I try to keep some kind of flowers on our table.  I started this tradition, when my health required me to live away from home.  Each week, I would venture out to Trader Joes and I fell in love with their flower selection - thus a tradition was born to add beauty during a hard time.  I've now be…

The Mother's heart is the Child's Schoolroom - Henry Ward Beecher We do not school just in a room . . . we truly homeschool everywhere in our home. . . . sometimes it's curled up together reading a book  . . . sometimes it's tasting new things even when they are "yucky!&…

The Mother's heart is the Child's Schoolroom - Henry Ward Beecher When asked " why " we homeschool, a flood of reasons come to heart and they have been shaped in time through a conviction and the experience of graduating 3 of our 5 children.  It's a tugging on our  heart…

Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to Him for the lives of your children. -Lamentations 2:19 New beginnings to familiar rhythms.   A blank slate, but with the remaining remnants of erased chalk dust.  I begin here now, with what has been placed heavily o…