Month: April 2007
Potpourri
Keeping Score
None of us think we do it, but we do do it. We keep score. I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately as I’ve considered trials friends face, many letters I receive regarding problems in families, problems with extended family and . And no matter how many times I write it: “… it […]...
More Slices of Life
bad days
It seems that there is no good news these days… the decaying world demonstrates its bent to destruction and we see evidence of this throughout society. O, it’s not just the horrendous murders, the senseless killings, the hostile reactions to the decision to legally protect innocent unborn babies… and it’s not specifically the actions of […]...
Family
Homeschooling
It’s not too late.
I’m still mulling over and basking in the blessing of the time spent at the Christian Heritage conference this past weekend. I need to take time to review my notes to keep them fresh in my mind and to make application and incorporate the things I noted to apply in our own lives/home. As the […]...
Potpourri
home educate to live
Add the reason below to this site: 101 reasons to homeschool your children. I suppose space didn’t permit the reality: ten-million-and-one reasons to homeschool… through all the school years....
NewsDuJour
massacre in news today
Pray. In what already is the nation’s worst campus shooting, 32 people were killed and at least 15 were wounded in a rampage at Virginia Tech today. “...
Family
Homeschooling
blessings
There is immeasurable value in seizing great opportunities and making significant sacrifices on behalf of our families. These sacrifices might include, time, money, missing other good things, discomfort, inconvenience, etc., etc. But, through the years we, as a couple and as a family, have seen the greatest blessings come from great sacrifice of any one […]...
Family
Another note of celebrating this son
Samuel’s favourite hymn is: O Love that wilt not let me go. I smiled through tears just now as I listened to him play that hymn on the piano. He occasionally reads music, the rest of the time it just flows… and beautifully, I might add. Here are the words to that hymn. See Cyberhymnal […]...
Family
Celebrating the boy and the azalea bouquet
This is a great and marvelous day in history! A great day in His-story for our family… and it’s been a great day each year for the last 17 years. Even as I type this -17- s-e-v-e-n-t-e-e-n, I say: wow. Seventeen years -years!- we have been celebrating the birth, blessing and life of our Samuel—yep, […]...
Homemaking
Cooking for a large family
I thought I’d share a bit about cooking today for a large family. Oooops, wait a minute… you might just call it: cooking for a family with lots of chairs around the table. I’m getting a little sensitive to the term large family… you know… what with the need to be on another umpteenth-and-one diet […]...
Family
missing Kathryn
Now two thirds of the way through her stay in Uganda, East Africa, we are sooooo missing our precious girl. I’m not sure which gripped me more today… finding out that she’d just received a package that was carried into the country or calling her and getting cut off as she was, in mid sentence, […]...