Faith, Home, & Family
We've been picking red raspberries, black raspberries and blackberries just about every day. We found this: in a black raspberry bush. There are three babies in this picture, and the two eggs have hatched since this picture was taken. Co cute! The Glads are blooming! Now, for the view from my front porch rocking … [Continue]
This week, after yet again having to remind my 17 year old son that he wasn't spending enough time on his schoolwork, I was thinking about what to do. Then an idea came to me: time cards! So I found Printable Time Cards.com with a lot of choices for free printables. You can also buy editable time cards if you want to personalize them. Today was … [Continue]
Hope Springs is the epitome of small-town life—a place filled with quiet streets where families have been friends for generations, a place where not a lot changes . . . until now. Janelle Evans hasn’t gone back to Hope Springs for family reunions since losing her husband. But when she arrives for Christmas and learns that her grandmother is … [Continue]
Aging and widowed Harriet Beamer insists she’s getting along fine with her dog Humphrey in Philadelphia … until she falls for the fourth time, injuring her ankle and causing her son and daughter-in-law to cry foul. Insisting Harriet move in with them in California, they make a bet that her ankle is broken and she foolishly promises to … [Continue]
As part of the Schoolhouse Review Crew, I received online access to IXL for my children. IXL is a practice environment that rewards hard work—after all, with dynamic, unlimited questions, guessing your way to success isn't exactly an option. Instead, we encourage students to learn from their mistakes, and move through new challenges … [Continue]
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book … [Continue]
I recently found out about Cultivation Generation and the new album, My Foundation, that was released today. My Foundation was recorded live at the Cultivation Generation conference. The mission of this conference is to connect students with a powerful worship experience that is rooted in bringing people together for the purpose of sending them … [Continue]
