As our busy lives start to get a little easier with the kids basketball season ending this past weekend, we are starting to get excited for springtime here at the Homestead. This past weekend we had our final basketball tournament about an hour and a half away, so we decided to rent an Airbnb and make a 3 day mini getaway out of it. Payton Opening the Gate to the Garden We didn't do much, but we actually needed the rest. As many of you know, we homeschool our children, but th

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.   -Galatians 6:7 KJV One day we will wake up and realize that we blew it. We had everything that people could have asked for. Freedom and liberty were ours. But we couldn't handle it. We didn't realize where it came from and we became prideful. We started to believe that we were the source of freedom and liberty. In our pridefulness we kicked God out of our lives. It was slowly at first,