I got it out the week my sister came. The two-inch binder filled with every single print issue of the YLCF Journal, The P31 — and Wonderful Books for Girls, The P.K. News, and Kittie’s Korner. I wanted a sixteen-year-old’s opinion on what was relevant to today’s teenagers. She gave the answers in the combination of sticky notes and laughter as she paged through the notebook…
Gretchen
A random redhead who loves the Lord, her farmer husband, their curly-haired little ones, reading, writing, pictures, and chocolate.
Loving the Little Years
review and giveaway
Two potty accidents, a spilled bowl of oatmeal, no morning naps, and I’m finally stepping into the shower at 11 a.m. I take a deep breath and tell myself, “This is the new one.”
It’s just one of the memorable anecdotal reminders for moms in Rachel Jankovic’s new book Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches… She’s a young mom of young kids. She doesn’t pretend to have it all figured out. She doesn’t tell you how to parent. Instead, she challenges other moms as she challenges herself: adjust your attitude, change your perspective.
this Mother’s Day…
This Mother’s Day, two of us here on the YLCF team are celebrating even more than usual, with the arrival of new little ones in our homes!
Yet, this Mother’s Day, as I hold my newborn son close, my heart aches for the other mothers that come to mind…
[lots of links--a bouquet of encouragement for moms]
why mommies need Jesus every second…
People tell me my children are good. But those are the people sitting in front of us at church. I know how many times they have gotten up or acted up.
But I don’t want to be raising my children to look good. I want to raise them to want to be good.
I know how little good it will do in the long run if they are “sitting down on the outside but standing up on the inside.”
sweet spring
I get a sneak peek of spring each year. We usually go visit my family right before planting season begins here on the farm. In their moist and mild climate, the daffodils are blooming to greet us, the grass is green, and the sheep are lambing. We come home to the last vestiges of snow…
2011 March of Books Reviews
It’s been quite the March of Books. Some of us have blogged about little but books this month, which is no chore for a book-loving blogger! Especially when we got to show off our favorite copies of our favorite books.
But now it’s time to wrap it all up by sharing the links to all the books we’ve been reviewing on our blogs this month…
When Marriage Meets Grace
Love That Lasts
I read a lot of books about relationships in my late teens and early twenties. Enough to know that they aren’t all helpful and encouraging. And they most definitely are not all must-reads. When I got married, there were the few books I didn’t pack — the ones I kept handy for reference as I…
The Chasm at the Edge of Eternity
When I opened Randy Alcorn’s latest book, The Chasm: A Journey to the Edge of Life, I had some idea of what I’d find. The Chasm, I knew, would be the gulf that separates us from God — and the bridge over it, the Cross.
But The Chasm is a lot more than just a little book expounding on that apt illustration. It is a modern-day version of Pilgrim’s Progress in the style of Lewis, Tolkien, and Peretti…
Books About Books
I have a special section for them on my bookshelves: books about books. As if I don’t have enough books already, I have books full of more book titles to find!
There’s Books Children Love: A Guide to the Best Children’s Literature by Elizabeth Wilson. And of course, Jim Trelease’s ever-popular The Read-Aloud Handbook, along with Terry Glaspey’s Book Lover’s Guide to Great Reading: A Guided Tour of Classic & Contemporary Literature…
you read what you are
I was at another meeting of homeschool moms. Tonight, the discussion topic was a book that only half of us had read.
I hadn’t read it. And I’ll admit, I was slightly prejudiced against the book and the authors.
But listening to one mom, I thought it sounded like a fabulous book on parenting.
Hearing another, though, I was afraid it might be filled with too many rules and not enough grace.
I laughed as I concluded that you could easily think you were hearing reviews of ten very different books when in a room full of ten homeschool moms who were talking about only one book…
