When I read this on Raising Arrows this morning, I thought it was a really good, thoughtful idea. So, here’s the mom I want to be: I want to teach the things that are essential. I want my children to be equipped as saints. Period. Part of this incorporates many things that may at first seem unrelated (like, say, math),…
Our house has recently suffered a monster infestation. Apparently, there are monsters in the garage, monsters in the bathroom, even monsters in the living room. Or so our two-year-old tells me. She is deeply afraid. Every time she exclaims,”but there’s a monster!” and refuses to go into a room (or refuses to be left alone in one), the nice, pat…
If you had told me when E was just born–and I hardly knew how to make it through Seth’s 12-hour shifts alone by myself–that I would one day be watching three children aged two and under all by myself for a week, repeatedly, I would have told you you were crazy. (Primarily because I was a brand-new mom with no…