This October, I'm joining a bunch of bloggers in taking the Write 31 Days Challenge. Last year, I wrote 31 Days of Wisdom for Moms Like Me, a 31-day journey through the book of Proverbs. It was a month of learning things I need to know. This month, I am going to focus my writing on things my kids need to know. My posts will be written much like letters to my little ones, but I feel ...
When you wonder, “What’s happened to the world?”
Yesterday, for the second time since school started, a Mississippi university was on lockdown because of a reported shooter on campus. Unlike what happened at Mississippi State, yesterday's events ended in tragedy. And, we all looked around and wondered, "What's happened to the world?" My heart goes out to the students and faculty and staff at Delta State and to their ...
What I want….
I've said it before: I always miss Africa most on rainy days. It's raining today. And, my good friend and travel buddy just arrived in Kenya. WITHOUT me. It was bound to happen sometime. I'm married. She's not. I've got four kids to take care of here while she has children of her heart there. Obviously, the time would come when she could go and I could ...
Grace to Grow
Her math work is divided into brightly-colored sections because if she's going to have to do math, it might as well be colorful, right? Of course, she spent nearly as much time creating the pretty page as she did actually working the problems, but I can live with that. Sometimes, I have to remind myself that when I'm teaching my children, I'm teaching individually-created human beings who ...