Foto Fridays Tiny Bottle, Huge Benefits: Are you familiar with Essential Oils? They are comprised of a liquid that is typically distilled from the leaves, stems, flowers, bark, or roots of a plant. I buy mine through Young Living. I’ll share briefly why I love the ones pictured. Orange &…
Thoughts for Thursdays Are you following Paul Tripp on Twitter yet? You should be. Why? Because of awesomeness like this: Now that is using the internet for the glory of God, moving Twitter and Facebook beyond the fluff of what you ate for breakfast and which sports team won.…
Words for Wednesdays My blog is called “Reaching Ahead” from the passage in Philippians 3:12-14 where we forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead. But what if our past won’t stay, well… past? What if it affects our present, and as a result, our future? Putting Your…
Teacher Tuesdays After finishing up her final math lesson for the summer, my 11 YO leaned back dramatically in her chair and sighed, “Mom, I just don’t know what I would have done without Times Tales!” Have you heard of Times Tales? It’s a pneumonic way of learning your upper…
Foto Fridays For Foto Friday this week, I’ll sum-up the week in pictures. First, we had VBS at our church this week, and it was a family event. Here’s the crew on Silly Hat Day. Second, we celebrated my parents’ anniversary and my mom’s birthday. What love birds. Third, I…
Thoughtful Thursdays For today, I’m going to share an excerpt from an essay I wrote for NANC certification. This part still gets me excited… When we have faith in God, we are choosing to not depend on ourselves for our salvation. As Grudem explains, we essentially say: “I give up! …
Words for Wednesdays When Madam Blueberry goes to Stuff Mart, the writers must have been thinking of my love for Super Target. So often, children’s books and movies seem to apply to me more than my kids. It happened again today. Keeping 56 first graders calm during check-out after a…