I had the privileged to share with my fellow threadbare mommas this week in our little group. I thought you all might enjoy hearing the thou...

Disconnected, alone, discouraged. These are the secret burdens I carry. As a stay at home, homeschooling Mama I wrestle with not hav...

So this week we're taking part in a blog hop with our friends from Adventures in Odyssey. Wee! Over the last few posts we've been t...

Hi friends! There was so much to tell you about this summer project that Adventures in Odyssey has planned that I thought I'd break it ...

I don’t know about you, but as I look forward to my summer vacation with my kids I’m seeing an awful lot of white space. A glaring, in your...

Can we be honest for a sec? Like take a look at my closet of secrets that I don’t want to tell you about – honest? I’d like to think my vuln...

I have another treat for you, today we have another guest post from my new friend Sarah Knepper, won't you join me in welcoming her into...

We've learned a ton at Bible school this week. We've learned all the normal stuff about God and Heaven and all that stuff that was t...

As I prepared my family to meet up with a friend the other day, I found myself making a list of all the faults I needed to point out.  - M...

For the last 15 months or so we have used photography as a means to fundraise for our adoption. Now that our adoption is complete, and the d...

I have some articles that I've written for an online news source that I haven't shared with you. Here are links to some of the recen...

We've had so much fun reading these books and sharing them with you this week. Guess what. We aren't done yet! Today we're pa...

This week we're doing a series about the fun and interesting ways we distract ourselves from the frustration of our adoption woes. We...

The other day I hosted a photography workshop for some friends who had DSLR cameras but were stuck on AUTO. (Blech.) We met up at the local ...

If you want your children to be creative, you yourself have to model creativity. One of the best ways to model creativity is to have family...

Our weekend adventure for this week included a spontaneous lunch with friends from church followed by a trip to their neighborhood pool. The...

It's demolition day here at the Peterson house! A few years back we had the opportunity to purchase the abandoned lot that was next to ...

Earlier this week we had a lovely little ice storm that covered the woods surrounding my house in a layer of ice. At the time of the storm I...

We heard word of this storm over the weekend, before it hit California. A two wave storm that would drop 14-16 inches, blowing and drifting,...

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