Parenting can be hard! We would love to share with you our observations as we develop our parenting skills.
If you have been following along on WeSixGricks.com for any time you know we love sharing what we are learning and doing as parents. Tonight the site some much-needed TLC with updated pictures and info. We also purged the Gricklet’s names. You will now just see the first initial in Read more…
Well it’s official, we live in Coatesville. Today we finished packing, cleaning, and moving our belongings from our old home in New Holland. Our last meal in the house happened on a kids play table because it’s all that was left. Now we are staying with one of my sisters Read more…
I know some of you are stressed out about “suddenly homeschooling” and I’m sure it is a huge adjustment for you and your kids! My one piece of advice would be to not overthink it. Today my kids wanted to have a picnic, it’s a beautiful day so why not!? Read more…
Have you ever taken the time to look around and figure out what things are holding your kids back? What is keeping them from taking risks that will let them learn? Maybe an even more cutting question would be; who is doing things for them and preventing them from learning? Read more…
As a family we love visiting Washington DC and while there we often visit the MLK memorial. One of my favorite little known facts about this great civil rights leader is that in April 1963 he spelled out a radical strategy to change culture. Originally in his book, Why We Can’t Read more…
The date was December 26th, 2008 and I was very new to youth ministry, fortunately, one of our volunteer youth leaders was raised in the youth ministry and willing to help. An all-nighter outreach was coming up she Stef and I meet to plan out the night together. After spending Read more…
Last night was Morgantown Community Church‘s Grow Team Banquet. This years’ theme was Nine 23, which will come up later. Stef runs the event and was at the door greeting people as they came in. We knew she was getting close and had been having contractions all day but we Read more…
As a family, we chose to homeschool our oldest for Kindergarten, sent her to public school for first grade, and have homeschooled the following 2 years. Some people cheer us on, others don’t get it. Some families say “I wish I could” and other people act like we are judging Read more…
UPDATE: It was brought to my attention that Abraham did laugh in Genisis 17:17. The remainder of the post has not been changed from its original content. If you didn’t already know C is a feisty child and tonight she focused her feistiness on nothing less then Phil Vischer’s new Read more…
As our family geared up for the gender reveal I gathered supplies needed for the process. One of the things that I needed was my break-action .410. As I leaned the gun in the corner by the door a family member who was over got a little nervous about having Read more…