homeschool, adoption, parenting, family, homemaking
Collection Week for Operation Christmas Child is coming up soon (November 12-19), but there is still plenty of time to pack a box! Since we know it’s sometimes difficult to come up with ideas, Amy and I have come up with big ol’ lists to get you going. I’m sharing 100 shoebox ideas for a [...]
This year, we decided to prepare one Operation Christmas Child shoebox for each age and gender. There are three age groups: 2-4 years; 5-9 years; and 10-14 years. That means we’re packing six shoeboxes! How we pack our Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes: In the past we’ve bought small plastic shoeboxes, but I’ve learned this year [...]
We love doing Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes each year! We have an OCC box that sits on our schoolroom shelf all year round, just waiting for anything we come across that would fit in a shoebox and make a good little gift. We’re always on the lookout for OCC goodies in the $1 section at [...]
Right now Jolanthe and the rest of the Compassion Bloggers are in Tanzania. As I’m following along (you can follow along with them, too!), I’m 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 thought I’d want to [...]
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 [...]
I spent some time on the AdoptUsKids website earlier today, looking at profiles of children waiting to be adopted, and hearing them talk about how hard it is to be in this state of limbo. “We want to be able to feel secure somewhere.” Feeling loved and secure are so important, but these kids in [...]
We finished up our school year a couple of weeks ago, but it really sort of fizzled to a close, rather than ending with a bang. I think next year I’m going to try to have some sort of more official end so that we can celebrate accordingly. Of course there are a few things [...]
I believe that parenting is a ministry. The Lord has given us the mighty task of teaching our children what love is, what family means, and who God is. We are to disciple and train them so they may grow into a relationship with Christ; this is our calling as Christian parents. Adoption is all [...]
Since we have spent the past few weeks getting ready for a big yard sale this coming Saturday, we decided we’d give a percentage of the funds from that towards providing mattresses and blankets for the orphans at Guma Na Yesu Children’s Center. The stormy weather has moved out, and it looks like Saturday will [...]
The county where we live has become the 4th highest county for abortions in Georgia. I’m not okay with that. Our church works with a ministry called Cobb Pregnancy Services (CPS), which is a Christian ministry offering counseling and help to women facing crisis pregnancies. Many of these women enter the doors convinced that abortion [...]
Last week my awesome husband was in Mexico on a men’s mission trip with a group from our church. He returned last night and I was soooooo glad to see him! The goal of the trip was to build new homes for two families, to host a festival at the local church on the last [...]
Last week, Lindsey was in Dallas, Texas with the youth from our church on a mission trip. Mostly, they worked at Vacation Bible Schools out in inner city communities. (Side note, I grabbed these photos from a facebook album from the trip.) The not fun parts: a very long bus ride to and from Texas; [...]
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