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Does Christmas shopping have to be a burden or puzzle? Not necessarily. If you have good ideas, and the right attitude, you too can survive the annual shopping flurry. A few principles we've adopted over the years help manage the gift budget for our family. First, having multiple sons (six in our case) introduces economies of scale.…
Dear Friends and Family, Hal and I spent the day at Duke today consulting with the oncologist and thoracic surgeon. There is a very large tumor behind Hal's breastbone. It is providential that it is in this site because if it were *anywhere* else, he could not have had a tumor this large and not…
It's been one of those weeks for our family. Actually, it's been one of those years, but that's a story for a different time. In the midst of Hal's pneumonia and probable cancer diagnosis, three of the children recovering from surgery, three of the other children sick and getting sicker, our oldest son still at…
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…
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!
Monday, we'll be hosting the Homeschool Freebie of the Day with a free download of one of our most popular conference workshops!
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…
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…
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…
“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…