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Pinterest YouTube Amazon Stories of Our Boys faith, family, and travel Pinterest YouTube Amazon Search for: HomePrivacy Policy Work With Me Bible Archaeology Faith My Story of Faith Hilarity Military Family moving Real Army Wives Series Parenting Birth Stories Home School Epilepsy Pregnancy Postpartum stay-at-home mom Recipes Travel Israel California Cross Country Road Trip Florida Georgia Virginia Pennsylvania Amish Country Washington, D.C. VTach Over 35 Years of Miramar Beach 2024-05-02 aprilmomoffour beach , faith , Florida , travel , vacation This year our family’s over thirty years of vacationing at the grandparents’ condo in Miramar Beach comes to an end. When I got engaged to my husband Alan in 2002, I took my very first trip to Miramar Beach. Alan’s mom, who we call Nonna now, took me to her parents’ condo. We walked on the beach, ate out, went shopping, and had a great time. Nonna’s dad was a contractor. He built these condos in the 1970s. How cool […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more 9 comments Destin , family , Florida , Miramar Beach , travel , vacation Tips for Talking to an Anxious Teenager 2024-04-23 aprilmomoffour parenting , parenting teenagers Today I have a mental health expert here to help us with talking to our teenagers when they are anxious. I am certainly no expert in this field. I don’t know about you, but I have three teenagers and need all the help I can get. Whether your teenager identifies as anxious” or not, chances are they will have times where they absolutely are anxious. I think it’s unavoidable. Our mental health expert is here to provide us with tips […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more One comment anxiety , anxious , family , homeschool , mental health , parenting , teenagers 6 Important Considerations for Homeschooling 2024-04-12 aprilmomoffour faith , home school , homeschool Today I have a guest post for you on the topic of important considerations for your homeschooling decision. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, as we have homeschooled at our house several different years, in a couple of different ways. There was so much that went into this decision. Our expert today is here to share with us what we should think about when we are making this important decision. Going to school is […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more 2 comments education , family , homeschooling , parenting Last Chance to See the Cherry Blossoms in D.C. Before Major Tidal Basin Reconstruction 2024-03-20 aprilmomoffour travel , washington dc Did you know 2024 year is an important year for the D.C. Cherry Blossom Festival? It is the last year before major sea wall renovations force the park service to take down over one hundred and fifty trees. Don’t worry. Trees will be re-planted. This legitimately needs to be done due to flooding on one side of the Tidal Basin. It isn’t the entire Tidal Basin that is flooding. It’s just the area on one side of the Thomas Jefferson […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more 5 comments cherry blossoms , family travel , photos , spring , travel , vacation , Washington DC Exploring Our Family History in Tannehill State Park: A Beautiful Place to Take Your Family 2024-03-14 aprilmomoffour family , road trip , summer , travel Last year my cousin Amber sent me a VHS video clip of an interview she did with our Maw-Maw back in the 1990s. In this video, Maw-Maw told us there is a cabin in Tannehill State Park that once belonged to our great-great grandparents. Once I learned we have an ancestral home on display in Birmingham, Alabama, I knew we had to go check this out! My kids love it so much when I drag them out on these sorts […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more 2 comments travel , vacation Traveling by Train from Naples to Sigonella Navy Base (in Sicily) 2024-02-26 aprilmomoffour military life , travel On the last day before our flight out of Italy, Alan and I needed to get from halfway up the boot in Naples, down to the island boot tip of Sicily, to fly out of Naval Air Station Sigonella. Our whole vacation was built around our military space available flights. To learn more about flying to Italy using military space A, if you are active duty or retired, click here. All of the flights back to the U.S. were leaving […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more 6 comments Europe , Italy , military flights , Sicily , Sicilyl , train , travel How to Build a Career as a Fire Rescue Officer 2024-02-13 aprilmomoffour parenting , parenting teenagers Today I have an expert guest post from the field of fire rescue! He is here to share with us what it takes to become a fire rescue officer. As I and many of my readers have older teenagers and young adults, I thought this is a relevant and interesting career path to learn about! Building a Career as a Fire Rescue Officer Being a firefighter is a noble profession, but it is not easy and neither is the process […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more One comment careers , emt , fire rescue , parenting teenagers , teenagers , young adults So happy to be back! 13 Lessons from When My Website Crashed 2024-01-31 aprilmomoffour blogging If you visited this website in the past eleven days, you might have seen a disaster scene, a blank website, a ghost town. But I have good news. As you can see, I am back in business. When my website crashed, I learned quite a few lessons through the process of trying to get storiesofourboys.com back up. I am going to tell you all about it. For eleven whole days, storiesofourboys.com was wiped off the face of the internet. It […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more 3 comments blogging , computers , crisis , faith , funny , God , humor , websites Stories of Our Boys Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2023 2024-01-09 aprilmomoffour Archaeology , big family life If you follow both of my websites, you know that I did a top ten list for Gettingmyacttogether.com last week. I would never just shun my original website by not giving it a Top 10 Most Popular” post too. Over the past couple of years, I have tried to take storiesofourboys.com into a more focused direction. Y’all know I started out blogging about parenting four boys, and my oldest son was absolutely not having it. He was right. You can […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more 2 comments Bible archaeology , big family , Christian , faith , home school , travel 7 Beachside Vacations in the U.S. for the Budget-Conscious Traveler 2024-01-03 aprilmomoffour travel Today we are talking about my favorite place in the world: the beach! We have a guest travel writer here to tell us all about different beach recommendations in the U.S. If the COVID-19 pandemic proved anything, it was the adventurous traveling spirit of the average American. As soon as draconian stay-at-home measures were lifted, people packed their suitcases, bought plane tickets for the entire family, and traveled. We not only go to the many stunning oceanfront properties in the […] Join in the conversation. I love comments! Reddit Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Like this: Like Loading... » Read more One comment beach , beach vacations , budget vacation , Outer Banks , travel , vacation 1 2 3 … 78 » April Hey! I’m April, and I am a mom of four boys and military...