Do you know how cows came to America? Do you know how long an eagle can live? Do you know how much a moose weighs? From the Made By God series is a new book called Animals All Around that helps you answer all of your children's curious questions including these above. Animals All Around is a 4-in-1 book that covers Forest Friends; ...
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Copyright Carefulness: Seven Points to Remember Before Sharing
© As a website and blog owner, I have this overlaying fear that I will accidentally break copyright. Unintentionally, I will take what someone wrote and not give them credit. Even in high school and college, I worried about this while writing papers. Some of you are nodding your head because you experienced this ...
Helping Your Daughter Understand Her Body: The Ultimate Girls’ Body Book
As Bubs and Sweet Pea are knocking on the doorstep of adolescents, my husband and I have been talking more and more about having "the" talk with each of them. Actually, not just one talk but several talks. While this may be uncomfortable we want the information to come from us and not from their peers or ...
Widsom Learned from Raising Little Man: Getting a Diagnosis
credit Although training Little Man immediate obedience seems like a huge feat, it is one - uno - one step toward finishing the parenting marathon. But after feeling drug backward for so long, I celebrated like no one else. I emailed and called several people because for once I felt encouragement with our third ...
Wisdom Learning from Raising Little Man: Teaching a Child Self-Control
About a year and a half ago we created a mental list of six things we wanted to try to possibly help Little Man. We heard stories of kiddos doing "x" and how it tremendously helped the child. For the last eight months we have been "trying" the final option on our list: Tae Kwon Do (after the first five failed to provide the ...
New Series: Impressing Jesus on Them
credit Remember these sentences from my blog post last week? Her slumped shoulders and darkened eyes said it all. I have seen it so many times. At church... at restaurants... at the park... at Walmart. I have seen the same image in the mirror before. Her Facebook posts and Tweets bleed of pain and ...
Learn Shapes through Creating a Shape Family
The idea of creating a Shape Family came through a string of comments started by Dina on the ABC Jesus Loves Me Facebook Group page. I tweaked the idea and created these guys. I think they are super cute and my kids enjoyed them as well. I also love how easy they are to make. While all four of the ...
Fun Books: Library Mouse
Over Christmas break, the three littles and I went to the library while Bubs was at therapy. Sweet Pea (1st Grade) had several books she wanted to find for us to read as they were favorites of her's from school. She specifically wanted to find a book about a mouse who lives in a library. It didn't take much ...
What’s on Your Notecard?
credit Last week I shared one of two areas where God is asking me to let Him perform heart surgery. The post was raw and ugly but I pray that it encouraged you to take a look at some dark crevices in your own life. Issue number two came as a surprise to me. At first I denied it. But within a few ...
Recipe: Homemade Granola
Every other week I mix up a huge batch (4x the recipe below) of homemade granola. We eat it as cereal, on yogurt and anything else that it will enhance for the moment. Daddy and I eat it every morning. It sticks with you and is an excellent source of good stuff! I have played with the recipe for several years to get a good ...