At A Hen's Pace

She's a college girl now. She got a music scholarship, so she's been taking voice lessons, participating in choir, and singing wi...

Though the private Christian school that B16 and BC18 attended has been out for two weeks, B12, Chicklet8 and I have been pushing hard to co...

Besides the snow and the Super Bowl, what all is going on in our lives? Let's start with the oldest child and work our way down. Ban...

Well, I managed to get in that post on parenting teenagers while I could still say that I had three of them. But no more! Today, my olde...

I am so grateful for all the encouraging words of wisdom and blessing after my last post!  Thank you, friends. It seems that so much of pa...

Friends, in the comments of this post , many of you said you enjoyed my previous posts on parenting.  Which made me cringe, I must admit.  W...

I'm getting nervous. B19, in his first semester of college, is struggling.  (I wasn't sure about going public with this, but he ha...

Let it never be said that I am an uptight mother.  Or an obsessive-compulsive house-cleaner.  Or that I never let my kids do anything.  I ...

I can't believe that I just figured this out. Papa Rooster takes some pretty amazing pictures--and lots of them--more than I can keep ...

Pictures, or story?  I don't have time for both this morning. I guess we'll go for narrative--it seems like updates are overdue in m...

Today I signed over the title of Blondechick's car--yes, the one I was agonizing about buying just a few months ago--to a junkyard.  The...

...and that's about all I have time to say! Bantam11 is enrolled in an online public school, iQ Academy .  So far, so good!  He's ...

Bantam15 is back from camp.  Those ten days were life-changing, and I am in such a state of wonderment, joy and thanksgiving! God answered...

I feel like a hamster on an exercise wheel, running and running and never getting anywhere!   My to-do list seems to grow longer and longer ...

Blondechick and I sure had a great time visiting Wheaton College.  More accurately, she visited Wheaton; I visited with friends! And it wa...

What's new? Bantam19 just brought home his cap, gown, tassel and a box of graduation announcements, prompting me to call up the place th...

Writing about B19's birthday made me realize how long it's been since I've updated on the teens in our home! With his graduation...

Thank you, everyone, who's been doing just that, waiting on me to come back from my too-busy-to-blog break! I should do a birthday post ...