the candy jar

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 […]

My husband has seen God’s divine rehearsal on his job, and it has been mind-blowing to sit back and realize where God has brought him within one year.   I posted about his trial of faith here, and to look at his results now, you’d never believe that he went through what he went through such […]

I am so proud of myself—if I felt any better, I’d be twins!   We are leaving on tomorrow to make a slow trek over to Mississippi to add to our Civil War studies.   So, I actually put away our history studies today.   Me, suspending a subject?   Stepping into the abyss of uncertainty known as delight-directed […]

We run our school on 4 sessions of a 9-week-on, 1-week-off schedule, and so we’ve come to our Fall Break.     I think I needed it as much as the kids.    For sure we’ve had a rough start this year, and the hurricane didn’t help me psychologically.   One of my many blessings was the decision to […]