The other day I ordered our first-grade curriculum. I cannot believe it’s that time already!! We are not quite done with our kindergarten year yet, but I wanted to get started with preparing as we plan to homeschool through most of the summer so that we can take a...
It seems as if I am only doing big life updates right now, after months of a quieter (but still busy) season. The night that I scheduled our pregnancy announcement post (read here), we got a call about another placement. Call us crazy (we probably are), but we now...
Well kind of! If you see us in person, you’ve known for quite a while because, well, I show on the early side. But we are officially adding to our Denner gang this fall! We are all absolutely thrilled. Well, Kayden doesn’t really understand yet…but he’s OBSESSED with...
It has been one full year since we’ve been officially certified as a foster home. And as our agency advocate said, “You finished out your first full year with a bang!” I laughed, because she isn’t wrong. And I laughed because the alternative would be tears; although...
This week has been a wild ride…but before this week, things had been fairly quiet here. I had started this post last week: My heart feels so full. I’m currently sitting on a chair at the end of our driveway while the sun shines down on me. Kayden plays in the sandbox...
“Books make great gifts…they have the whole world inside of them.” -Neil Gaiman Reading has long been one of my favorite pastimes and it’s been a great joy to share my love of books with my children. It’s never too early to start reading to your little ones; it is a...
I’ve always loved to write, but there are seasons when writing has been more challenging for me. Such as when I am feeling completely exhausted from lack of sleep. I want to write to encourage others and to share fun tips and ideas; but also just to share this journey...
As I write this, we are driving back from Florida. The journey home from somewhere always feels longer than the journey there (is it just me?). It doesn’t help that we are leaving 80 degrees to go back to the start of winter weather. I realized that I don’t always...
When fostering comes up, this is the most common objection that I hear. “I could never foster, I would get too attached and it would break my heart.” And honestly I get it. Right now my heart is still hurting over a placement of only 4 months, that we knew most likely...
Lately our new home feels extra big. And a bit empty. Many of the things we had out when we first moved have been put away in the closet or basement. This blog post has taken me a long time to write. I have changed and erased and started over many times. A few weeks...