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Favorite Thing #8 – Humble Roots
This book is excellent and worth a post all its own. It has challenged my thinking to its core. I have had to put this book down multiple times to give myself time…
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Wednesday’s Thought – A habit of fresh starts
Today is our first homeschool day of the year. Lists are printed and in binders. Kids are . . . awake. I’m trying to remember that a main aim of us homeschooling is…
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School.
School starts tomorrow. It is officially the last day of summer. Shockingly, another summer has gone by. It happened so fast, it feels like it shouldn’t even be July yet. This year we…
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Favorite Thing #7 – Indoor “window” boxes
This idea came to me from some old deep shelves that were left at my mom’s house when she bought it. She wasn’t sure what to do with them and I didn’t really…
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Wednesday’s Thought – love first
This G.K. Chesterton quote struck me particularly hard today as I was perusing some potential quotes to use for today’s thought. My idea was to find something related to education since school is…
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Reflections of a Life Well Lived.
Austin and I were away for a wedding this weekend. It was a beautiful wedding, two people ready to start building a life together. Weddings always trigger a hope and wonder within me,…
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Wednesday’s thought – stay your mind
“You keep him in perfect peacewhose mind is stayed on you,because he trusts in you.Trust in the LORD forever,for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.”-Isaiah 26:3-4 A quick scripture this morning to…
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Running and Freedom
Running feels like freedom for me. It always has. There is something about the mental and physical battle that your body goes through to do a run– from making yourself get out of…
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Wednesday’s thought – summer’s end is near.
It is now mid-July and I can’t believe how fast the summer has flown by. I am already receiving emails about the school year and boxes of curriculum have arrived. I’m saddened by…
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Nine Years
Today marks nine years that I have been a Mama. Today is my oldest son, Michael’s, ninth birthday. Each year when I put the kids to bed the night before their birthday I tell them…
