Category: straddle parenting

Mathäus had been gone a handful of days when we hit our first scheduling conundrum. We had set his first home visit two weeks out,…

There’s been a subtle shift in our home since Mathäus left for school— our family has become somewhat more centered on the younger inhabitants. We…

Dear homeschooling families,  For three years, my wife has planted sunflowers with the hope of watching them grow into a sunflower house for the children. …

France won the World Cup, and my 5-year-old son cried. Not just cried, but sobbed. 

This week marks our two-year anniversary of moving to and starting Floating Axe Farm. As we pulled into the driveway for the first time with most…

I’m not going to lie— elementary science experiments are not my forte. Oh, we do them. But my enthusiasm for them has decidedly waned over…

Experienced moms of many told me there would be a tipping point, a moment somewhere along the way where the tide would turn and I…

Friday rolled around perhaps sooner than I expected, and much sooner than I thought I could possibly endure. Here we were, getting dressed in clothes…

People ask what it’s like to have kids in their twenties and twos, what it looks like to have college kids sharing space with toddlers,…

We talk a lot about legacy at my house. Not so much the financial concept of legacy, but the handing down of a strong Christian…