What do you do in the weeks leading up to Christmas? You know, besides school parties, work parties, school concerts, church programs, family get-togethers, shopping, wrapping, decorating, cooking, cleaning, more wrapping, finding all the boots, and sweating.What do you do to quiet down as a family and recognize why we celebrate Christmas? If you do not have a quiet tradition for December, I recommend a Shepherd’s Dinner!
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Books (and a printable) About God’s Creepiest Creation: BUGS
I love living where we do in the woods, but in the summer I find myself asking almost every day, “Why did God make mosquitoes?”
I do not have an answer for you, but here are some great books about insects from a picky mom. [Read more…] about Books (and a printable) About God’s Creepiest Creation: BUGS
The BEST Chapter Book and Activity for Car-Loving Preschoolers
Do you have a car lover in your life? My kids love everything with wheels! And I do mean EVERYTHING. [Read more…] about The BEST Chapter Book and Activity for Car-Loving Preschoolers
Guiding Your Children Through Lent
There is a dark pink notecard stuck to my fridge. It is wedged between baby announcements for kids now in preschool and old ticket stubs from when my husband and I actually left the house.
It has something very special written on it:
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. [Read more…] about Guiding Your Children Through Lent
Getting the Whole Family to Engage With a Book, Without Reading It
My husband is an awesome dad. He really is, I’m not just saying that because I forgot Father’s Day this year.
He is a packaging salesman. I had no idea that packaging was so important until he started working for a packaging company! I used to just recycle boxes and containers…now I’m texting him pictures of eye shadow pallets with notes like, “Look at this foil!”
He loves his job. Since he loves his job, I love his job.
The only thing I don’t really like about it is that he travels out of state for a few nights every week. It’s hard to read aloud a book as a family when a member of our family is missing a significant percent of the time! [Read more…] about Getting the Whole Family to Engage With a Book, Without Reading It