by Dawn Camp | May 30, 2013 | Family, motherhood
My third son, fresh from his high school graduation ceremony, spent last week on a South Carolina beach with parent chaperones and other graduates from our Classical Conversations program. We parents secretly sent letters addressed to our seniors, to be read as their...
by Dawn Camp | Mar 30, 2013 | a day in the life, Family, motherhood
Warm Brownies. The words jump off the page, memories of chocolate in the air, cravings satisfied, love and home, butter. Always butter. My mother didn’t cook much. Somehow I never really thought about this as a child, not until I was married with a family of my...
by Dawn Camp | Dec 29, 2012 | a day in the life, Family
On a late February day—the 27th, to be exact—my children found a small white mouse sitting in a cage at the edge of the woods at a local park. Although no longer wanted by his owner, his cage contained food and kept him safe from other animals and hunger until my kids...
by Dawn Camp | Oct 11, 2012 | Family, reviews
A much-anticipated new toy joined our household last week, the Barbie Photo Fashion Doll. Admittedly, I was reluctant to review Barbie. I’d already committed to writing 31 Days of Before & After Shots for October and I just didn’t see how I’d...
by Dawn Camp | Sep 24, 2012 | Family, homeschooling, motherhood
You know those days when everything seems to go wrong and you just want to give up, sit down, and cry? Yeah, those days. I had one last week, but God sent me a moment of grace to put it in perspective. It felt like swimming in molasses, never slowing down but not...
by Dawn Camp | Jun 22, 2012 | a day in the life, Camera Phoneography, Family
Today our youngest turns seven. I can hardly believe it! After years of mothering small children it amazes me that we don’t have babies and toddlers anymore. And as a friend recently described her, our youngest resembles a first-born: mature and independent. 1....
