Splink 1: As you are cooking dinner, choose some kitchen items your kids might not recognize (potato masher; grapefruit knife; melon baller; strawberry huller; garlic press; apple corer; etc.) and play a game to see how many they can identify. To add to the mystery, put them under a dishcloth and uncover each item one…
On Sundays when I was growing up, it didn’t matter if we were facing imminent danger or in the throes of a natural disaster, we were going to church. Literally, I can’t remember not hearing my mom’s alarm clock go off every Sunday morning at 8:00am—because, of course, church was always preceded by a solid…
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After parenting for almost twenty years now, my husband and I were challenged to come up with a list of 5 things we would do all over again as it relates to raising kids. I’ve already shared a few things we are glad we did, like imagining the end, saying words that build, and…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on the Daily Mail. Family fun often means new activities and destinations but a new study suggests leisure time spent at home in familiar pastimes may be a better route to happiness. “That may be because when the brain is focused on processing new information, such as taking…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on the Daily Mail. Children raised by divorced parents are more likely than children whose parents are married to be non-religious as adults, according to a new study. With a rise in religiously unaffiliated Americans over the years, a survey suggests that family stability or…
People tell me all the time how much my two boys looks like. They are both blonde with blue eyes, but other than that, they couldn’t look more different—to me. Asher, my oldest, has my jawline and smile, but his father’s eyes and brow. Pace, my youngest, has my eyes and nose, his dad’s…
*The following is excerpted from an online article posted on The Boston Globe. Meghan Enwright had reached her limit. Exasperated by her young sons’ maddening new habit of flipping half-filled water bottles into the air in an effort to land them upright, the Marshfield mother pecked out a quick Facebook post voicing her displeasure….
Faith-based films continue to be an ever present genre in the movie making business. More so, there seems to be even more faith-based films being produced and released year after year with even longer theater runs, overall shelf life, and validity in ministry effectiveness. When you stop to think it over, it’s no wonder why…
Splink 1: Students began new lessons on the life of Moses and Israel’s deliverance from slavery. Drag out the baby pictures and talk about each child’s birth. (A few questions to jog your memory: How did you feel when they were born? How fast did you drive getting to the hospital? What…