Providential Writer's Block?

I have had such a hard time lately puting even two words coherently together in a post. I can't write anything. I feel like my brain is mush, my vocabulary has shrunk to about 300 words, and my train of thought has derailed. But I think I know why this is happening to me. God [...]

The Snake and the Storm Trooper

The kids again enjoyed having their faces painted during my piano lessons last week. Joely requested a snake. And Jaden asked for a Storm Trooper. When the face painter told him she didn't know how to do that, Jaden provided her with a Lego model. This is the result.

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13 Best-Loved Movies From My Childhood

Jeff and I have talked about introducing our kids to some of the movies we liked as kids, and with our Netflix subscription we've started doing just that. So I thought I'd share some of those memorable movies we're hoping to watch with our kids in the near future. Maybe they'll bring back some memories [...]

Important Notice For All Husbands

My Blue-Light-Special Baby

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Language Lessons with Dr. Seuss

At the beginning of the school year I wrote about how I make up my own first grade language lessons using a short sentence or two from a children's book that illustrates a particular language-related concept. For instance, if we want to study plurals, I might select a sentence(s) that has a singular and a [...]

Beautiful Feed History Study Guides

We switched to using Beautiful Feet guides for history earlier this year, and we have been so happy with it. If you're not familiar with how Beautiful Feet guides work, let me try to explain just a little bit. We're currently using the Ancient History study guide, which is broken up into three sections: Ancient [...]

That Mechanic's Just Not Normal

I took our Passat into the mechanic today to get a second opinion. We took our car to the dealership this last Monday to get the tires rotated, and the technician told us that we needed to get the drive belts replaced because they were cracked, and we also needed the rear pads and rotors [...]

My Daughter, the Fish

Thursdays have turned into face painting day for my kids. Today Joely requested a fish, something that our face painter (my piano student's mother) had never tried before. Here's how it turned out.

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