Happy Purim!  We've never celebrated Purim before, so this year was a bit of an experiment.  I won't pretend to know much about Pur...

You can see Isaac's toes peeking out from under the blanket on the right.  He fell fast asleep while watching the stories. I heard o...

The above Bible is  The Gospel Story Bible .  Rowan received this story Bible for Christmas and overall I really like the parts we've ...

Last week we read the lesson about Jesus blessing the children in our Bible curriculum .  I like that the lesson focused on what a blessing...

I mentioned before that we are working our way through the first book of Telling God's Story by Peter Enns.  It has been slow going ...

I love working with magnet paper.  You can use it in a printer, but it is also fun to draw on.  I took a sheet with me to York and drew up...

 I've been fascinated by mothers of great men in the past couple years.  I went to a lecture about Tolkien last year and was struck...

All Saints Day is something I've wanted to celebrate with the boys for the last few years, but it just hasn't happened.  At the Godl...

The boys loved cutting bricks and building a city and tower of Babel.  The game on the table is called 'Turmbau zu Babel' (Tower of ...

There are so many books about the story of Noah.  And for awhile, I was collecting Noah books in particular, so I have over a dozen, but onl...

 We've been reading through Genesis as a family (starting with creation, which I shared here) and we just finished up Noah's story....

This is my favorite creation book.  When I first read it to our little class at church they all oohed and awed as I turned the vibrant pag...

:: Hoping the baby sleeps through the night after a rough afternoon of being sick.    :: Recognizing the fruit of the Spirit for Jonah when...

A question I've been asking a lot over the past few years is 'how do you help your child pray?'  I think the question looms larg...

There are certain stories, like Joseph and Noah, that have myriads of picture books devoted to them.   When I was working as a children'...

If you are new to this space you might appreciate reading  Godly Play 1: What is Godly Play  and  Godly Play 2: Materials  before you read t...

Here are the rest of our Jesse tree ornaments for the year and a picture of the tree with three weeks worth on it.  The tree looks nice and...