Today I’m sharing my post from this week at Simple Homeschool, where I pull back the curtain on our school plan for next year: afterschooling. What the heck is it, anyway? From the post: “It’s almost silly that this even needs a name, in many ways, but afterschooling is simply homeschool, after school. It can look [...]

Written by contributor Shaun Groves. Just six of the zillion things adoption has taught me: 1. Generosity is simple. In 2007, I visited an Ethiopian orphanage, trying not to make eye contact with any of the little ones around me in need of a father. I’ve always found avoidance to be the surest way to [...]

Written by contributor Megan Tietz of SortaCrunchy. Last month, I went to Nashville for the BlissDom blogging conference. I wanted to bring home something for each of my girls, a little treat from my trip. The first day of the conference offered me the chance to shop the delightful wares at the Handmade Marketplace. I [...]

Tate and I went out of town last week, and she had a ball spending most of her afternoons playing with friends and running in the sunshine. But in the evenings she’d wind down, and as grown-up as she seems to be lately (she’s 7 going on 17), her one request before slipping on her [...]