Throughout the years several people have suggested that I should write a book. I’ve often told myself that I should but never seem to find the time to sit down and write. Then I discovered the new trend in blogging and thought that might be a great place to start sharing my thoughts and life’s lessons in hopes that it might be a help or an inspiration to others.

My life has been rich with a varied array of experiences through my world travels, raising six children, five boys and only one daughter, nineteen years of homeschooling, and building a home based business. Our family has had the privilege to travel the world and experience different cultures, a variety of new experiences, and taste internationals foods. Everywhere we have gone we’ve made new friends and attracted so many into our family circle. Our home has been the place everyone wants to be. We can literally say that we have world-wide friends. It hasn’t always been a bed of roses. We’ve had our share of trials and testings but we always manage to come through them all learning from our mistakes and meeting the challenges head on to have the victory on the other side.

Just yesterday a man approached me and told me that his wife said she wanted to get to know me, and talk to me because she wanted to know what I have done to raise my children to be such fine young adults who are so well-mannered, respectful, and well-behaved.  Isn’t that amazing? Well, that was just the spark I needed to send me in this direction to start recording my thoughts and life’s lessons and how we have dealt with them.  This is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.