OVERWHELMED BY MY BLESSINGS

Anna also wrote letters to her future husband.  Since she loves to write, I wasn't surprised  that she had written several lette...

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...

Apart from regular school subjects, what things do you think are important to teach your children to prepare them for life? Or, what ...

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...

At my job (The Northwest Campus of LifeChurch.tv ) I'm known to my co-workers as The Swiss Army Knife. Anytime something needs to get do...

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...

In a devotional this week, I read this statement by Oswald Chambers: "...sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong being, deliberate and ...

The next spring break trip we took with Kody and Jacob was to Nashville, Tennessee. Dirk had discovered the Parthenon on PBS', "Th...

The next Spring Break trip we took with Kody and Jacob was to some nearby Civil War battlefields. For a couple of years, we had read and st...

As I mentioned on Friday, this week I will share some spring break trips we took in the past few years with our boys (before they got old en...

Addition Through 20 There are a few tricks that are helpful when teaching addition to 20. Here are a few that helped all my children. *When ...

Report Night A fun thing we did for a few years when the kids were young was to have a weekly “report night”. This was an evening that we lo...

Newspaper School One year I had the Daily Oklahoman deliver a newspaper for each child in our family every weekday morning. The Oklahoman o...