Family Game Night: Board Games for Kids and Families
We are a family who loves to play games! It all started while growing up. My earliest memories are of game nights with my grandparents and board games with my brother. To this day, my grandparents, who...
View ArticleEating Together: How to Establish Family Meal Times
I’m an idealist. I have this picture in my head of how I want my family to look and the habits I want us to have. The trouble is, sometimes I’m so focused on that perfect picture, I become discouraged...
View ArticleSubscription Gifts for Kids and Families
Fall is in the air, and I couldn’t be more excited! Well, actually, I could be. I could be a lot more excited. Oh yes, I love fall. What I don’t love is that winter is right around the corner, and with...
View ArticleHow to Make Better Decisions for Your Family
Our family made a big life change this year. Coming to a final decision was not easy. We labored over our choices, exploring our options, praying earnestly, and seeking Godly counsel. The months...
View ArticleHalloween Alternatives to Open your Home and your Heart to your Neighbors
As we are planning our events this October, I want again to encourage us all to make our choices prayerfully. Our decisions shouldn’t be based on what other people are or aren’t doing, but rather on...
View ArticleThe Truth about Haunted Houses :: A Former Witchdoctor Recounts His...
My father-in-law, Michael Dawson, is a missionary to the Yanomamö people in the Amazon Rainforest of Venezuela. His parents first went down as missionaries in the early 1950s, and Mike was born and...
View ArticleHalloween :: The Choice Our Christian Family Has Made
Many of you have asked whether or not our family participates in halloween. In the years we have been parents, we have treated each year differently. I am embarrassed to admit there have been some...
View ArticleKids Advent Resources for Children’s Ministry
Every time church attendance comes up, we talk about them :: Creastors. You know what I mean, people who attend church only on Christmas and Easter. We know this, yet do we do anything about it? Is...
View ArticleThanksgiving Books for Kids
As the weather turns cold and the evenings arrive sooner, we love cozying up with some great books. We learn and grow and are changed through story. These are some of our family’s favorite books to...
View ArticleThankfulness :: Books for Kids that Teach Gratitude
We are all fighting daily for gratitude, and teaching our kids to live lives of thankfulness takes constant reinforcement. These are some of our favorite books to inspire gratitude in our kids....
View ArticleScripture Memory for Kids :: 10 Verses about Gratitude
One of the best ways to retrain our minds and hearts is to meditate on Truth. When I’m struggling to be thankful, I need something to replace the negative thoughts. God’s Word tells us to “Give thanks...
View ArticleWhen You’re Struggling to Become a Thankful Family
Do you ever feel like the time of year we are supposed to be most grateful, we struggle the most with discontentment, complaining, or ingratitude? We are three months into the school year, have just...
View ArticleOur Favorite Christmas Worship Music
We are officially one day past Thanksgiving — let the Christmas music commence! We are now in full-swing Christmas mode! My Christmas music choices have changed over the years. Some of my all-time...
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Advent Resources for Tired Families :: 2015 Edition
Six years ago, Advent was new to me. As a child, I hadn’t celebrated Advent apart from watching families light the Advent candle at church each Sunday. With a little one at home, I was eager to learn...
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SHOW them love 68 different ways
How well do you love your kids? It’s a question that’s been simmering in my mind and heart this past year. “I love you” falls from my mouth so easily and so often, but we all know that being loved...
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Bible Reading Challenge for Families :: March 2016
I am super excited to share the #familiesintheWord Bible reading challenge for March! Putting this month’s reading plan together was such a challenge because it is ALL ABOUT JESUS! Of course, the fact...
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Epic School Decisions
One summer when I was young and single, I had to decide how to spend my summer – studying abroad at Oxford or on an adventure trip in the Pacific Northwest. The options were polar opposites but both...
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What You Need to Hear Today
Do you ever feel like you’ve failed in the Mom category? Dishes are piled up in the sink. You’re wondering what to make for breakfast and pulling clothes off the laundry pile so everyone has something...
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42 Ways you can Volunteer in your Kids’ School
Whether you have a few hours a day or only an hour or two a month, volunteering in your kids’ school is beneficial for your kids, for YOU, and for the school. In fact, I even pay to volunteer. (Read...
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Why I Pay to Volunteer
I’m not gonna lie. Paying for babysitting stinks. I want to say that I love paying for babysitters. We have some pretty stellar kids who babysit for us, and they take such great care of our kids. They...
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