After 40 years of marriage, we still need Date Night because every relationship needs to be nurtured and cared for.
You Can’t Be Sad When You’re Holding a Cupcake
Back in the spring of 2011, my teenage daughter and I were brainstorming ideas for raising money to pay for a summer missions trip to Uganda. I’ve always enjoyed baking, so I suggested we try a cupcake fundraiser. We decided to spread the word through social media to local friends, church members, neighbors, etc that …
Managing Valentine’s Day Expectations
When I list adjectives that describe my hubby and me, there are a number of opposites. While I tend to be creative, artistic, and optimistic, he is much more practical, logical, and realistic. I am a teacher, baker, and artist. He is an engineer, coach, and analyst. I lean toward the romantic but he is …
Holding on to Good Health
There is a very contagious virus that has swept through the land and across the globe over the last 8 months or so. We are living through an unprecedented type of response aimed at slowing the transmission rate – or so we are told. Wear a mask. Social distance. Stay home. Do not visit your …
Life After Homeschooling – Being a Mentor
Even though my children are grown, I still love homeschooling and homeschooling moms! I homeschooled for 23 years, and have been in support group leadership almost that long as well. Since my youngest graduated from our homeschool 3 years ago, I have remained active in the support group I founded and also in the wider …
When You Reach the End of the Journey
There are many emotions surrounding the end of a journey. Satisfaction. Relief. Exhaustion. Nostalgia. We took a once-in-a-lifetime family trip back in 2002 and traveled the country for 6 weeks with our five kids, pulling a pop-up camper behind our conversion van and visiting national parks and other sites across the western states. There was …
Who Am I Now?
Mother. Homeschooler. Teacher. Guidance Counselor. Chauffeur. Cook. Health Care Consultant. Social Coordinator. When the things that have defined you for so long come to an end, who are you now? I have five children and there are thirteen years between my oldest child and my youngest. The first three babies came within a 5 year …