Welcome to Women With Intention Wednesdays!
Welcome to another week of Women With Intention Wednesdays! Is it just me or did this last week go by really fast?
We have successfully made it through our first full week of summer vacation! When my kids are home I love to take advantage of that “together time” by doing fun things as a family which includes anything from summer activities like the swimming pool to hopscotch to gardening. However, I also want to keep their little minds working so I always add in some home school type activities into our routine.
This year is no exception and I am very excited to not only be doing regular schooling activities to keep them active with math and reading but we’re also working on something more important…building character and the best place to learn about character comes from the Bible.
I was very graciously given Lads & Ladies of Wisdom by Kathie Morrissey of The Character Corner in exchange for an honest review on her curriculum. (I’m sure many of you have visited her great posts that she links up at Women With Intention Wednesdays each week.)
The purpose of Lads & Ladies of Wisdom curriculum is to teach children the importance of wisdom based on the book of Proverbs. This is designed for grades 1-6 in elementary school. (There is a different curriculum called Lads & Ladies of Virtue for kids in preschool or early elementary school if you are interested!)
There are 20 weekly lessons and each lesson includes:
- a weekly memory verse
- fun activities to reinforce the lessons
- a daily prayer
- Bible verses to read each day
- “keys” to help remember the verses
- and there is an optional activity book
Being a very busy on-the-go mom there are several things that I really enjoy about this curriculum.
- It’s organized for me. There are very few things I need to do to prepare and I’m ready to go.
- The lessons are short and planned out which makes them easy to complete in a busy day usually taking 5-10 minutes!
- Even though the lessons are built for 1st through 6th grade use, I’m also able to include my younger 2 children in on our learning experience and we’ve had some really good family discussions.
If you are a mom like me, who’d like to encourage her children’s learning with Biblical knowledge and build their character I would definitely recommend visiting The Character Corner and checking out Lads & Ladies of Wisdom. It’s inexpensive, easy to use, and is a great way to introduce or expand your children’s Biblical knowledge!
Sometimes even with the best parenting intentions and guidance, our children can stray from God. This week I’m featuring Tina of Mom Is Forever with her encouraging post Parenting the Prodigal Child .
Here is what you will find at Women With Intention Wednesdays:
- This is a link up party where you come to encourage one another, have fun, and share your best posts to help women live their best life!
- In other words, any post that you have written about Christian living, homemaking, relationships, healthy living, living a frugal life or that helps another woman can be included in this link up! Please just keep them family friendly (I reserve the right to remove anything that I feel isn’t appropriate).
- This link up is beneficial for every woman! Whether you are a blogger or a reader, this is one you won’t want to miss! I’m very excited to offer this link up as a place to not only build new relationships between bloggers but also by providing an awesome resource of information for my readers!
Here are the rules of this link up:
- You must link directly to your post (no homepages, please).
- Please link up no more than 2 posts each week and please do not link up the same post week after week.
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For every link you add, please visit the link before you and one other of your choice. If your links are consecutive visit the blogger before you and your choice for the 2nd link. It’s impossible to build relationships when no one communicates! I’ve had a few bloggers email me who haven’t had any clicks and there were more last week than any before. Please don’t link and run!
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Community building question of the week: What is one of your favorite summer memories?
I used to go visit several of my Aunts for a fun mini “summer vacation” when I was younger! I was fortunate to do some traveling with them and also to have some very fun and unique experiences.
When I think about summer as a child, I just remember lots and lots of freedom and exploring. There was a wooded area with a river running through across the street from my parent’s house. My friends and I would walk the trails, wade in the shallow water, paintball, ride dirt bikes, and just be. Those are my best memories. The funny thing is that it makes me a slightly panicky to think about my children doing some of the things we did! We all survived, though!
I’ve caught myself with those same thoughts regarding my own kids! 🙂 Good thing they’re resilient!
My favorite summer memories are going to Oceanside CA with my family and friends:)
That sounds like a lot of fun! 🙂
Sounds like a really great book. Thank you for hosting this link-up! 🙂
Sounds like a great book! Thank you for hosting this link-up. 🙂
Thanks for linking up, Stacey!
