Sarah Mackenzie is one of my favorite homeschoolers for inspiration about how to improve any and all aspects of my reading life. As a Sonlight Mom, I am especially encouraged by her insights into how we can integrate a love of reading into our homeschools and into the everyday lives of our children. She recently shared a motivating two part podcast entitled "Creating a Book … [Read more...] about Create a Book Club Culture at Home with Sonlight
Books
Total Christmas Makeover – 31 Devotions to Celebrate With Purpose (Book Review)
Total Christmas Makeover 31 Devotions to Celebrate With Purpose by Melissa Spoelstra I've always loved Christmas. When I found out my husband and I were expecting, I immediately began to dream about all the wonderful traditions we would do as a family every December; gingerbread houses, holiday cookies, caroling, and of course midnight mass. It was a very rude awakening … [Read more...] about Total Christmas Makeover – 31 Devotions to Celebrate With Purpose (Book Review)
Hiding From the Kids in My Prayer Closet (Book Review)
Hiding From the Kids In My Prayer Closet Finding Grace and Laughter When Motherhood Gets Real Thoughts On Hiding From the Kids in My Prayer Closet Jessica Kastner writes with frank humor often missing from Christian works. Although, she maintains a Christian perspective and 100% believes grace is why she is still standing, she doesn't gloss over the frank … [Read more...] about Hiding From the Kids in My Prayer Closet (Book Review)
Stepping on Cheerios by Betsy Singleton Snyder
Getting married and having kids is never easy. When you deliver four boys, including a set of triplets at forty seven, you lean on the Lord even more! In Stepping on Cheerios, Snyder talks frankly about her challenges in motherhood including getting nursing advice from her husband's colleagues; a group of politicians. In these pages you'll find humor and tears and a … [Read more...] about Stepping on Cheerios by Betsy Singleton Snyder
Think Again – Relief from the Burden of Introspection (Book Review)
"Correctly thinking highly of yourself means knowing that you are created in God's image. God's way to think lowly of yourself is to consider yourself the foremost of sinners and to consider others more important than yourself." Think Again Relief From the Burden of Introspection Jared Mellinger believes we have gotten a little carried away with decades of … [Read more...] about Think Again – Relief from the Burden of Introspection (Book Review)