Strength and Beauty at Home: Helping women thrive at home while trying to manage their "homefront" well.
Even though this weekly series is focused on mostly good things that happen throughout the week, I want to start this week’s favorites by sharing how something that was not so good turned into to something beautiful, making it one of my favorite things. Anxiety was a real struggle this week. Yes, I struggle with […] Read more…
Picture this with me…a family sitting around the table together, the parents are doing their best to get their kids excited about learning Scripture by hiding God’s Word in their heart. Pretend you are a fly on the wall and you overhear this conversation… “Okay, we are going to practice Genesis 1:1. Are you ready? […] Read more…
I started this Friday series last week and it was so fun to recap the week and put into writing what my favorite things were during the week. I have been taking notes this week making sure I share all the good stuff with you. I don’t know about you, but if I don’t write […] Read more…
*I am not an affiliate for this company, nor am I receiving any compensation for this post.* Recently, I learned about an educational website called Education.com Our family does not use online education classes as a part of our homeschool curriculum, however, my children do enjoy educational online games and printouts for extra practice. This […] Read more…
Our weeks are filled with so much activity, sometimes so much, that the week slips through our hands before we can say “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”. When Friday arrives, all the hands go up, everyone breathes a long sigh of relief, and cheerfully welcomes a restful weekend. With our family’s jam-packed weeks, I sometimes forget to stop and […] Read more…
How could they have broken again?! What were you doing this time, Silas? We just got these glasses (sigh). Every time these words were uttered, my heart was crushed. The company (Googles N’ More) I had come to love, began to turn my confidence into doubt. I was in denial at one point because I […] Read more…
As I started planning our new school year, I decided I am going to start incorporating more audiobooks in our reading routine. Our family loves reading, especially read-a-louds, and I really enjoy the time with my kids and the memories that we create. As much as I love reading to my kids, I sometimes feel […] Read more…
For the last 11 years our family has had some sort of “morning time” together around the table where we read Scripture, pray, and worship together. It is a beautiful thing when it is a good morning. But I must confess, it has never been an easy task. The honest truth is, some seasons we […] Read more…
A few months ago I shared our story about our youngest son’s vision journey. (You can read that here.) We are still walking the road of vision loss and trying to correct his muscle issues. While we find ourselves here, we are trying to make the most of our situation by seeking out resources that […] Read more…
I am thrilled to have my friend, Sara, on the blog today as a guest blogger sharing tips about how to be a friend to those families with a child(ren) with special needs. Did you know that close to 90% of families who have children with special needs, do NOT attend church? Did you know […] Read more…