There’s a saying: ‘I try to take things one day at a time, but lately, three days attacked me at once!’ In truth, I felt bad almost immediately after I wrote my last entry. God has been too good to us for me to wallow in anything less than joy—joy that, as they say, the […]
What I’d Love to Do…
I’m no poet; in fact, it’s one of the areas that I regret not paying more attention to when I was in school. It just didn’t grab me at the time. Now that it does intrigue me, I wish that I could convey that joy to the children in a better way. But I digress. […]
The Power and Pleasure of a Good Book
I wonder how weather-dependent other homeschools are. We’ve had an incredible bout of much-needed rain (to preserve the last of the late-summer garden), and you’d think we slept outside. The kids dragged, stayed up late, probably cringing from the violent thunder, and even the superhero had to pry himself out of bed to meet several […]
Seeing the Past, Cherishing the Present
I wanted to put words around the slide show I posted before, but simply ran out of time. The military park was amazing, with such descriptive images of the battle sites until you couldn’t help but leave with an appreciation for what each side in the battle had to endure—the heat, the mosquitoes, the continual […]