After being rescued from grave danger, David sang, “Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together.” (Ps 34:3) Throughout the Bible we are encouraged to praise God in times of joy, trust, confusion, understanding, sadness, and despair. We pray while we sing and sing while we pray and, obviously, the words that […]
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Screens and our Kids’ Mental Health, with Tips for Parents
We parents worry a bit about what screens may be doing to our kids but our worries are mostly about inappropriate videos, internet predators, and similar dangers and there are internet safety devices to take care of that. As for the rest, most kids have screens at a young age and all teens are glued […]
Harvest, Health, and Thanksgiving
We have been busy harvesting these weeks: raspberries, those delicious bits of goodness, as well as endless piles of tomatoes, a study full of apples, pails of sauerkraut fermenting on the counter, crispy fall salads, luscious melons, and so much more. Now that I have better balance, doing all these things is more possible. We […]
Harvesting and Homeschooling
Today I plan to freeze tomatoes, pick raspberries, and dry lemon balm—in the car of all places(!), something I learned from Traditional Cooking’s Dehydrating course. We also need to clean up windfall apples in our little apple orchard and, on top of that, there is schoolwork to do. This is a problem, because it is […]