Overflow of Harvest… Brian, Emma, and I had the stomach bug pretty bad last week…Brian and I worked together as a team to serve and pour out to our kids, but we both felt sick and weary. Lewis and Hannah, you see, were not sick! ….I have come to accept a few unchanging factors about […]
Category: Discipleship Training and FUN Ideas for Littles
Marathon Days.
There really is no other way to put it. My days feel like I am running a marathon…with my sweet little bed welcoming me at night. Things I am thankful for: I LOVE my Emma. Her two-toothed grin and sparkling blue eyes light up with joy. Her giggles bring unending joy. She brings peace to […]
Bring In, Build Up, Send Out!!!
This is the Fort Leavenworth Chapel Community motto and I have adopted it as my own for our family!!! This is my parenting and homeschooling goal—to BRING THEM IN…to draw our childrens’ hearts close to our hearts, with the Lord as our guide in discernment and love, TO BUILD THEM UP–in truth and wisdom–God’s Word, […]
Fisher of Men.
My not-so-little boy is giving me lots of sweet moments to share in praising God and learning about Him together….and moments of just pure awe at the boy God is growing him into. This has been my prayer lately…that we, as a family, would begin to read, worship, serve and pray together as a unit…a […]
My little instruments of refinement :-)
My kids have really been my instruments of refinement here so far…they are pressing me constantly into the unknown in parenting…and occasionally way past my limits. As I ran to the Lord the other day when they had completely exhausted my resources and mental energy…He told me 3 things: 1) Do not try to problem […]
Sweet comfort and joy to my soul…
Much of my time with Lewis so far has been spent doing this: However, truly, if you train them up in the way they should go, when they are old, they won’t depart from it. I really believe this promise in childrearing. If we allow ourselves to be a vessel of the Lord to teach God’s commands […]
Trip to the Top of Mount Blackie!
I wanted to take Lew Lew to the top of Mount Blackie the other day, because he has been asking to go again since his cousins left in April. He loves to hike and had fun hiking with daddy on their camping trip to Big Bear too. Daddy said Lewis was a trooper and hiked […]
