Good Morning, !✨Bible Verse of the MonthThere were so many things happening last month (July) with the Name the Colt, the Flash Fiction and Look-a-like contest, and the Voting for the Jenny Grant covers that the Bible verse of the month completely s...

Check this giveaway out, !I am honored that my book was chosen to join New Classics Study Guides, a curated collection of outstanding middle grade and YA books written by Christians. The authors all offer a free study guide for homeschool parents lik...

Good Morning, !This email is jampacked with two creative opportunities this month: writing and art! First off is the ever-popular Flash Fiction. The response has been more than I ever hoped for. Your 1,000-word stories are a delight to me, my judge,...

Happy Summer, !Here's some fun trivia. Do you remember the Stepping Stones book, Andi Dreams of Gold? My grandson Kevan modeled Cory. Back in May (May 30th), he was married to a delightful Christian (homeschooled!) young lady, Anne. Guess what? Her f...

Happy July, !I hope you all had a delightful Fourth of July last weekend and celebrated our country's 250th birthday of Independence. Ours was quiet. "Fires" are in the air. We saw smoke the other day and heard the helicopters circling. There is a sm...

🎆Happy Fourth of July!🎇Many of you are no doubt heading out for this very special 250th Anniversary Fourth of July weekend, but Mr. M and I are not. No, sirree! (like Andi would say). We are sitting in the quiet Ponderosa pine forests of the Okanog...

Greetings!I'm so glad summer is here. My garden is growing! My corn is up! So are my beans, carrots, cilantro, potatoes, and onions. Yippee! They didn't freeze. And I'm trying an experiment this year. SWEET POTATOES! I love sweet potato fries and wan...

🔎 Do You See My Writing Books in the Corner?👆There they are: my two writing workbooks . . . peeking out of the corner on the left-hand side of this image. Bear with me, friends, because I'm in way "over my head."My digital study guides and lapbooks...

I wanted to start out with our Bible verse for the month of June. I love this verse, and I learned it long ago in a . . . song. Scripture songs are absolutely the very best way to memorize Scripture. Sometimes the words differ a bit from the translat...

FLASH FICTION (and) LOOK-A-LIKE CONTESTNothing's ever easy! If you will believe this, most of the responses to the Contest Survey a couple weeks ago ended up with voting straight down the middle (like 50% vs. 46%) for every question I asked except on...