Have you ever asked someone how they were and walked away before you really listened to the answer?  Has anyone ever done that to you? Has anyone ever waited to hear your answer and you smiled and simply said, “OK”? I have a friend who won’t let me say, “OK”.  Her response to that is…

  Numbers 11:14…the burden is too heavy for me. Once upon a time, I heard a story of a father with his daughter at the train station.  The girl and her daddy were deep in conversation when she asked him a question about choices.  The daddy looked tenderly at his little girl and told her…

Spilled milk, broken eggshells, and flour exploded all over the kitchen counter.  How could this be a positive thing?  What good could come from this chaos? In the process of making, baking and decorating over 300 cookies for DVBS, I had the joy of spending hours with my daughters in the kitchen.  I need to…

Looking into the angry eyes of my child I wonder where I went wrong. “Children are a pain!”  “I’m not having any kids.”  “Working maintenance would be better than having to be a counselor!” What happened to make this child so negatively inclined toward children? The early teen years can be a challenge as children…

Stephanie Jackson, Nova Scotia – homeschooling since 1998 “We need a head shot and a brief bio, including when you started homeschooling.” A head shot?  Good grief…I’m rarely even in our pictures let alone one of just me. Who needed these things and why?  In September, a new homeschooling magazine is being launched to encourage…

Seventeen years ago, God blessed me with a beautiful little boy.  Baby soft golden curls encircled bright shining eyes and his little laugh and sense of adventure were only the beginning of the depth of his independence. As a single mum for the first three years of his life, I poured everything I had into…

It is one of the yummiest times of year – fresh fruit season.  Now I could also say that about homemade bread season in the fall and Christmas season in the winter and bbq season in the spring.  But there is something special about savouring the mouth watering, juice dripping, sweet and stickly berries that…

A few years ago, my mum took my brother and I on a whirlwind trip of Western Europe.  We went to Scotland, Holland, Belguim, France and England.  It was the trip of a lifetime and we enjoyed discovering many new cultures. When my grandfather was in WWII, he served in Holland and his Regiment was…

Earlier this week, we had the priviledge of attending our son’s “Joining Ceremony” for the military. Seven young men gathered together with a collection of officers and NCMs and pledged their fidelity to Queen and Country. As a mother, there was a certain amount of pride in knowing that out of over 1200 applicants, only…

Recently, I bought a book for my husband called Redeeming the Time, by Steve Maxwell.  One of the Maxwell family’s key philosophies is that God made us to do. When I hear children whine, “I’m bored!” my immediate reaction is that I can find plenty for them to do. So much discontent comes from not…