Used with Permission
By Carrie Daws
www.TOSMagazine.com
With its ups and downs, homeschooling is like being on a roller coaster. Some moments you rush at high speed as you cherish your children and can’t dream of ever doing anything else. Other moments drag on as you doggedly remind yourself of the reasons you’re doing this in the first place.
Military life isn’t much different. (more…)
Used with Permission
Written by Katharine Trauger
katharinetrauger.wordpress.com
Imagine with me, if you can, that you live on the East Coast in a town that has been established for only about twenty years, when many of your friends live in log cabins and England is taxing you out of house and home. You are of famous Puritan descent and are married to a Congregational minister. Your little girl is born the year after Thomas Jefferson and the year before John Jay. You have yet to meet them, but you know your daughter has made her appearance at an auspicious time and place.
Imagine, if you can, your delight as she grows and begins to show her personality, to find that she is a generous soul, kind to all, with wise perceptions of her little world, and everyone’s darling. She loves buttons and bows, the more colorful, the better. (more…)
by Sheila Campbell
One winter we received several inches of snow just after Christmas. The first days of the snow were joyous; the hazy winter sky and the snow-covered yard were beautiful, and being snowed in gave us some much-needed family time. It had been a very hectic and busy fall season, and I felt we needed some leisure time, so we canceled school for the week.
It was on one of those leisurely vacation days that the Lord reminded me of a valuable truth about faithfulness, strength, and joy. (more…)