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Marriage Blog Carnival 2009

On May 11, 2009 MMCW hosted our first blog carnival focused on marriage. If you missed this special you can take advantage of it now. I trust you will be blessed, encouraged, inspired, and challenged as you read these thoughtful contributions.  Several readers have shared …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).

What Do You Believe

For the past few years we have been using a catechism to teach our children the core tenets of the Christian faith.  Catechisms are simple dialogues which summarize what we believe in a question and answer format.  There are several versions of the catechism available …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).

Easy Ways to Save Money

Here are a few ways my family has been saving money: 1) We switched all our light bulbs to long-life environmentally-friendly compact fluorescent bulbs. By changing all the bulbs in the house we are already saving about $10 a month on our electric bills. CFLs …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).

Molly’s Favorite Sites

Food Tidings exists to simplify the process of organizing meals for friends or family members in a transitional time of life. Food Tidings allows you to post days needed for meals, your friend’s address, allergies, likes, etc. and is a common site where people can …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).

Sneaky Chef

Can You Keep a Secret? I’ve been hiding something from my family for the past year.  It’s something that falls under the category of “what they don’t know won’t hurt them.”  In fact, it could actually help them! They don’t know that I’ve become a …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).

Your King Has Come

Music plays a large role in my family’s Christmas season celebrations.  We gather each night during December to sing favorite Christmas hymns. Every family tradition from decorating the tree to baking cookies is enhanced with Christmas songs playing in the background. I am always looking …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).

Home-spun Christmas Traditions Blog Carnival

Some of our favorite Christmas traditions are just simple things we do at home. We sing carols by candlelight. We eat toast dipped in hot chocolate. We read through our Christmas Memories Journal and reminisce about Christmases past. These special memories don’t cost much to …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).

Hosting a Christmas Cookie Exchange

I’ve been hosting a Christmas Cookie Exchange for over a decade.  My mother-in-law introduced me to this lovely idea, as she has attended one every year since my husband was a boy.  The fellowship is always sweet, and the party enables friends to share the …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).

Gingerbread House Party

A few years ago, we were blessed to attend a huge Gingerbread house party at my mother’s church.  There must have been at least 50 kids decorating houses, with every possible candy available for toppings.  Lots of fun was had by all. Church volunteers got …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).

Memory Notebooks

I’m not creative enough to be rightfully called a “Scrapbooker.”  Or do they call those people “Scrappers”? I don’t own any specialty scissors.  I’m not sure what a “tag curler” is, and I’ve never purchased “embellishments.” We like to record our memories as much as …

About Molly Evert

Writer Molly Evert is a wife and homeschooling mom to 6 kids, who range in age from 2 to 18. She runs an educational website, My Audio School (http://www.myaudioschool.com), providing access to the best in children's audio literature. She also blogs at CounterCultural Mom (http://www.counterculturalmom.com) and CounterCultural School (http://www.counterculturalschool.com).