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Tips for Gardening with Children | Guest Post by Melissa Norris
The Amish traditionally have large families with lots of children under foot. They work as a family unit while keeping up their farms, livelihoods, and homes. Children learn from a young age how to do...
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Leisure Time
I spend a lot of my leisure time watching sports—mainly soccer and lacrosse since those are what my daughters play. Although I haven’t managed to weave those games into any of my Amish stories, I have...
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Making Peanut Butter Cookies
Yesterday, I made peanut butter cookies for the first time in sixteen years. We first realized my daughter was allergic to peanut butter when she was around two. The peanut butter and graham snack...
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Generational Blessings
Whenever I visit an Amish family, I’m taken with the generational living arrangements. At one home, the mother and father and children still living at home have the big house and one of the married...
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Raising Kids With A Heart to Serve | Guest Post by Kristen Summers
Living close to a large Amish population allows us a great view of the Amish way of life. It is not uncommon for us to see horse-drawn buggies or laundry drying on an outdoor line. I am often amazed...
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Meet Mary Ann Kinsinger, Co-Author of the Adventures of Lily Lapp Series
There are many Amish fiction books on bookshelves, but what about Amish fiction for kids? Mary Ann Kinsinger and Suzanne Woods Fisher noticed this need in the publishing industry and wrote the...
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Back To School
Nearly September, back to school! I love this time of year. School supplies are on sale. There are new shoes, new clothes, new lunchboxes and the feeling of beginning and fresh starts. I am a little...
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Win an iPad Mini Back to School Pack and a Year’s Worth of School Supplies...
Go back to school with Lily Lapp! Suzanne Woods Fisher is celebrating the final book in the Adventures of Lily Lapp series, A Surprise for Lily, with a “Back to School with Lily Lapp” giveaway. Enter...
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See Our Earth through Little Eyes
Our kids and grandkids will inherit the Earth God created for humankind to enjoy. How many of us take the time to see the natural beauty He made? And if we don’t see it ourselves, how can we share it...
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Grace in Parenting
Obviously our kids aren’t perfect I tend to be judgmental. I admit it. I struggle to stop comparing myself to other women in appearance, status, and in parenting. I see other women in their mid...
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4 Things to Pray for Your Kids
Praying for My Kids. Sometimes as a mom, I get overwhelmed with all I should be doing for my kids’ spiritual development. I should be reading the Bible with my kids, teaching them Scripture, training...
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