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Category Archives: Large Family

Building Strong Sibling Relationships: 4 Moms of Many

amber kaitlin park

This week the 4 Moms of many,  are talking about sibling relationships, or how we deal with sharing, bullying and arguing among our children. I want to be honest about this topic because I think that many parents don’t know how beautiful sibling relationships can be. Much like the teen years, many parents have wrong…

Some Notes About Pregnancy #11

Kids at Suzanne's wedding

Before this pregnancy I had big plans: I wanted to do a series on health and natural living. I wanted to share our journey into making kefir, moving to all sourdough, using more natural cleaners and eating only whole foods traditionally prepared. For now I’ll point you to the site that gave us the oomph…

Encouraging Verses for Homeschooling: 4 Moms of Many

This week the 4 Moms of Many are sharing some verses or stories that have encouraged us in our homeschooling journey. The passage that explains both why we chose to home educate and dictates how we home educate is Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 You shall…

Coming August 2012

Coming August 2012

We are delighted to announce that God has blessed us with another precious gift. Baby #11 is due in August. We’d love prayers for our family during this time. I’ve been struggling with dehydration over the past several weeks and have required multiple rounds of IV fluids. Thanks for rejoicing and praying with us. You…

4 Moms Q & A: Only Littles, Bible Reading Attitudes and Read Aloud Interuptions

Today the 4 Moms of Many are answering your questions. Brianah asked this question on FB. It’s one that gets asked  frequently so probably deserves some more publicity,  “What did your day look like when you had all littles?“ Our first 8 children are all between 14 and 18 months apart, so by the time…

Managing Clothes for a Large Family: 4 Moms

children dressed for church

This week the 4 Moms of Many  are talking about organizing, shopping for and managing all those clothes. Managing clothing is one of my least favorite tasks. It seems that no sooner do all the children have a sufficient number of nice outfits that 7 of them will put holes in the knees of their ‘going-out’…

Bible Reading in 2012

Bible reading around the camp fire each morning

Our purpose in homeschooling is to fulfill our God-given responsibility to raise our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. One vital aspect of this training is for our children to know the Word of God. One way we accomplish this is that we spend time every day reading the Word of God….

Large Family Gift Shopping: 4 Moms

knit hat mittens scarf

The average American family, comprised of 3.14 people, spends $800-$900 on Christmas gifts each year. We don’t. We avoid much of the annual gift giving frenzy by keeping things a bit more simple. Here are some of our reasons: We don’t need all that stuff. We wish for the focus of Christmas to be on…

Holiday Traditions for the Whole Family

Nicholas (2) and Savannah (5)

It seems like the holidays are a time when every family has a plethora of special traditions. Here are some of our favorite, fun family traditions for the month of December: Marshmallow wars Christmas Mysteries- They keep everyone on their toes.  Santa’ hats – All the children wear them whenever we go out. It brings…

Colby Tales

Colby is five and Colby is just one of those children. He keeps us on our toes and always laughing. Remember when he pulled this amazing whopper?  and these fun Wordless posts;  here and here and here ? If you look through the ‘not me’ archives, you’ll see that he’s well represented. Here is my latest collection…