Kim has been married to Todd Doebler for twenty-five years. We have often said we had an arranged marriage because we met one Thanksgiving when our parents decided to celebrate the holiday together. Four amazing children have rounded out our family. Samantha is sixteen, a scholar. Megan is fourteen, with a missionary's heart. JT is twelve, a dependable worker. Andrea is eleven, a faithful friend.
After sixteen years of big city living in the Minneapolis area we moved to the woods of northern Wisconsin. Our family loves the woods and the life that comes with it: cutting down trees; hauling, chopping and stacking the wood; hunting; fishing; trapping; gardening; swimming; snowmobiling; pets; and space.
What gets me excited? Loving my husband, sharing life with him, and resting in his leadership of our family. Raising four souls for Jesus drives me. Encouraging other moms and seeing it make a difference thrill me. And having company, opening our home and life to others warms me.
Kim is the author of ESP Character Training: Explain, Show, Practice
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By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler Editor’s Note: Kim’s husband is very ill as you will read in this post; therefore, Kim will no longer be contributing on Visionary Womanhood so that she can focus on the new challenges in her life. Please pray for her, her husband, Todd, and their four children as they move […]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler While thinking back over the many lessons I’ve learned to create a smoother running home, I realized three of my top tips have come from the mouth of my husband. Perhaps I remember them so well because I balked at the idea of each of them. Although I balked at […]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler I have often struggled with the exercise craze that seems to have overtaken our country. It seems so consuming for many, even like an addiction. Then I look around me at the super market and I see the other side of the coin. There is so much obesity and so […]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler It was a nice Christmas gathering, until…..a young mom shared that her family celebrates Christmas with Santa. The opinions started flying. Some showed concern and offered solutions. Others were just interested in presenting how evil Santa is. Later, an older woman that had been in attendance called me. She was […]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler A few weeks ago I was helping my daughter with science. While quizzing her on the vocabulary words, we came to the word cohesion. Cohesion is: “the phenomena that occurs when individual molecules are so attracted to each other that they tend to stay together, even when exposed to tension.” […]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler Some people view quiet times as legalism. Our family has experienced them as a tool God has used to draw us near to Him. What is a quiet time? How often do we need to do it? Why do we do it? And are there “rules” to follow for having […]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler Preparing children for adulthood is something we start early at our house. We tell ourselves from the beginning that we are raising adults and not children, so our eyes are always looking ahead. Obviously we do not require of a toddler what we would require of a preteen, yet the […]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler It was out of a desire to raise children with godly character that we initially considered homeschooling. During the first several years of our marriage we were busy observing other families. Whenever we noticed a family that modeled what we hoped for our family, we would introduce ourselves and try […]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler My husband and son are going fishing in Canada for a week. Todd has prepared the perfect devotional for a father/son fishing adventure. It is also a great illustration of the importance of us being salt and light in this world. Even if you have very little interest in fishing, […]
By Contributing Writer, Kim Doebler In a few months our home will be “teen full”. Our children will range in age from thirteen to eighteen. We enter one season while another one ends. We all recognize that there are seasons to our lives, but do we see the value in each one as we experience […]
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Potty Training: Mom of Nine Tells All
By Natalie, Editress of Visionary Womanhood Potty Training: A Necessary Evil I’ve been potty training for 16 years now (well, not me—but, you know—my kids) and have succeeded, during that time, in potty training four girls and three boys so far. I won’t tell you how much poop and pee I’ve cleaned up from walls, […]
Help! Pregnancy is Making My Body Fall Apart!
By Natalie, Editress of Visionary Womanhood I received the following e-mail recently: My husband and I are in the long slow process of changing our thinking about family size. We are currently expecting our fifth little treasure, and we are so grateful, and excited. And a little scared sometimes, too, haha. :) Our oldest is […]
Ten Criteria for Choosing Homeschool Curriculum
By Contributing Writer, Bambi Moore This is the time of year that I’m cleaning out closets, donating or swapping books with other homeschool moms, and also making purchases. As homeschoolers we are blessed to have so many options out there, but what works for one family may not work for another. Also, there are so […]
Demystifying the Institute for Excellence in Writing
By Natalie Klejwa, Editress of Visionary Womanhood Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) Home educating mothers tend to be overwhelmed by two subjects in particular. Science and writing. OK. Upper level math too. Since I’m not much of a left-brained gal, I won’t be writing any posts about dead animal dissections or the wonders of […]
By Contributing Writer, Carmon Friedrich 25 years. We are coming up on that many years of homeschooling our children. Almost a quarter century! That’s not long enough to consider ourselves pioneers in this endeavor, but it does mean we have “seen it all” minus the persecution of the brave folks who forged a path that […]
By Contributing Writer, Kimberly@Raising Olives Four small children romp around me as I will my pregnant self to do the next thing. Two diaper changes. Four little ones dressed for the day. Breakfast for six. Wipe four small faces and eight small hands. Wash dishes. Stop to nurse the baby and change two more diapers. […]
Medical vs. Natural Childbirth: A Personal Story
By Natalie Klejwa, Editress of Visionary Womanhood Twenty years ago I was pregnant with our first baby and determined to have a mid-wife and experience pregnancy and birth in the most “natural” way possible. Nineteen weeks into the pregnancy I began to spot a little. Since I could feel the baby moving and had no […]
Eating the Placenta: A Christian Worldview Perspective
By Natalie Klejwa, Editress of Visionary Womanhood Placentophagy, the practice of eating the placenta after giving birth, is a subject of some interest among Wemmicks these days. After googling it, I only found one other “voice” out there raising the question of whether or not it is a morally viable option for those who claim […]
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