by Spencer Mason | Nov 30, 2016 | Fall 2016, GREENHOUSE
30 Nov 2016 It was early summer and our family was already thinking about the upcoming school year. Our youngest was ready for kindergarten, and my wife and I were contemplating how we could swing sending our three children to private school. My wife had recently...
by Spencer Mason | Jun 24, 2015 | Spring 2015, GREENHOUSE
24 Jun 2015 When my children were little, we would read good books together several nights a week. We spent time with Peter and Lucy in Narnia, with Laura Ingalls on the Minnesota prairie and we even walked the battlefields of France with Sgt. Alvin York. We also read...
by Spencer Mason | Mar 25, 2015 | Winter 2015, GREENHOUSE
25 Mar 2015 We’re all familiar with the term trophy wife. This term usually involves the rich, worldly man who chooses to marry not for love, but rather to show off a suitable trophy among his friends and business partners. The trophy is a beautiful woman, beautifully...
by Spencer Mason | Jun 18, 2014 | Spring 2014, GREENHOUSE
18 Jun 2014 “It’s a good thing for kids to have daddies. They protect them.” Those words were spoken by my three-year-old grandson, Blake, to his father. In a world increasingly losing its mind about the importance of fathers, leave it to a toddler to cut to the...
by Spencer Mason | Jun 11, 2014 | Spring 2014, GREENHOUSE
11 Jun 2014 As fathers and husbands, we are called not only to provide for our families but also to protect them spiritually, emotionally and physically. How do we do this in our homeschooling families? How do we protect our homeschool from spiritual and emotional...