We pulled a plastic case from the fireplace mantle, our special home for three Monarch butterfly eggs we’d received from a friend. The pencil-tip sized eggs stuck to each […]
A Liturgy for When the House Feels Too Full of Children
O God who creates order from chaos,help me now. O Jesus who gathered into Your armsall the children You could hold,draw me close. O Spirit who makes us like childrenso […]
Cinnamon Rolls and Persian Scrolls: Studying the Bible with Your Tween
“What kind of robes are we talking?” My 9-year-old’s eyes are wide and earnest as she looks up from her cinnamon roll to ask the question. We’ve found a table […]
An Eye for Wonder: Prepare your Family to be Wowed when Traveling
In 2017, we planned a trip to Rocky Mountain National. Park. In the weeks leading up to the trip I sought to instill in the kids a focused, mountains-are-amazing-and-we-can’t-wait-to-see-them mindset. […]
Choose Your Own Adventure: Learning to Write
My oldest daughter hated writing until she was nine years old. She picked up Deborah Hopkinson’s picture book A Boy Called Dickens because she recognized the imaginative illustrations of John […]
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