Do your kids love adventure stories or graphic novels? Do you want them to read clean and uplifting stories that have meaning and encourage them? The new Covenant Kids series by Andrew Youngblood fulfills all of these! This colorful graphic novel (could also be called a comic book) is the first story in a series about kids growing up where speaking about their faith, learning or worshiping God outside of church is illegal. Four teenagers feel God calling them to study the Bible for themselves despite the law. In Covenant Kids Book 1 - The Law they work their way through Genesis ... Continue Reading...
Courage for Life Bible App
Today I want to share with you about the new Courage For Life Bible App - the first female voiced audio Bible! A female voiced audio Bible opens new doors for women who may have abuse-related trauma that keeps them from feeling comfortable listening to a male voiced audio Bible. Women who have been abused or hurt often have a hard time accepting truth from male missionaries or ministers. They need a woman to share with them in a gentle way only a woman can. Courage For Life exists to strengthen, equip and empower the world for Christ. They want to reach women and meet them where they ... Continue Reading...
A Truly Tasty Cheese!
In our house we have a saying: "There's no such thing as too much cheese or too much chocolate!" This is especially true of the best cheeses and chocolates. Truly Grass Fed Natural Aged Cheddar falls under the "best cheese" category. Truly Grass Fed provided us with some samples so we hosted a few cheese-loving friends and tried it out. There may have been a joke or two about 'cutting the cheese', but we had a lot of fun trying this great tasting cheese. Truly Grass Fed™ products are imported from Ireland where their co-op of 3,000 small Irish dairy farms. Their cows spend 250-300 ... Continue Reading...
Wildscape – Not Your Average Frozen Meals!
Have you ever wanted a healthy, easy-to-cook, AND great-tasting freezer meal? I know right? Sounds impossible! Well, I'm here to tell you it isn't. Enter Wildscape Meals! Wildscape has attempted to inovate frozen meals. Their mission is to provide flavorful and easy meals featuring nature's best offerings. Wildscape Meals are packaged in resealable and recyclable plastic containers. These take about 8 minutes total to prepare (besure to follow package directions carefully!) but you can cook more than one at a time in the microwave. They have six flavors: Seared ... Continue Reading...
2018-2019 Homeschool Curriculum
It is that time of the year again - everyone is on the hunt for the perfect homeschool curriculum for the upcoming Fall term. Well, I don't have the "perfect" curriculum (because every child is different and every homeschooling parent teaches differently so the combinations of successful homeschooling are endless - literally endless!) but its nice to glimpse into other homeschool days to see what others do. You never know when a change might be in order or you will stumble upon that "perfect" curriculum to fit into the gap you've been struggling to fill. 2018-2019 has been a crazy year for ... Continue Reading...
Gut Connection by Country Life
I've been on a mission over the last few months to improve my health by eating better and drinking more water. Unfortunately that just hasn't done much for my overall health. I've had IBS-type symptoms but with no regularity. When I was given a chance to review Country Life's Gut Connection I jumped at it. Probiotics are a big thing right now in gut health, but Gut Connection is NOT a probiotic - these are prebiotics - to be specific Gut Connection by Country Life contains whole food fermentate prebiotic that feeds the existing probiotics in your gut. Country Life's Gut Connection is ... Continue Reading...
School’s Out, Craft’s In with Deflecto®
If you've been through my blog much at all you'll know I love all things crafty. I'm not artistic, but I love to craft! I've probably dabbled in a bit of everything over the years: paper crafting (stamping, card making, scrapbooking, bullet journaling, etc.), quilting and some small sewing projects, DIY home decor, and I can even do basic crochet. On top of my personal crafting, we homeschool which automatically equals kids crafts! Simple crafts (or not-so-simple sometimes) are a very effective hands-on way for kids to grasp a concept or remember important ... Continue Reading...
Spring fun! No Red, Itchy Eyes
Our family suffers annually with seasonal allergies. We live on a rural farm with all sorts of trees, grasses, and flowers. From February to June there is no lack of pollen floating about. One of the worst culprits is the crimson clover we plant each year to help fertilize our pecan trees. We found out when we first planted the clover that our oldest son is highly allergic to it. Whenever he walks near it or through it during its full bloom his eyes get puffy, red and very itchy. Last year we tried several different allergy medications and eye drops for him, but nothing made any ... Continue Reading...
Tiny Truths Illustrated Bible {Book Review}
The Incredible Story of Who God Is, Who You Are, and Who You Were Made To Be Join us as we check out the Tiny Truths Illustrated Bible by Joanna Rivard and Tim Penner. We were given a copy to read and review by the publisher and my kids have come to love this book and look forward to reading it each night before bed. This little Bible story book includes 15 Old Testament stories and 18 New Testament stories. They are pretty comprehensive and each story is about four pages long. Some are quicker reads than others. We like how easy the stories are to read. My daughter who ... Continue Reading...
Life can change in a moment
My last post, dated July 7, 2018 seems like such a long time ago in so many ways. I published that post just three days before my family's life changed in such an unexpected, and times heartbreaking, way. I've procrastinated posting about it on my blog and social media for several reasons. This blog has always been more "business" for me than "personal" - reviews, homeschool stuff, etc. and not much of our personal lives. I don't want to change that too much as I don't care to brag or rant, but rather share fun things people might find useful. I feel like I can't just jump back in with ... Continue Reading...
Game Night: Wild Dash
You probably know by now that our family loves games so I'm bringing you another game in our "Game Night" series. We love finding new games and the great folks at RoosterFin Games sent us this super fun one called Wild Dash. It is tagged as "A game where creatures stampede and gadgets add speed." and my kids have been enjoying this game a lot. Wild Dash is a card game where the animal racers use boosters to increase their speed to win the race. Players are dealt five cards and choose a racer card to lay down face down. One player will shake the dice box and release a colored ... Continue Reading...
Game Night: Rabbit Pirates
My family loves games. We have a family game night nearly every week so we are always on the lookout for fun new games. I was asked to review this adorable game from RooserFin Games called Rabbit Pirates. This is a card game rated for ages 7 and up, but my 4 year old loves to play too. He needs help counting up his tokens at the end, but my 6 year old was able to play without any help at all. This game is meant for two, three or four players. Game setup is simply laying out the three "island" game boards and putting the tokens equally in the center of all three islands. The ... Continue Reading...
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