by Valerie Steimle | May 10, 2015 | Valerie Steimle: Strengthening Families
Mother’s Day is today and in my book all mothers should be honored, regardless if you have raised one child or twenty. You are still a mother even if you’ve never given birth to any children but raised them just the same. Anyone with responsibility for any children...
by Britt Kelly | Feb 19, 2015 | Britt Kelly: Learning at Home
1/12th of a teaspoon. Less than half a milliliter of fluid. That’s how much honey one honeybee produces in it’s entire life. Honeybees only live a month or two. They work approximately 16 hours a day. They literally work themselves to death. They spend their entire...
by Tudie Rose | Dec 5, 2014 | Tudie Rose--Marriage
We all have to eat and to provide the necessities of life for our families, and that means at least one person must go to work. Balancing work with marriage and family is not always easy. How much time away from our loved ones is necessary for the collective good? How...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Jul 9, 2014 | Home and Family
When my first child was a toddler, she decided to have a meltdown in the middle of the grocery store. After all, what’s the fun in having one in private? She threw herself to the floor and began wailing. Irritated shoppers all stared at me or complained, and some...
by Jane Thurston | Jun 19, 2014 | Jane Thurston: Down Syndrome Days
Mothers know things about their children. Call it intuition or inspiration, there are times when a mother just knows. Three years before my unborn son was diagnosed with Down syndrome I had a sense that it was coming. I had a baby boy that was normal and fine and...
