Are you teaching a child about time? This analog clock craft will give you a hands-on resource to use to provide your visual learner a...

Are you looking for a cheat sheet your child can use while they adjust to learning the difference between AM and PM? Do they find it...

We've had multiple deaths in our family over the last couple weeks. We've battled and are battling illness, and I have lost count of...

This is mostly for other men, specifically fathers, because as men a lot of times we don’t like to ask for help. We want to appear to be...

We all know the fast food lines are long and service is crazy everywhere right now. Shipping is never on time, and everyone's nerves are...

I hope this blesses you. I will be preaching on this more later in the month. In the Gospel of John, Jesus makes 7 "I Am" statements. ...

Join us for our Candlelight Christmas Service! All are welcome! Sunday, December 20th Location: The Rotary Club 205 Branch St Elm City,...

God is showing me over and over lately just how much He has done to prepare me for and protect me from... so many things. All along the...

I think this says it all; there is no need for a long blog post to go with it. Hate will always lash out at love, because love never...

I made a half-pot of coffee yesterday morning, went to work in the yard, and never even touched it. Seeing it now made me realize that...

Have you ever worked really hard on a meal that smelled great, looked so appetizing you couldn’t wait to eat it, and then, when you sat...

Zoe is graduating and we are so happy for her! She will be attending NC Wesleyan College in the fall, majoring in psychology. She has...

I feel light! We are reaching a point in our year that I love, slightly earlier than usual. Much of the curriculum, that I spend the...

I had a sweet moment tonight. Jakob came into my room while I was reading and studying the Bible...

The caterpillar, not the butterfly, teaches us that growth doesn’t always look like a total transformation, but it is still progress!

Do you find yourself working on the same personality issue year after year? Don’t be discouraged. For one, you are still trying and that...

One of the many beautiful wonders of the North Carolina coast are the Banker Horses living along the barrier islands of the Outer Banks. ...

It was God's providence that brought Joseph out of his cell to use the gift God gave Joseph to make him second to Pharaoh in the land of...

America is beautiful; America is not perfect. Nothing is perfect, no one is perfect, no place is perfect. In fact, perfection is...

This simple tool can be used to teach your children how to most easily locate foundational parts of speech in a sentence. It is not...

Too many people end up frustrated and exhausted from the stress of trying to please God through work that isn’t really necessary. From...

Self Pity has to be one of the most successful tricks the enemy uses to defeat God's children. I don't particularly know why, but there...

Online math games are a fun way to add variety into a living math approach. They can be used as rewards, review, or even an introduction...

Today was the perfect day for us to go to the beach. About halfway through the day the tide began to go out and left us with a huge open spa

I understand now (after 3 years of hs) why the first thing others told me about homeschooling was not to even consider my first year as...

I am publishing a story written my daughter, Willow Branstetter, so that family and friends may enjoy it. She has been working on...

The sins we struggle with today are really no different than the sins Israel struggled with so often in Scripture. The biggest of them...

"And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise." ~ Luke 6:31 This is not just a recommendation on how to treat...

We took this picture on our honeymoon. Our first look at this skyline together as a married couple. It was February 18th, 2001. It is...

Priorities matter. Our priorities should be ordered in agreement with scripture, and we should keep them in order. Knowing what our...

Make Your Own Baby Food! I have three children and I have nursed all three. My first two children however transitioned to store bought...

Just another everyday experience in walking with God: This morning as I was waking up I started to think about my doctor appointment...

I took my girls out for a day of strawberry picking at Deans Farm in Wilson, NC today. They enjoyed some homemade ice cream and berries...

We took a walk through Battle Park in Rocky Mount, NC together today with my new camera I received for Christmas. I have to learn how to...

Recognize this house? It's the house used in the movie "Nights in Rodanthe" from the Nicholas Sparks book. Can you imagine going to bed...

Maybe I am a little different; a little odd. That's fine. I feel like an old person trapped in a young person’s body and I always have....

The kids were out of school for a day last week and the weather was great so it was a day for walking the trails at Battle Park for us! ...

We probably just saw our last frost for the winter. Now everything is green and the roses are blooming. There are rose bulbs on every...

Oh my goodness! How many times is the magic number that I remind my children that a mess doesn't have to be their doing for them to...

I have two little girls, ages 10 and 6, and one little boy on the way. We are a family of 5 and by the end of May we will fully realize...