Shanspirations

Today in her bath my daughter (five) was singing, “I’m a little fish of God, I’m a little fish of God…”
I heard her and wondered what she meant, but whatever it was I knew it was sweet because she had just been asking many questions about a story in the Bible on Abraham and had [...]

When we went on vacation in May, my father (whom we were visiting) urged me to consider weight lifting for my back pain. I knew he had cured his own mid-back pain many years ago, but since I’ve tried strength training many times over the years, I had given up, and besides, with having [...]

My darling and I went on a family vacation recently (with our little girl, of course).  It involved a lot of driving and camping in lovely places southward, and visiting many of our friends and family.  One of the things we did while we drove was sing.
I have always loved group singing, the old-fashioned kind [...]

I stepped into the world of Little House on the Prairie as an 8 year old in a Tennessee library one school day when a kind librarian offered to help me find new books.  When she learned I had never read the “little house” books (nor known they existed), she led me to a low [...]

Anna had become fascinated with a little book called, “Go, Dog, Go.” It was silly, it was funny. It had lines like:
Stop, dogs, stop!
The light is red.
Go, dogs, go!
It’s green ahead.

She liked to read it a lot and her daddy had been reading it to her before bed nightly.
Now we were on our way [...]

I think I would have been passionately interested in this subject, How Not to Get Sick, for much of my life if I had even known it was possible to avoid getting sick. But I grew up thinking there was little or nothing one could do to avoid getting a cold or flu. [...]

I read this post on hospitality and really liked it. My husband and I have a heart for hospitality, but that entertaining part (as described in the post) is what I feel I am not good at! So this post made feel great because it indicated the entertaining isn’t what is necessary for [...]

Yesterday Anna turned two years old. Several weeks ago, I bought a blank children’s hardcover book for Anna so that I could make her a homemade storybook about her birthday.
I know she won’t be picky and the story needn’t be perfect, just something that she can enjoy for years to come. I am going [...]