Simple Sunday School

Looking for a free Sunday School lesson plans for the Easter season? Here are three simple Charlotte Mason-style lessons, no take-home papers or cotton balls needed. When we were stuck at home for a short season during the pandemic, I put together these lessons for my own children with a variety of short activities including

Hymn study
Bible geography
Bible drill
Bible story narration
Suggestions for a handcraft

The three lessons cover the anointing of Jesus by Mary, the triumphal entry, and the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ.

Click below to get your free download of the three lessons in this series and occasional updates from Love in the Small Things.

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Remember God’s Blessings: How to Finally Start Keeping a Family Journal

December 8, 2022 2 Comments

So why haven’t I made it a habit to pick those journals back up and start writing? Probably because that would mean admitting that I had missed years of journal entries, and if I do later add something about those missing years, it will be out of order. I wish I could go back through our calendars, text messages, and photos to try to piece together something of a family history to fill in the blank spaces first, but when will I find the time? So I wait, sitting on the side of the road, feeling that the enormous burden of my perfect ideal is too heavy for me to budge, much less pick up and carry.

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Helping Your Children Love Learning – Coming Soon!

August 31, 2022 No Comments

While we can’t guarantee and shouldn’t seek delight as our primary goal in education, it does often come as the result of presenting a bountiful, nourishing, and continual feast of living ideas. If we are careful to give our children a loving atmosphere, good habits, and worthwhile resources, God can use those blessings to feed their souls. And they will be much more likely to love learning.

Do You Enjoy Being a Mom?

August 31, 2022 No Comments

I know that I do often enjoy being a mom. But I wish that joy was more open, unashamed, and expressive. I wish that I didn’t feel awkward talking about how full my heart is with nine children, fearful that it sounds hypocritical when I know I so often complain about how full my hands are. But really, “how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blessed!”

20 Books & Tools for Spiritual Growth as a Mom

July 31, 2022 2 Comments

Are you serious about taking the next step in your walk with God and looking for tools that will help you grow? It can be overwhelming to see all the options on Amazon or Christian book websites, especially when you know that so much that’s available today is just fluff.

A Mama’s Recipe for Refreshment

July 31, 2022 2 Comments

Hungry? Get a snack. Thirsty? Grab a drink. Weary-souled? Just keep dragging on. Right?

What if there was something you could do to refresh your soul, even if you had no time for a massage, no money for a vacation, and no one to watch the kids?

10 Great Hymns for Moms, Part 1

July 26, 2022 No Comments

Do the hymns you sing at church seem like just a formal routine that you get through at the beginning of each service while trying to manage little ones hanging on you and flipping through hymnals they can’t yet read? Do the lyrics pass under your glance and roll off your tongue without really doing anything for your soul?

Or do these great songs of the faith express the struggles and desires of your heart? Are they so much a part of you that you sing them at home as you go about your busy mom days?