How precious to hear his voice singing beside me. Before the service, I followed Ray to 99-year-old…
God Chose You
As you prepare for this coming school year, please remember how blessed your children are to have you as their mama. You are part of the Master Plan of the Creator of the Universe. But our God is in the…