by Trisha Childers | Jun 29, 2020 | Home on Purpose, Homeschool, Parenting
2020 has definitely been a year of uncertainty. If you have kiddos in school (like me) that uncertainty is compounded with the pressure to make decisions based on little to no information. Will our school be open this fall? If it is open, will I feel...
by Trisha Childers | Apr 30, 2020 | Home on Purpose, Parenting
Has anyone else felt the same progression as I have? March was a mess. In April, I slowly found my footing. Now as we head into May, life feels (thankfully) far more predictable! As schools and other organizations make firm decisions on how they will finish the...
by Jennifer Bryant | Apr 6, 2020 | Homeschool, Parenting
How many of us can say that we feel truly prepared for any crisis? I have enough trouble just getting through the day to day craziness that is family life! We often don’t think about the thing we can do to prepare our family to survive and thrive in unforeseen...
by Lyneta Smith | Nov 20, 2019 | Christmas, Parenting
“Don’t touch that! It’s for Thanksgiving dinner.” The joke in our house the week before Thanksgiving was “full refrigerator, nothing to eat.” We spent the week preparing for a beautiful Thanksgiving experience. I placed my value on my ability to make everything...
by Lyneta Smith | Oct 30, 2019 | Food, Parenting
For as long as I can remember, my Dad stuffed the turkey and prepped it for the oven every Thanksgiving Day. Like every other day, this daddy’s girl stuck to him like the gravy we glommed onto potatoes. After what seemed like hours of chopping and sautéing celery and...
by Trisha Childers | Oct 29, 2019 | Christmas, Parenting
What happened when your kids opened their gift last Christmas? Chances are, every time they saw a new toy, they wanted to rip open the box and begin playing with it immediately. Maybe you got them to say thank you to the relative before they opened the gift. But at...