By Jessica Wolstenholm
The thick envelopes in the mailbox brought about great excitement as each welcomed my children to their third season of summer camp. We praise God for Camp War Eagle and how it has blessed our children’s lives, but I remember the apprehension I felt deciding if it was a good choice for our children. With […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
My oldest daughter is in third grade. And in our state, third grade means standardized testing. And in every state, it seems, standardized testing means stress and panic and pressure — for teachers, kids, and parents alike. Before this year I thought the scariest parts of spring were tornadoes and allergy attacks. Based on what […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
A few months ago I attended a parenting workshop at my church, during which a mother of adult children shared her favorite tips. There was no particular order to them—it was simply a list of pointers she wished she had known early on—but one of them stood out to me: Don’t freak out. […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
Looking for Easter coloring pages? We’ve put together a list of our favorite Easter coloring pages from around the web. Celebrate Easter with Minno Get access to 90 minutes of Easter content plus our Easter Family Guide full of coloring pages, activities, and a family devotional to help your kids understand the love and sacrifice […]
By Christine Bailey
“Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He has made. Can you […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
Taking care of an infant presents some very unique challenges. There is something about having to meet the needs of a crying baby at all hours of the day and night that sands down your stamina. Add in a toddler with a propensity for whining and exercising her autonomy and a kindergartner who acts like […]
By Christine Bailey
Just when we were really embracing winter, spring seems to have come early this year. Bradford Pear trees budding at the end of February in Tennessee? Unheard of! Yet, there’s no stopping those buds from bravely pushing their heads through the wet soil, and before March 20th even arrives, spring has taken our hands and […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
Spring is in the air and along with it comes the promise of longer days. For some parents it is a challenge to keep their children engaged in daylight activities once the cozy early winter nights disappear. For other parents their main challenge is getting their little ones to sleep even though it is still […]
By Jessica Wolstenholm
We have a calendar that hangs on our kitchen wall, and as a type-A, extroverted personality – I pride myself on a full and overflowing schedule. Or at least I did, until I realized how unhealthy that can be for my family. I took a step back from the calendar overload and spent some time […]
By Christine Bailey
After living in three different homes in less than a year-and-a-half, our family is finally putting down roots. At the end of 2015, we dismantled our lives of over a decade in urban Dallas and decided to move to middle Tennessee (just south of Nashville) where I had previously lived in college and as a […]