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Urgent Prayer Request for Hal
Dearest Friends, I didn't think I could bear anything else right now, but my loving Father had a different plan and though I can not understand it, I accept it from His hand and trust Him to bring us through it. I told some of you earlier this week about Hal's pneumonia and Katie and…
Carnival of Homeschooling: Christmas Ornament Edition
Raising Real Men is featured in this week's Carnival of Homeschooling at The Homeschool Post, along with a ton of other great blog posts - both Christmas oriented and not.  Now that we are home from Apologia's great Christmas party, I can't wait to spend some time looking through these great sounding posts!
Christmas Gifts for Boys
Hal and I are the guest columnists on tomorrow's issue of The Homeschooler's Notebook. Sign up for this biweekly encouragement and information packed newsletter here. The Homeschooler's Notebook is edited by Heather Idoni, owner of Beloved Books - a recommended resource.  We'll be talking about gift ideas for boys.  We've also been talking about gifts…
The Ornament of the Year: Preserving God’s Working in our Lives
Christmas had always been a special time in both our families growing up, our mothers made many of the ornaments on our tree, we had certain foods that were always served, certain activities the family always did. Our first Christmas together after our marriage found us over a thousand miles away from our childhood homes…
Five Kernels of Corn
Thanksgiving at our house finds us gathered around the table with five kernels of corn alone on each plate. A child rises and reads the poem, Five Kernels of Corn. We pray and thank the Lord for his bountiful provision for us. As we pile into the feast, the topic of conversation is the blessings…
Announcing our Big Thanksgiving Sale!!!
“Should we have a Black Friday or Internet Monday sale?” one of us asked. “Of course! Raising Real Men would make a great Christmas gift – encouragement you can wrap up as a gift – but let’s call it a Thanksgiving sale. We are so thankful for God’s gifts, this is a way we can…
Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie – A Real Men Pleaser :-)
I'm making plans about cooking for Thanksgiving and I wanted to share an absolutely awesome recipe with you. It is seriously the bee's knees. It's the bomb. It raises pumpkin pie to new level. And every one of the seven males in my house love it. You know what, I think I'll serve it for…
The Thanksgiving Tree
Several years ago we found ourselves in November facing a job loss and relocation with no clear direction ahead. Things were looking pretty grim for the holidays. Now how were we going to give thanks in all things, like the apostle Paul said to do? How could we model this for our young sons? Somewhere…
Raising Real Men Reviewed on Arrows in the Hand
Raising Real Men.......Surviving, Teaching, and Appreciating Boys Written by Hal and Melanie Young I had pre-ordered this book and was so very excited to receive it in the mail last week. And I thought it was really cool that the authors signed the book! I just finished it today and can say that I LOVED…