My family laughs at serving sizes. My kids laugh. My husband laughs. I hear “You call THAT a serving size?!” all the time! I am the only one in my family that cares about serving sizes. Well, of the family members that still live at home. A couple of my adult kids…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what I want to do when I am finished homeschooling my children. Our youngest is 16, with a couple of years of high school left to complete. Just having one student is so different from homeschooling all 6. I have a lot of time on my hands now….
We left the hills of Kentucky this past weekend to travel to the big city of Cincinnati for a family wedding. Our niece, on my husbands side, got married. We used to live outside Cincinnati, but we haven’t been back in several years. The wedding ceremony was at an old church downtown. …
Both mine and my husband’s families all celebrated halloween when we were growing up. So it just seemed natural to us to do the same with our children. We started out celebrating halloween with the kids when our oldest was 4 months old. We dressed them up in non scary costumes, and went…
Fall is now officially here and I am reflecting back over our summer. It’s been one crazy summer! My mother moved in with us! After being in 3 different hospitals for a total of 4 months, my mother was finally able to come home. She chose to move in with…
I went to the dentist with my husband the other day. They put us in a little room, took xrays, then left us. In a tiny room. For an hour. Can you say bored? Oh, to add to the fun, there was no chair for me to sit on! So there I was….
Give Kids The World, a nonprofit organization that provides children with life-threatening illnesses and their families week long, fantasy vacations, celebrated its 30th anniversary in March, marking three decades of providing the happiness that inspires hope. My family stayed at Give Kids the World in 2002 on my son’s wish trip. I wanted to…