Forty-five minutes to travel six and a half kilometers!  Talk about getting nowhere fast! On the road to visit our son in St. Jean sur Richelieu, we encountered traffic the likes of which we never experience at home.  There was nothing we could do about it except wait it out.  After hours of driving the…

The tables are cleared, pencils sharpened and the schedule printed. Does that mean we are ready? Ready for what? Hours are spent making preparations for a budget, choosing curriculum, planning space and a schedule and trying to forecast the temperature of the upcoming homeschool year. Two invaluable lessons I have learned after 14 years of…

Teenage son is home from university, house is loaded with friends, summer heat and humidity are ramping up, laundry waits, dishes in the sink. I was not really surprised that sleep was eluding me. When I get busy, my mind does not seem to be able to gear down. After a few days of being…

“I’m just a mum.” “I only have (insert #) children.” You just read two of the biggest lies ever told!  I believe that those two four letter words are some of Satan’s most powerful tools. I don’t know how many times I’ve been questioned on what I do and when I respond that I am…

I looked back through my journal and realized that it has been over a month since I have written.  I have been so tired that day by day has been my limit. Last week, I had the opportunity to take my oldest daughter on a trip to NYC.  After a three hour flight, we were…

Two teens, one kitchen, a handful of ingredients and we had a gourmet supper.  The table was laid with white linen, silver and china.  Crystal glasses waited poised to receive sparkling pomegranate juice.  Candlelight danced through the room and the savoury aroma of garlic permeated the air. The children suggested that they would enjoy having…

“Hey Mum!  Just wanted you to know that while I’ve been here this summer, I’ve become a really good stripper.  One of the guys I spend a lot of time with  is a great stripper and when I watch him I am amazed.  He can even do it blindfolded!” Is anybody else a little bit…

Did you ever do something half-heartedly?  Are you a multi-tasker?  Highly skilled in working on two or 20 things at once? Reading in Deuteronomy, there are a number of places where we are told to do something with ALL of our effort and resources.  In fact, when I checked, the NIV cited 167 times when…