I love Spring. I love going on nature walks with my kiddies…even if it does take an hour to walk just a few meters down the road… 🙂 I love seeing the budding beauties around me–little blossoms sprouting from the ground and trees, they are everywhere now with our warmer weather. I cherish pointing them […]
Category: Joyful Parenting
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 […]
How to respond?
Brian’s heart was burdened today by the happenings in Syria…God has given him a continual burden for the direction of our country and also its role in international relations. He talked to me about it in the car today…and Lewis was in the back seat listening so intently…his little heart has been grappling with big […]
So much provision, so many blessings :-)
I haven’t written in some time! The kids have been sick the past two weeks, and Lewis is going into his 3rd week of sickness now…all with different sicknesses. My heart aches when my children are sick. It really breaks. After two weeks of pretty intense sicknesses, several trips to the doctor, and continued, new […]
Part of a Miracle.
As I lay my hands on my belly, waiting for that first kick…that first flutter, my mind strays to a place of awe…awe in what God is doing right now inside my body, awe in what He is allowing me to be a part of…a true miracle. I love being a part of that miracle. […]
An incredible little Spirit!!!
This little boy really amazes us. We are in awe at what God is doing in his heart. The Word is being poured into him through a variety of ways and he is soaking it up. This morning, as he woke up, he came running to me, as he does in the mornings, and we […]
The Fox Jumped Up One Winter’s Night :-)
Any of you familiar with this children’s story? So cute! As the papa fox goes to get the goose from the farm to feed his house full of little foxes, he makes his way past the shooting farmer and brings home the chow 🙂 My favorite part, the end…’and mama and papa serve up the […]
Love comes..then obedience.
A wonderful lesson I have learned…and will probably learn many times in the future! A lesson in loving my littles. I have been reading a children’s book several times to my kids and it dawned on me what God was trying to tell me in parenting lately. It was a book about all the things […]
Tinklepaugh School of Obedience!
This past weekend was incredible all around. Brian and I have been working HARD with the kiddies on obedience. We have felt the spiritual attack on our family…energy levels sky rocketing with the kids, obedience coming very hard for them…we prayed, God delivered, we were equipped with new ways to get all that energy out, […]
Hannah Banana :-)
I thought it was time for a little Hannah update 🙂 Sweet little Hannah has been really coming out of babyhood and learning so many new things…she walks around the house with her Minnie towel dragging behind her everywhere…and looks for Minnie Mouse everywhere she can find her. She is so tender and sweet and […]
Walking in Faith 