The girls and I have long discovered the joys of audio books. We got into them when we started homeschooling. Our curriculum of choice, Sonlight. needs a lot of reading, and read-alouds. With my read-aloud experience limited to, “Mr. Brown is upside down” and “I want to be your personal penguin. I want to walk […]
HP Bulletin #407
April 30, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The HPs have been busy. Or rather, the adult HPs have been like tourbillons (pardon the French–I miss using that word) while the kids have been having an extremely light school load (which they will need to make up for soon!). After Breeze’s Soapy Booper handmade soap business that helped keep us afloat last Christmas, […]
Review: Is There Anything Better Than Candy? Box-Tract
September 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
This paper pumpkin candy holder (say it ten times fast!) from Let the Little Children Come is the most unusual–but fun!–product we’ve reviewed so far. Officially titled the Is There Anything Better Than Candy Box-Tract, this tiny treat box is actually a tool to help share the Gospel with children. The box tracts come […]
HP Bulletin # 346
July 20, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The past few weeks have been eventful. Rather, they have been uneventful, save for one eventful event, which rendered the rest of the time unable to support any other events of significance. Did that befuddle you? No worries, I’m as fuddled as can be too. The Amazing Aling Lourdes, or AL for short, our mistress […]
A Tribute to My Mom Who Rocks (and a Mother’s Day Giveaway!)
May 10, 2017 by 1 Comment
Note: There really is a giveaway! Scroll down if you want to skip to that! I remember going with my mom to her aerobics class. She’d be in her neon spandex leotards and tights, with matching legwarmers, in a roomful of women in similar outfits, and I would try to stay on the periphery of […]
HP Bulletin #287
April 10, 2017 by Leave a Comment
It’s been quiet around here. Mostly because the kids are off on some sort of midterm vacation at my sister-in-law’s house, and have been there for over a week. The Hubby and I can hear each other’s thoughts. It’s that quiet (mostly our thoughts are what is there to snack on and what should we watch tonight […]
The Bed
March 20, 2017 by 1 Comment
Breeze had been praying for a bed for nearly a year. Every night, a bed of her own was always on the list of things that she prayed for. Ever since she outgrew her crib (at 10 months, I think), Breeze and Raine have been sharing the day bed. It actually isn’t that bad—the three […]
5 Budget-Friendly Kids Play Room Ideas
June 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
It’s a simple fact that kids love to play and they will never have enough of it. Besides school playgrounds, they should be provided with a nice place to do so at home as well. Bedroom and the sitting room may serve your kids well for that purpose, but having their own playroom is a […]
Can You Afford to be a Stay-at-Home-Mom?
June 16, 2011 by 24 Comments
Being a SAHM allows moms the luxury of spending time with their kids, doing fun stuff like whipping up a batch of cookies in the middle of a weekday. I guess the decision for me to be stay-at-home-mom—SAHM in mommy lingo—was more by default than anything else. I have already been working from home as […]
