Boy Crafts
It is the dreaded moment of the week: the dropping-my-son-off-at-Sunday-school moment. All is going well until the teacher meets us at the door, bends to…
Children
The Serve Others Countdown to Christmas
Idea #1 – Prepare a meal together as a family and take it to a sick or elderly friend this week. Idea #2 – Encourage your…
Room for One More
“Mrs. DesCarpentrie, do you have room for one more?” It’s a question I have been asked several times from a Department of Children & Family…
Homeschool Holiday Volunteering!
What are you doing for your Christmas homeschool break? Shopping? Traveling? Opening your home to family and friends? Have you thought about adding “volunteering” to…
Prosthetics
“Excuse me, but your daughter’s foot fell off,” the Sunday school teacher leaned over the row of seats and whispered in my husband’s ear. Sometimes…
Surprising Lessons from Jury Duty: God Makes a Way to be a Mom
I must confess to a not-so-generous reaction when I was summoned for jury duty recently. Sadly, my thought process was not, “Oh, good, I have…
Looking Forward to the Long Car Ride … Amazingly Enough!
For the holidays every year we have very specific traditions in our family. For Thanksgiving we load up the kids into our minivan and drive…
Help! I Feel Like I’m Ruining My Kids.
“I’m the worst mother in the world. I think I’m ruining my kids,” I exclaimed as tears began to cloud my vision. Once again “Miz…
Got Room?
Do you have room for one more child? While we lived in a little three-bedroom house, we adopted three kids to add to the three…
How a Foster Mom Says ‘Goodbye’
We knew baby Riley would probably be reunited with his birth family, but that did not stop us from falling in love with him. We…