For almost three years our family traveled all over the country visiting churches and representing the mission agency my husband works with. That meant many things…seeing much of God’s amazing creations in nature, meeting wonderful people, experiencing new things and staying at A LOT of hotels. Thankfully, we like staying at hotels and our favorite…
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Continue ReadingFor little girls, there’s nothing quite like a “tea party”. I had plenty of them with my dolls and pretend friends. My daughters did as well. Sometimes we would even have “real” tea parties with Grandma at her house. She collected beautiful tea cups and would let the girls choose which one they would drink…
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Continue ReadingCookies for Breakfast?! YEAH! I have always loved breakfast, even if it was early. My grandmother was “old school”, she made my grandfather a BIG breakfast everyday and since that’s where I spend a lot of time in my preschool years, I grew up thinking that’s what everybody did. My husband’s mom made him breakfast too,…
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Continue ReadingIt has always been important for us to eat our meals together … as a family … at the table. On weekday mornings my husband leaves for work about 8:00 am so we meet for breakfast at 7:30 am. We eat, then have our family devotions. Because some of us are not “morning” people (that’s…
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Continue ReadingWell, the first day of school has arrived. We home school so I get to decide when we start. Sometimes we look forward to that day and honestly, sometimes we don’t. This year we are starting earlier than usual. The reason: so we can take off sooner! Actually, we are already planning two breaks.…