Just about every year we make a trip to my home state of Oklahoma. Our favorite place to make memories is the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, which includes a visit to… The Holy City of the Wichitas, a very special site for all of us, as it is where our family started… […]
Historic Medicine Park, Oklahoma’s First Resort
At the main entrance to the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge lies Medicine Park, a unique cobblestone community founded in 1908 as Oklahoma’s first tourism resort. Because this is only a 15-minute drive to my hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma, and we prefer to stay in unique places rather than hotels, it’s natural for us to rent a […]
Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, the oldest managed wildlife preserve in the United States, is a 59,020-acre preserve located about 20 miles northwest of Lawton in southwestern Oklahoma. It has protected unique wildlife habitats since 1901, when it was designated as a Forest Reserve by President William McKinley. In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt renamed it as a game preserve, and […]
Holy City of the Wichitas in Oklahoma
We have made it back from our incredibly hectic trip to visit our family in Southwest Oklahoma! Once upon a time, my husband thought there was nothing in Oklahoma except wind and flat land (and maybe some tepees), so I thought I’d spotlight our adventures in Oklahoma to show that, yes, there are things to do in […]
Christmas Wrap 2023
Another year down, ’23 in the book. What happened this year? Now let’s take a look! The start of the year is the best to begin. When the boys and their dad finished up at Bag End. (Bag End is the nickname for a tiny home we built for our sons who are going to […]
Spring Semester Read Alouds, Plans, & Schedules
Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12, NIV I tend to approach this time of year with caution. While part of numbering our days aright is planning well, part of numbering our days aright is letting go of those plans when God has something else in […]
Wrappin’ it up: Christmas Wrap 2020
Twenty-twenty has been quite a year to remember. Let’s recount our adventures from January to December. Discovery Park, Winter Jam, and David’s Fourteen All came before the days of mask quarantine. We visited a museum full of machine pinballs And hopped all around to Tennessee waterfalls. We toured Old Stone Fort while COVID we did […]
Mission: World Wonders in Action!
Have you ever wondered how things really turn out in other family’s homeschools? Does it really look like the utopian pictures on the front of the A Beka catalog? Perhaps it does in others’ homes, but… not us. The more I learn to accept that it won’t ever look like that in our home, the […]
A Pilgrimage to Plymouth
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod: They have left unstained what there they found, Freedom to worship God. – final stanza from “Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers” by Felicia Dorothea Hemans There are moments in my life when a veil is lifted as I learn a nugget of truth that […]