Happy Valentine's Day, Mamas. My Valentine for you is this 1877 Valentine for a mama. O little ones, where are you going? “To find where the beanstalk grew: We remember that Jack cut it down, But perhaps it has sprouted anew, And we want to bring home to our mother, As he did, some ... View Post

We had a pretty little snow at the beginning of the week. Snow fills me with childhood memories: riding in the car with Daddy Leland to go to his and Mama Sue's house to play in the snow with my Aunt Emily, wearing bread sacks held on by rubber bands to keep my feet dry when boots weren't ... View Post

Yesterday afternoon in the YouTube Live assembly for our church, Ray taught from Psalm 15. He told us that we were going to be talking about one of those big Bible words. The word is righteousness. Righteousness is missing from the vocabulary of too many. It's a word I don't hear anywhere except in ... View Post

On Monday evening, when I was writing the post for yesterday, I wondered if wise men was one word or two, so I looked it up in an online dictionary. I was heartbroken when the dictionary made no mention of the wise men who came to see Jesus. My husband Ray is no reactionary, but he said that he ... View Post

This December must be a dark time for many people. I’m sure that many are lonely, many are depressed about the news, and many are struggling to make sense of the world swirling around them. Ray and I decided to dispel a bit of the darkness by the simple act of putting lights on our house and in our ... View Post

On Monday we had a beautiful first snow. First, we saw some tiny flurries . . . . . . and then we started seeing the big "painted corn flakes" kind of snowflakes falling. It was almost as if we were in a snow globe. That reminds me of our earliest days of homeschooling when I wasn't ... View Post