Family Resources

Martin Luther

Our New Favorite Resource for Family Devotionals

 After several failed attempts at establishing a Sunday Night Family Devotional Time, we’ve switched tactics. We’ve used several resources which we really liked, but were either too time-intensive and felt sort of contrived, or just lasted too long for Little Brother. It kept ending in frustration–for Older Brother, who truly was engaged but did not…

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Library Bag

4 Tips for Library Lovers, plus bonus quotes

Do you love the library as much as we do? Are you tired of paying exorbitant fees for the 30-some-odd books you forgot to renew five days ago?  Not that it’s ever happened {ahem} to us, of course. Are you ever disappointed to discover your library does not have a specific book you’d really love…

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How to Save Money on Children's Books

How to Save Money on Children’s Books

Note:  This post is part of a week-ish long series on one of my favorite topics–books: Children’s Books, Used Books, Favorite Books, Libraries and more.  Not interested in books?  Just skip over this series and join us again next week… Have you entered the Children’s Books Giveaway yet? You can do that here: Giveaway: 10…

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All Things Bright and Beautiful

All Things Bright and Beautiful: Easy Way to Add More Nature-Appreciation to Your Kids’ Lives

Want to add more nature-appreciation to your kids’ lives?  Not sure where to start?  Try this! It’s a poem!  It’s a hymn!  It’s a book!  It’s a great way to teach kids about our Creator God. When a friend and I started a (sort of) formalized nature study emphasis with our four kids, we began with…

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5 Books I'm Reading This Month

5 Books I’m Reading This Month

Having finished up most of the 11 books I was reading several months ago, a few new ones have been added to my list.  So far I’m loving all five of them, each for a different reason. Here’s my new list, with a few thoughts on each title.

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How to Choose the Best Children's Books: Honey for a Child's Heart

Honey for a Child’s Heart: How to Choose the Best Children’s Books

Children and books go together in a special way.  I can’t imagine any pleasure greater than bringing to the uncluttered, supple mind of a child the delight of knowing the many rich things God has given us to enjoy.  Parents have this wonderful privilege, and books are their keenest tools.  Children don’t stumble onto good books…

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Loving the Little Years: motherhood in the trenches

Loving the Little Years: motherhood in the trenches by Rachel Jankovic has been on my To-Read list for some time. At just over 100 pages, it’s a quick read.  Which is just about perfect for a book written by a mom-of-littles (five kids, five and under!) for other moms-of-littles. I have to say that I’m…

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How to Re-label Ex-Library Books for Your Personal Library | Roots & Boots

How to Re-label Ex-Library Books for Your Personal Library

We own A LOT of children’s books. Those of you who know us personally recognize this to be, perhaps, a major understatement.  I’ve often thought it would make a fun experiment to clock how long it takes first-time guests to our home to reach this casual observation.   “You have a lot of books,” they say.  …

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

Got Wisdom?

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about wisdom. In my role as a mother, I often feel inadequate.  There are situations that, on my own, I have no idea how to handle.  Well, actually, I can usually think of several ways to handle those situations, but the trouble is that I’m not sure which way…

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books I'm reading

11 Books I’m Reading

These are the books I’m currently reading, or have read in the past few months:

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