This is a rare, quiet moment in the house with everyone still sleeping except me and the oldest—she’s 20 minutes into her morning beauty regimen. I’m sure the smells of breakfast—blueberry muffins and turkey sausage—will get everyone stirring momentarily. I woke up with other things to do this morning, but I couldn’t resist penning my […]
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention, as a continuation of my last two posts, that God allows trials out of His great love for us. We do not serve a great punisher who seeks to crucify us for everything we’ve done wrong. Instead, we serve an all-knowing Creator who sees, better than we […]
Trusted With Trouble (Part 2)
So, I’ll start back with Lucy, our youngest Narnian heroine. The others had their victories. Peter, in particular, learned a powerful lesson in the essence of manly wisdom: humility. Susan had a brief May-December romance with a man 1/1300 years her age (smile). Edmund, no longer the self-indulgent, self-absorbed brat we met in The Lion, […]
Trusted With Trouble (Part 1)
It’s an odd title for a day-after-Christmas post, but walk with me, if you will. We had a wonderful Christmas Day. I think the kids were generally surprised as they got a few of the gifts that they listed, but they also received some surprises that they weren’t looking for. Our son was desperately trying […]
Tidbits, Trusting–our world this past couple of weeks
I looked at the date of my last post–December 12th. Where on God’s earth did the time go? That’s been the kind of week , er, week-and-a-half, that we’ve had. Days have flown by, but I’d have a hard time articulating what we did in a way that would justify the time. Well, I’ll give […]
No Shoe-horning them into the Schooled Box
Antoinette over at HaflingerHorses asked me about, as Paul Harvey would say, ‘the rest of the story’ regarding the unschooler and her reservations about how to package her child’s animal studies into a well-crafted course description (see my December 1st post). This thread was quite extensive—I won’t share it all, but there was wonderful advice […]
In the Right Place
It’s amazing how much we Americans tie into our sports. In the midst of a struggling economy, we laud sports athletes and pay ungodly sums of money to people for, in essence, succeeding at playing children’s games. So I feel bad about my euphoria these last two Sundays after seeing the Steelers and the Colts […]
Words that represent you and yet influence others
Not much going on around here after the holidays. We had fun over food, along with a visit from my in-laws that we didn’t know about until a few days before Thursday. Hence, we’d bought no turkey as no one here eats it, but instead “gobbled until we wobbled” (thanks, Tirzah) on de-boned chickens stuffed […]
About My Poetic Moment
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 […]