OVERWHELMED BY MY BLESSINGS

Letter from our youngest daughter, Katie….quite the prophetess! Written by Katie Meadows Mansour, April 29, 2002.  13 years old Hey fu...

I've been cleaning out some old stuff and discovered a small gold mine of Katie and Anna's old spiral notebooks. The notebooks w...

I went online to the library website and reserved a bunch of books both fiction and non-fiction on kids gardening.  My boys have a lot of ex...

Our son, Kody, recently completed a music innovations class offered by Paul and Jennifer Colley at their recording studio in Oklahoma City. ...

Having a small garden plot (or even growing in containers) is an excellent way to teach many traditional school subjects, but with a hands-o...

Yesterday was one of those days when just enough hell broke loose to make me doubt just about everything I was doing.  No need for details. ...

For many years I have been very protective of my time.   I rarely plan things on Saturday, especially, because that's my day with my hus...

After my last blog done on unit studies I had a few people ask me exactly how I went about planning and carrying out the theme.  In this lo...

We have a God crisis over here at the Simms' household.  In our nightly prayers my littlest guy (3) has been wanting to pray to Santa as...

After a whirlwind year with Jon being deployed and trying to stay busy and on-the-go so I didn’t go crazy missing him, we’ve recently ma...

I teach a 3 and 5 year old at home (ok, sometimes it 's more like attempting to do activities with my 5 year old while the 3 year old is...

  Eyes Wide Open: Avoiding the Heartbreak of Emotional Promiscuity by Brienne Murk This book talks about giving your heart away, too much, ...

. . .  black chart, blue chart, old chart, new chart.   Some are sad.   And some are glad.   And some are very, very bad.   Chart, chart, c...