How We Place our Homeschool Year into a Bullet Journal

Too many posts about planning, you think? You could be right, but it is that time of year, and bullet journaling is my new obsession tool of choice to make things happen.   In May, I plan to write an “Are You Ready” series, sharing my own thoughts and experiences about the adjustments families should consider before […]

Teaching Thankfulness (to myself first)

Where are we with this homeschool year?   One word comes to mind as we quickly come to a screeching halt: interrupted. In the back of my mind, I knew that we had two children to pick up at the end of the school year—one graduating, which potentially meant more travel in helping her establish […]

 When You Need a Break…(Just Take It!)

It seems like the public school system is almost constantly under fire, and I am amazed at how with each new Presidential administration comes a new and markedly different solution to identified problems.  I cannot help but think that some part of the problem is the insistence of making our most precious resource—the next generation—the […]

With Beauty and Grace (a dancer’s photo shoot)

 ‘Then our sons in their youth     will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars     carved to adorn a palace.’ Psalm 144:12, NIV           photos are not to be reprinted, copied, or used in any way without permission