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The day God gave me an elephant.
Thinking again about Africa and the mission trip I took in 2009 to Botswana and South Africa with a group from my church. …………………………………. I never would have expected to go to Africa. The trip, the people — the whole experience — was a gift. It’s a long way to Africa, and we didn’t know…
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Our Week: Interest-Led Nature Study and More!
LAST WEEK: We finished up Kathryn’s semester of enrichment classes, finally came to the end of the book Freckles (which we loooooved!), and Kathryn and I served at a soup kitchen! I’ve looked far and wide for a ministry opportunity where kids were allowed to serve, and this one dropped right in my lap. Neither…
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Learning with MawMaw & Papa
These photos are from back in 2008, when Kathryn was just 7 years old. As homeschoolers, we’ve all heard it… what about socialization? I’ve thought about this often over the years, and there is one specific day that stands out in my memory: a day we spent with with Ken’s grandparents, who live about two…
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Nature Study: Crows
I love it when a nature study comes to us, rather than when we have to go looking for it. (Mostly because I have slacked big-time this year in planning for studies!) We came home one day last week to find this garden snake in our driveway, being attacked by crows. We actually like snakes…
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Additional Adoption Resources
Have I overwhelmed you with information over the past two weeks? I’ve included a link list near the end of this post with all the posts in my series, so you can catch up if you missed anything, or to come back and re-read if you want to digest some of the info before moving…
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Biggest Hurdles in Adoption
I am an enthusiastic adoption advocate, but as I’ve said before, I never want to paint such a rosy picture that families enter into the process blindly. Today’s post focuses on some of the challenges within the adoption process, as well as what you can do even if you don’t feel called to adopt. What…