The Grass Isn’t Greener—How to Love the Green, Green Grass of Home. Now.

We’ve all heard the saying about how the grass isn’t really greener on the other side. We usually think of it in terms of what we have versus what someone else has. But it’s also good to remember when comparing our current stage of life with that of the past or future. I want to encourage you to think about how to love the “green grass” that’s right in front of you. In your home. Right now.

The Other Side
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The Seven C’s

A practical strategy to regularly cover the basics of “adulting”

My daughters are nearing adulthood, and even though they have been homeschooled, which by design allows us to cover life-skills, character lessons, and spiritual training simultaneously with academic subjects, deficiencies happen, seemingly particularly in life skills: the stuff that is necessary, but often gets brushed aside as unimportant.

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