Dear Nana and Papa, We can’t wait for you to visit! The kids are beyond excited and the Mr. can barely contain himself- he’s practically jumping up and down, I’m sure you can picture it. I’m so elated myself that I thought I’d plan ahead …
This past week I had a dark day. Not just a day where you lose your car keys and burn the toast. It was a day that brought me to my knees. You know? I felt defeated and depressed in every way; mentally I was …
We were running late. I should know by now that running late to anywhere with three kids spells trouble. We were halfway to our destination when I heard a pitiful whine from my six year old daughter in the back seat: “We forgot my tambourine! …
Are you frazzled? I’m always a bit frazzled, which I like to re-frame as a positive attribute by calling it “spontaneity”. Truth is, I’ve always got a little of lots of things floating through my head and I just don’t always have a way to …
I don’t remember when it started. But after a brief season of trying to get up BEFORE my kids to have some quiet time, I decided to get up with them and try to steal quiet time anyway. It doesn’t really work. But I keep …
I may not know every person who will read this, but I can bet that we all have something in common: We like for people to agree with us. We like positive comments and words of affirmation, facebook “likes”, a thumbs up, or anyone who …
Lies don’t get us where we need to go. Lies are by definition false- and when we follow things that are false, we end up disillusioned, at empty destinations. Lies don’t always look bad- they promise us the very thing we want most, but they …
One of the reasons I wanted to homeschool my kids this year is to be able to more fully explain the social issues of our time. We’re taking the month of February to work through the culture and geography of Africa, working right through to …
How are we already a month into the new year? Sometimes I think that if I didn’t take pictures of our lives, all the days would blur into a strangely faint memory of diapers, schooling, and hot dogs with mac & cheese. But thankfully, we …
I sit here today after a whirlwind homeschool playdate. It was blissfully perfect joyfully chaotic and the kids learned twenty facts about Greece at least one true fact about the Olympics, while exploring why taking turns is always fun probably the fastest way to kill a good …