Hello! This is not my normal format for posting, but it needs saying for the one person who reads my blog – Hi, Stephanie! I am sad to announce that I will not be renewing my domain. The scare coming up in a few weeks and I’m not okay with the cost to keep a…
Dumped Out
I got an email today titled “Don’t Dump Out The Lego Bucket!” It’s about planning your home school year, but was also very ironic. Because I am working on a second-have Lego kit right now. The email said to not dump everything out and have to sort through every piece to find what next, but…
Pre-Christmas Clutter-mess
I have very strong season-change decluttering instincts. The hard part about the season change to winter is that it happens the week of Christmas. And while I do love a good trash-bag-therapy session, having one just as there is, or will be, an influx of presents and things, is not how I want my children…
December
I haven’t written since before Thanksgiving. As much as I wish I were in the rhythm of writing, I am simply not there, yet. Some recent life events have been my sister and her family here for thanksgiving, two of my children teething, my mom getting her second hip replaced this year, my oldest’s first…
Resting
I am laid up with a swollen patella. My knee hurts with a dull throb when I’m off it, and when I bend it I feel like wincing. Stairs are pretty rough both ways. I’ve never considered myself to be a busy person but lately I feel like life is going too fast and I…
Washed
“What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.” I was washing my youngest’s clothes today and, since I had time, looking for and spraying stains. I don’t always look over his clothes and sometimes just wash them on the heaviest cycle with extra soap, hoping the stains will come out in…
Did I Do My Best?
Rest Run Run as to win the prize. I was never a 4.0 student. I tried some, but I didn’t become a martyr for a grade ever. I stumbled upon a math test from pastry school. Culinary math is quite different with their word problems, as you can imagine. Everyone in my class thought I…
Missed Shot at Friendship Depth
I initiated a park date with unknown amounts of people from the home school choir that I help run. It was a fun to see friends – for me and my kids – and get to know some of these women deeper. But one segment of conversation got me a little teary and aloof. It…
Sabbath
I’m developing a pattern. It involves not forcing work on Sundays. Now, there is the regular work of getting kids ready for the day, out the door, and off to church in the morning. Washing dishes, tidying what was used, and feeding people, too. But those happen every day. What I’ve noticed is that writing…
Glasses scratches
Sin clouds our vision like scratches on lenses. It doesn’t happen all at once, but eventually we can’t see and begin to believe it is normal to have them. Only when we get a new prescription are the scratches removed and replaced with clear vision do we understand how damaged our world was before. The…
September deep cleaning
Every change of season makes me wanna clean my house at least in one way or another spring brings on airing out the house and summer brings on projects fall is deep cleaning and getting ready for winter winter is usually taken up by sanitizing and disinfecting from being sick. But here is my list…