Making Catechism Part of Everyday Family Discipleship
The other day, I overheard my 7-year-old humming softly as she played, “What is our only hope in life and death? That we are not our own but belong to God, that we are not our own but belong to…
Bored and Busy Mama
Sweet and Simple Things of Life
Bored and Busy Mama
Sweet and Simple Things of Life
Category Family Culture
Raising My Children to be Heavenly Minded for Earthly Good
There is a saying in English that goes like this – “To be heavenly-minded is to be of no earthly good.” This saying assumes that the more we focus on heaven, the more we neglect the world, or that we…
Homeschool Curriculum Choices: Grade 4 and Grade 1
This is part 3 in my homeschooling series. (Click for part 1 and part 2) I’ve had many questions about the curriculum I chose for this academic year. This is not a post about the details of all the curriculum…
Dear Mama, Dream Small!
I sat at the edge of my daughters’ bed, patiently waiting for them to choose the songs they wanted me to sing before they drifted off to sleep. Despite my eyes growing heavy, I mustered the energy to sing to…
A Christ-Centered Christmas
The world does its best to get Christ out of Christmas. ‘Happy Holidays’ has replaced ‘Happy Christmas’. The spotlight is on Santa, not on Jesus Christ. We hear more about Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday discounts, than about the…
Morning Reflections
We are big proponents of family traditions. I grew up in a family where we did things together; and my husband and I always knew that when we had kids, we wanted to create our own fun family traditions. We…
Family Traditions
I love family traditions. They are those things we don’t have to do, but we choose to do them as a family unit and we choose to keep doing them over the years. Built over time and uniquely ours, they…
Our Favorite Way to Memorize Scripture
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and…
Do | Love | Walk : Our Family Verse
In the beginning of last year, we decided to pick out a “family verse”, a theme that would define what we valued the most. We wanted a verse that would be an anchor for our family, something that we could…
Benefits of Reading Aloud to Your Kids
Reading to me is as natural as breathing. I absolutely LOVE to read. I always have. My favorite childhood memories revolve around books and stories. I can remember being curled up in bed with my favorite book, unable to put…
