It is time! That fantastic time of year to celebrate fathers!- Daddies and Grandpas! For me these very names bring the warmest connotations! What do you think of when you think of father? I am sure for each of us it is individual pertaining to our own experiences. But I also believe that for everyone of us there is a connected, universal meaning that comes with the word father. Whether it is Continue Reading
How Do You Get A Tooth Out? – Is That Blood?!
We invite you to join 'kid world' as our Zoie Grace, just turned seven, realizes she's just at the beginning of her road to 'real'with one of those life-growing experiences, her tooth falling out! My brother happened to catch this big childhood event on film! As you witness her 'woose toof', you may ask yourself, "Is that blood?" Or cry out "This is weally scary!" Proceed with caution as some Continue Reading
Mother’s Day extended…
My heart is so full as I write this! I would love to fill yours up too! It's SO HAPPY! There are MANY challenges to parenting, many exclusive to mothering, we are ALL familiar with that. And then there are many MORE rewards, many greater than we could even imagine!! (Sometimes we lose sight of that.) My kids have been stuck on a song from their last choir concert. It wasn't a favorite Continue Reading
Music Memories with my Mom
From my earliest memories I can remember with such warmth, happiness (and detail still!) my Mom playing the piano and my sister (2 years younger) and I RUNNING to the piano to sing with her. Mom was not an expert pianist, far from it she would admit, but it did not matter in the least, we LOVED to sing beside her as she picked out the tunes. Simple songs that taught lasting lessons in their Continue Reading
Celebrate Sharing!
With a large family you share almost everything. But that's when you find that joy multiplies in the sharing. When you finally just surrender what you think was yours, realizing it wasn't yours in the first place (just as I remind my kids I gave 'it' for them in the first place, I expect them to share 'it', I try to remember God gave 'it' to me in the first place, I need to share 'it ' - Continue Reading
Twin Talk
Anna and Emily are pretty good at sharing the conversation... most of the time. The key to successful communication? Listen with love. Let us know how you celebrate talk time in your family today! Love, the Hoffman Crew [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iPCslT_ptI] Continue Reading