I was at an event once that involved about 6 families. We all had our kids with us and it was really interesting to watch what happened when it came time to clean up. The parents asked the kids to help and get involved in the clean up. Both boys and girls were given task and they all went off to complete their assignment. But half the group of boys who were asked to clean--slacked off. They played around when they should've of been cleaning and then they pleaded, "helpless". Then I saw the ... continue reading...
Why We Still Need to Cuddle With Our Tween Boys
I was going through our usual bedtime routine. I sat next to my oldest and I put my arms around him and began praying for him. Recently we've been focusing on prayer and important things to include in our prayer--Wow... Sorry... Thank you... and Please... anyways that's for another post. So, I was totally focused on trying to model this way of praying and including these things in my prayer. Then it happened. All of the sudden he reached for my hand. I was shocked! You see he's at ... continue reading...
Healthy Waffles Gluten Free
I was appalled when I discovered the amount of sugar my kids were consuming for breakfast. I would say we are over all healthy eaters but breakfast has been one of the places that sugar sneaks in even when I think they are having a healthy meal. I noticed when I was homeschooling them that if they had cereal with yogurt or a peanut butter and jelly sandwiches they were hungry within in an 1.5. It was a lot sooner if it was sugary cereal (we don't have this often but sometimes I bought it as ... continue reading...
Friends are Not Friends Forever
After living in another country for 8 years now I have to disagree with Michael W. Smith's words-- friends are not friends forever. Maybe if I lived years ago when people stayed in the same small town their whole life I'd feel differently but the reality is we live in a transient society where people move at least 2-3 times in their life. I came upon a Facebook post that I shared 5 months after arriving into our new home in South America and it said, Missing my friends. Friends are friends ... continue reading...
How Boys Cuddle
How Boys Cuddle That's my youngest, tackling me when he heard the words"let's cuddle". Not exactly what I was thinking but I still got my cuddle fix in. I have my own brood of little men, all under the age of 11. Though I only have three, DO NOT and I repeat do. not., underestimate the power of three little bored boys on a rainy day. It can be enough to send a mom to the looney bin. I'm joking but.. um, hmmm, kind of serious. Seriously though, I love everything about them! Well, ... continue reading...
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