Are you ready to embark on the challenge? My book releases in a few weeks and lays out the charge to raise knights in training by issuing our boys the chivalry challenge! I’ll never forget the first day I printed off my knight’s code of chivalry and gathered my boys around. “It’s time for Knight-Training.” I […]
Boys
Nailing 95 Thesis…
Learning along-side my children is so much fun. I love that in addition to the basic skills they need to aqcuire (learning how to read, write and arithmetic), everything else is so varied. Every day is a new adventure as we learn more about the world around us. This study of courage has taken us down […]
Adventuring…
“Mom, mom,” my middle son whispered. I bent down to listen. “Let’s go. Let’s go on an adventure.” [pause] “Just you and me. Don’t worry, mom. I’ll be with you…” And so began our forest adventure. As we approached a meadow, he spotted drainage pipes going under the road. I could hear him catch his breath […]
Embracing the Chaos
My sister sent me this snippet from The Mother’s Almanac. It made me laugh and cry at the same time, especially since I had taken my boys to the park this morning and made up a game involving running laps across the field to burn energy. Although I thought chaos was just part and parcel […]
A New Skill Under My Belt
Trey received these colorful little ‘pills’ for his birthday from cousin E that grow into sponge animals when placed in warm water. The boys all love them. Last night during bathtime, we gave each boy a pill and soon enough there were two dolphins and a dinosaur swimming around with them. All was well until […]
New Territory
Growing up, I was a bit of a tomboy. Because of this (despite having no brothers), I felt VERY well prepared for marriage and hoped I’d be blessed with some little boys! I caught snakes, bugs, gutted fish, played sports, enjoyed getting dirty, blah, blah, blah. Oh and I can out eat many boys, so […]