Shirley’s Prepackaged Crafts

Why do you want to stay home?  Are you just a mom?  You homeschool?  Those questions from someone truly wondering about our choices can lead to some interesting conversations.  From others, those questions can leave us questioning if we’re making a good decision.

Edith Schaeffer in her book, What Is A Family? answers one of those questions.  Each chapter is basically a response she thought of after the face-to-face conversation.  It’s an encouraging book.

In one of those chapters Edith talks of a mother’s opportunity to be a curator of a museum.  Because you are there with your children, you are able to keep memories.  Some of us do it by taking photos or videos.  There are journals and scrapbooks of special events.  There are more opportunities for keeping memories than there is time to do it all.

With the monthly calendars provided each month you can also be a curator of your family’s museum with very little “extra” time needed.  Use the calendar to write in happy moments that pass so quickly and never return and are often forgotten.  It can be good to write in hard times too but use wisdom here.  When the month is done either keep the pages to read at Thanksgiving or put it in your school records and review them at the end of the year.  While nothing comes close to reading the Bible and hearing of God’s faithfulness to those in the Bible, there is something so close – so personal – when we routinely write, and remember, of His faithfulness to us personally.

Ideas for the monthly calendars:

• Extra time or days with dad
• Last minute family adventures (even if it is a bon fire in the back yard!)
• Seeing an eagle or the first robin sighting of the season
• An answered prayer for desperate need
• Tender moments or special words exchanged between siblings
• Awards earned