I am hoping to make a new devotional for each month this year… that’s a big challenge, but it is something that has been on my heart. For March, our monthly theme will be Joy. We will be trying to find ways to make our home and lives a little more joyful through routines and habits.
Here is the FREE printable, if you’d like to join us:
Continue reading “Joy Unspeakable Devotional”
I am hoping to make a new devotional for each month this year… that’s a big challenge, but it is something that has been on my heart. For February, our monthly theme will be LOVE. We will be trying to find ways to make our home and lives a little more peaceful through routines and habits.
Here is the FREE printable, if you’d like to join us:
Continue reading “A LOVE That Never Fails Devotional”
We have been on a mission to bring our family closer together. This is something we have prayed long and hard about, and GOD is working!
We love a lot of old traditions and customs, along with some of the new ones. We try to have at least one or two ‘family get-togethers’ here at our home. The biggest is probably our annual Polar Express party around Christmas time… this has been happening for a while now, and everyone looks forward to it. Why stop at that? We were trying to have a special Sabbath meal each week, and also trying to plan a monthly family dinner with Papa and Nanny, but those got sidelined a bit.
Why? Well, our priorities shifted, and other things seemed more important. We have to make room and time for the people and things we truly love, so I am on a mission to bring back our family dinners. They may not be quite as fancy as they once were, because I’m still exhausted from all the challenges we had last year, but they will be fun.
Continue reading “A New Year of Old Traditions”
In a previous post, I mentioned that I am trying to integrate more FAITH into our homeschool. I touched on a few things that I am focusing on for the month of January, but here is the full outline of what I am planning for 2026 and future years.
I am trying to ‘stack’ them with the monthly themes I have come up with for our family. I know that once we develop the habits of incorporating these ideas, then they will become like second nature.
We work on our family budgets and get our Bills organized in January so it just makes sense to use this as a teaching moment for the kids.
Some ways we are doing this are:
We have been working our way through the ‘PEACE like a River’ Devotional with our homeschool. On day 9, we had this optional activity listed:
Watch ‘The Rare, Tiny Flower’ by Kitty O’Meara on YouTube.
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