One of the best thing a mom can do for herself and her family is to exercise. It’s a stress reducer, a health maximizer, and an important part of taking care of me! With a gym membership not in the budget, what’s a mom to do to find no cost...
Mark and I have been working with our teenage sons this summer on the concept of “freedoms.” We recently sat down with the boys and had a discussion about how we use our time. We discussed three categories that our activities fall into:Things...
Help! Everyone Wants A Piece of Me!“…a ruler came and knelt before [Jesus] and said, ‘My daughter has just died. But come and put your hand on her, and she will live.’ Jesus got up and went with him, and so did his disciples. Just then a woman who had been subject to...
Dear Anne,You have now entered into a new season of life. Motherhood will be the most important job you’ll ever have. There are so many things that I long to share with you: lessons your dad and I learned the hard way, strategies we learned from everyday...
The days of summer are upon us. For those of us with school-age children it means change. I always look forward to that time with both excitement and uncertainty. Just how will we fill our hours and our days? Several years ago I...
I love when the warm weather sets in because I add another room to my house: my front porch! Mark and I love to sit out on the porch and read, talk, or visit with friends. Today I’m sharing an excerpt from My Hearts at Home about the value of...
After adopting Kolya at the age of 9, we soon realized this young man thrived with a hammer in his hand. He loved anything to do with creating, fixing, or building.We also discovered several years ago this same boy loves to fish. Everytime we’d go to...
Calling all those who have lived through the newborn stage! What words of wisdom can you share with a new mom and dad who’s little one is so good during the day but has a crying spell of several hours somewhere around midnight each night? Little Rilyn...
A couple of weeks ago I sat in a concert watching my 23-year-old son’s band make beautiful music. I leaned over to the mom sitting next to me (whose son was playing guitar in the band) and said, “Wow, this makes all those music lessons worth it,...
Rilyn Grace McClane7 lbs. 6 ozApril 26, 20101:40pmMother and baby are doing great!
As I shared in Tuesday’s post, we’ve homeschooled off and on over the years. Right now both of my teenagers are attending public school so I’m not on official homeschooling mom. But I still take the education of my kids very...
I’m often asked by other moms about our school choices with our kids. There’s no easy answer to that question because we’ve done it all: homeschool, public school, private school and even lab school (here in our community Illinois State...
Money Management for Kidsby Jill SavageEvery child has their own financial personality. Three of our children are savers. Two are spenders. Of course, they take after both my husband and me, who sit at opposite ends of the spending/saving spectrum ourselves.Regardless...
TURN SIBLING RIVALRY INTO SIBLING REVELRYby Jill Savageadapted from My Hearts at HomeDo you ever feel like your house feels more like a boxing arena than a home? Do you tire of the arguing and fighting that happens between your children? If so you may need...