Most definitely, going to our family cabin! My parents were both teachers, so our summer was free and we would spend a majority of the summer there.
Now that I’m grown up…I only get there a couple times a summer. 🙁
It is seriously one of my goals to own a cabin at the lake just for family memories like that! How fun, Emily! 🙂
Hi there! This is my first time linking up here, but I love all the things everyone is posting! So inspirational 🙂 My favorite summer memory is hard to find because I have so many! Summer was my ultimate favorite time of year. I would have to say waiting for my Dad to come home from work so we could all go outside to play since it stayed light for so long. My brother is 7 years younger than me, so we would all go outside and play catch, run around until dark. The fireflies would start coming out around then too, so we were always engulfed with twinkling lights and stars overhead 🙂
We loved catching fireflies! Thanks for linking up with us! 🙂
One of my favorite summer memories are the camping trips our family takes each year. There is just something about sitting around a campfire, sharing stories, laughing together and time without phones and social media. We hope to camp a lot this summer as our family is in a transition season between homes.
Thanks again for hosting such a great link-up!
There is something almost magical without cell phones, internet, and social media. I love it!
Trips with my grandparents. They’d steal me and a sibling or two away for a day and we would go for bike rides at the lake, walks on trails, or camping for a weekend! Nothing like the peace and joy of getting in their quiet vehicle, laughing together, and driving places that always felt new and exciting!
That sounds so fun! 🙂
Summer. Just saying the word, even in the dead of winter, makes me HAPPY. Summer is my FAVORITE time of year and there are so many wonderful memories of summers from long ago and only a few years back — on July 18, 2011 I eloped with my wonderful hubby with the warm sun shining on Cape Ann, MA, and that’s VERY SPECIAL memories…but there are also those times, now far away, when my babies were little boys…and how very fast those precious summers sped by. Here’s a story I wrote that you might like now that summer is upon us again…BLESSINGS AND HUGS and thanks for the #WomenWithIntention linkup!
http://sheilakimball.com/2013/06/12/the-one-thing-that-slips-away-faster-than-summer/
Love it, Sheila! 🙂
Thanks for hosting the link up each week, Jenny!
Thank you for linking up! 🙂
Hi Jenny. Thank you so much for featuring “Parenting the Prodigal Child.” I look forward to reading lots of great and encouraging content from your linkups.
Tina, you’re very welcome! 🙂
One of my favorite memories would be visiting family. Our immediate family grew up together 1000 miles away from any relatives. So, as soon as summer would begin my mom and dad would pack us up for our annual summer roadtrip to the Northeast to visit family. We would stop at the same restaurant for breakfast each year, sing songs, play games and so much more. I can actually still think about it today as if it were yesterday 🙂 It may be one reason why I LOVE roadtrips.
BTW Jenny…I absolutely LOVE the WWI Link Up!!! It truly has to be one of, if not the best one out there. The women who link up are amazing. It feels like such a community. Thanks for hosting such an “intentional” great link up 🙂
Oh those are great memories (and I’m thinking “HOW can I keep my 5 from arguing going to Grandma’s 3 minutes from our house lol!) I love traditions! Thank you, Tia for the sweet words! 🙂 That warms my heart!
One of my favorite summer memories as a child was going camping as a family. There was a little store there at the campground where they sold camping supplies and penny candy. Every year, my Mom challenged my two sisters and I to collect as many bottle caps as we could during the week that we went camping. At the end of the week, she counted our bottle caps (usually anywhere between 50-100 each) and gave us that many pennies to buy penny candy in the little store. It was so exciting as a child; I cherish those memories.
Rebekah, those are the memories I want to create for my kids! How great! 🙂
One of my favorite summer memories is currently happening right now and I wrote about it in my blog post. I’m working at a summer camp this summer called Victory Junction, which is a serious fun camp for children with special needs. I am already being so touched by the other counselors and I cannot wait to see what the Lord does through this summer!
Hanha, what a wonderful experience for you and for the campers! 🙂