My family loves music and our little ones are no exception. From the time he was very small, Cedar loved to bop around to music and he had surprisingly good rhythm for a baby. As he got older and more mobile, such “dancing” evolved into assorted hops and jumps and spins. Anything with a beat…
Jessica Telian
A wife and mama who loves her life of learning to know her Father, loving her amazing husband and babies, and keeping her little mountain cottage with green gables.
Receiving Jesus
It had been a rather hard evening. After two busy days with only too-short car naps, we had some very tired kids. A very fussy baby and a toddler who would start throwing a tantrum at the slightest provocation. And Mommy’s attitude wasn’t the best either. I was very ready for bedtime, but dreading it…
What Women Fear: review and giveaway
I’ve always struggled with fear. When I was a little girl, it was the thought that E.T. might come bursting through our roof and take me away. As a young teen, I was terrified that the Bubonic Plague would come again and we would all die a horrible death from it. (Can you tell I…
Of Anne, Kilmeny, and Lanier’s Books
What imaginative girl has not been captivated by the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery? With a loving eye and a ready pen she gave to the world a tiny island off the coast of New Brunswick and a little band of girl heroines that have delighted the souls of ‘kindred spirits’ the world over. How…
Freckles (review and giveaway)
When the hills and lower mountains grew mossy-coloured in late spring, I reveled in it. And to celebrate, I usually read some Gene Stratton Porter. Her descriptions of the verdant swamps and woods of the Midwest always added to the general fresh and green feeling of those few months of spring.
Seasons of Love
It all started with re-reading old chats and e-mails from Aaron’s and my courtship and engagement days… It was fun and brought back many lovely memories from that hard but beautiful time.
But then the next day, between the into-everything toddler and the fussy baby
a love of cross-culture travel
When I was eighteen, I went to India for two months… About eight months later, I moved to Thailand to assist an older missionary couple… Then, when I was twenty-two, I moved to New Zealand to live with some friends and help them with their four children five and under…
A crunchy mama
From the moment we found out we were pregnant with our first little one, we knew we wanted to have a homebirth. Many of of our close friends had had their babies at home and since there weren’t any factors prohibiting it (high-risk pregnancy, etc.), it was almost a given.
But then…the unforeseen happened.
