How sweet are your words to my taste!

Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

(Psalm 119:103)

My red leather-bound Bible could tell a thousand tales — not only sto...

Today was not unlike any other day, complete with the high pitched whine of roll after roll of SCOTCH TAPE!  My middle-est son, Brody, outdid himself today.  "Mama, check out my wicked Wolverine costume."

As I took this photo this afternoon I remembered another post all about Scotch Tape... and one of our more challenging days.

(AUGUST 2011)

On the last day of the bo...

"If I treat someone with indifference,

I am declaring to that individual, 'I don’t love you.'"

(Chuck Swindoll)

One of my 9 nine year old's vocabulary words recently was INDIFFERENT.  We defined it thus: To not have an opinion one way or the other....

I never thought myself a formula girl until I had babies. No, I'm not talking about Infant Formulas -not Enfamil, Similac, or Bright Beginnings. I mean that blessed equation where a+b = c. Every time. ALWAYS! This is what my ingrained equation looked like when I popped out my three boys: If I wake up each morning and use tender words with my children, set up the easel often, bake homemade cookies, read Bible stories, gently correct, consistently train, al...

It was the end of a long week and all 3 boys were weary and raged, and here I was trying to fit a quick trip to the grocery store into their exhausting afternoon. They yelled for things, cried at me, ran up and down aisles, and hit at each other. I would have loved to turn around and go straight home, but there was no other chance for me to get the shopping done.

I felt atta...

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control...  Since we live by the Spirit let us keep in step with the Spirit!"

There are days (even seasons) when the fruit of God's Spirit in our home has been sour and rancid...

When I tell people I have three strong-willed boys I often hear "O, I have one of those too... My little Ashley knows exactly what she wants and will pout until she gets it."

Uh...

“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance.

The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,

as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied

a single moment in all your life.

You can turn over...

I'll tell you right now that I should be too ashamed to write this post.  But then I realized that these embarrassing posts are the ones that encourage those in the trenches the absolute most.  

Last night as I lay cuddling my Middle-est we talked about all the things he likes the best: Coloring, Star War, Coloring Star Wars, Riding Bikes, Battling with Swords, Cuddling with Mommy... &#...

It's been a long couple of months, and writing this post tonight is no guarantee that I'm actually back.   LIfe is still a bit unsettled to say the least.  But the computer is up and the internet is wired, and I have a moment of quiet.  

In the past four weeks we moved into our new home, I began homeschooling all three boys, and my husband started a new job that is both exciti...