Super Powers!

Super Powers!

This week the people of Moldova, the country in which we are currently residing, celebrated Women’s Day. Isn’t that a wonderful concept? It might be one of my new favorite holidays. So in honor of Women’s Day, and because at this point in the school-year we homeschooling moms tend to start dragging and feeling rather…

Heart Teaching
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Heart Teaching

I sat in the kitchen in disbelief. How many times had I already explained certain concepts? Over and over and over. And still, the problem was answered wrong. Frustration ensued. In me, and in the kids, and very quickly any possible real learning was now lost. I closed the book and declared a break. As…

Life Changes
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Life Changes

I looked anxiously around the bus terminal, eyeing every entrance.  Would he show up for one final goodbye?  Part of me wanted a scene a la Bogart/Bacall, the one with the long looks and the even longer embraces.  I had told him of my plans to relocate and although he was not exactly thrilled, he…

A New Day
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A New Day

A New Year … and it’s a whole long year ahead.  A year is made up of single days.  We receive them as a gift, just one of them at a time.  Delightfully packaged in this world created just for us.  The Bible tells us in Matthew, . “Take therefore no thought for the morrow,…