Early last Saturday morning I took my oldest daughter with me to walk a labyrinth. I had been trying to find time to spend with each child separately, so they’d have time with mommy without competition from their siblings. It hadn’t been something I’d been…
Since starting this blog three years ago, each week I’ve known what to write, even if it wasn’t until the last day. This is the first week I’ve felt like maybe I have nothing to say. These last few weeks have been challenging, to…
It’s a holiday weekend, y’all! Every time I have a holiday weekend, I get so excited, because I look at the three days and think: Look at all this time I have to spend however I want! Almost every time at the end of…
Ever feel like if one more thing happens, everything will come crashing down around you? As if your life is a delicate house of cards and a light breeze will knock the whole thing over? Sometimes I think I might have everything running along like…
This one is for me. But as I write this, I can think of many other people I know who’ve undergone some form of persecution or challenge. Someone has been laid off, you have an unfair boss, there’s a rumor going around. You can…
It just doesn’t make sense. It’s been a good week both with the kids and their homeschool and at work. Even the hospital was extra reasonable! I’m going on a tropical vacation for a few days, the back to school shopping is done (for now),…
I usually write early in the mornings. It seems that if I want to get things done, it’s best to start early, before everyone else is up and the day snowballs out of control. So I get up, pray and meditate, read my bible and…
I’m back in that place again. Last night, I stayed up later with the puppy, hoping she’d sleep a few minutes later this morning. When I woke early to the sound of puppy whining, I realized that tactic was unsuccessful. Add not enough sleep…
We had an interesting discussion at dinner the other night. After I came home from the Plant-Based conference, I decided that I wanted to try to move our family toward eating plant-based instead of doing it alone. Now, while I’d read a book or…
They did it! My big kids did their Memory Master thing! They all successfully finished their exams without any mistakes and earned their titles as Memory Masters. I wrote about the specifics of the test last week (you can read about it here), but…