Family
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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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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9 Favorite Children’s Books for Summer
The first day of summer is just around the corner! Check out these summery stories to enjoy with your littles as you welcome warmer weather, ripe berries, swim suits and all that comes with this season of sun.
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4 More Delightful Children’s Books About Gardening
Guess what: we’ve discovered four new favorite children’s books about gardening! Anyone else get all excited to read about gardens with their kids?
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Square Foot Gardening: How to Construct Sturdy, Economical Trellises for Climbing Crops
As you may know by now, we’ve undertaken two key experiments in our organic vegetable garden this year. Our first experiment revolves around a concept called Square Foot Gardening. (See book recommendation at the end of this post.) After installing the raised boxes and special soil mix, we needed trellises for climbing crops like zucchini and…
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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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Another Great Folk Album for Families
We love folk music here at the Yankee Homestead, and have amassed quite a collection of Family-Friendly Folk Favorites. Here’s another album we’ve recently added to our list:
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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
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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