A Kindred Spirit's Thoughts

So I’ve been thinking about kids and playtime activities.  If you’ve been on Pinterest lately, you may have noticed the plethora of ideas on how to keep your kids busy over the summer.
(I really wanted to use that word – plethora! haha)
Pinterest has been a source of great inspiration for me, but it can be extremely overwhelming as well!  I want to do SO many things I see, but I honestly don’t have the energy for all these things – and some of them seem to be too… adult-directed.  Add...

For a limited time, Friends and Heroes DVD collections and homeschool curriculum unit studies are on sale!  My kids are crazy about these characters and their Bible adventures!  From now until August 15, the DVD collections will be 10% off and the homeschool...

There has been a lot of this going on lately… :)   Every time I turn around she has her nose in a book!
On Monday, I went grocery shopping and Emma pulled out her book (Ramona and her Father) and read the entire time I shopped, glancing up once in awhile to make sure she was following the right person.  It was too cute.  I was even pushing one of those...

… that this is my first time making chili from scratch!
Okay, I’ve made stews and soups before from scratch, but never chili because I was happy with the canned chili I usually buy (and it seemed silly to buy cans of beans and ingredients to make it when I could just buy a few cans of it already made and...