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Six Months of Habits: Check-Up
June is over. 2012 is half over. Can you believe it? Though at times the waiting and waiting for answers about our next step seemed to drag on forever, in all other ways this year has flown by! The...
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One Habit a Month: Posture
(I’m took a break from adding to my herbal collection in June since I’d prefer moving as few little glass bottles as possible! I plan to be back with my monthly herbal additions next month.) June was...
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God is Wiser Than I Am
“It is easy to believe that God is more powerful than us,” said Martin Luther*, “it is much harder to believe that He is wiser.” Since hearing this quote on Sunday, it has come to mind multiple times....
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October’s Habit: Be on Time (and an Update)
Can it really be three months since I last posted a habit update? I knew that moving would take time, but I really didn’t think it would take this long to finally feel fully settled and back into the...
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Resurrection: Art Missing from The National Gallery
While we were in London, Joshua and I visited The National Gallery to admire the artwork. It was simply amazing walking through and pausing in front of one masterpiece after another. After we made our...
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Habit Updates and November’s Challenge
Want a peak into our home about thirty minutes before we need to get somewhere? 9:30 “Kids, we need to leave soon. Time to clean up the schoolroom,” I say, and then hurry through the house, making sure...
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Timeliness Update & December’s Challenge
November’s goal was simple: to get ready FIRST. What does that mean? It means getting church clothes laid out and the diaper bag packed Saturday night. It means collecting the stuff we need for our...
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CLEP Interview
A college we didn’t go to (photo credit) As many of you know, Joshua and I both pursued our degrees non-traditionally, through testing and distance learning. My dear friend Jessica, who is pursuing...
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Keep To-Do Lists Short
One of the first things Rose did after she could piece together words was write lists. She made her own morning to-do lists, evening to-do lists and all-the-fun-things-we’ll-do-tomorrow lists. For as...
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Why I Love Samaritan Ministries
With the Obamacare penalty-tax scheduled to go into effect and private insurance rate hikes, many are looking for an alternative: consider Samaritan Ministries. Thanks to the dedicated work of a...
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How to Make Meals for Others (When the Thought is Totally Overwhelming)
A few months ago, I stood in my kitchen feeling totally overwhelmed. I had offered to bring a meal to a friend, but couldn’t come up with a good dinner idea. All morning I’d stewed over what to make,...
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How to Make Time for Reading
Does your stack of books to read keep growing, but you can’t seem to make any progress through them? That’s how I felt when I looked over my booklist at the beginning on the summer: I had only finished...
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Fall Reading Report
Committing to post what I’ve read has been an incredible motivator to practice what I preach and actually make more time for reading! Life has been too busy to get sucked into any novels (because I...
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Habit Challenge: Get Dressed Before Breakfast
Two steps forward. One and a half steps backward. Anyone else feel this way when you think about the habits you want to develop? I sure do. But with the dawn of the new year, I’ve been thinking about...
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You Can Reach Any Goal
“You can reach any goal if you’re willing to work on it every day and not give up.” So said a college football commercial. We would all be in a heap of trouble if we believed every commercial, but...
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Savoring This Mommy Adventure
On Saturday, Joshua took the three older kids to his parents house so they could play while he worked on bookshelves for his study (he’s almost done—happy squeal!) Ned had a cold and I had a pounding...
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Goals for 2015
I can scarcely believe that January is more than half over and we’re celebrating Martin Luther King Day, not New Years. It’s kind of embarrassing to just now be getting my goals for this year down on...
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January Goal Update
Goals don’t do much good if you write them down and promptly shove them to the back of your mind. So each month I want to review my goals for the year and share my progress (or lack of progress) with...
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Gentle, Natural Foaming Hand Soap {In Less Than Two Minutes}
A few months ago my hands started getting super sensitive. Every time I washed my hands, they stung. I had to rinse and rinse and rinse them until not even a faint scent of soap lingered. Clearly, my...
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February Goals Update
Getting to share my goal updates with you has been such a good motivation to not let my list sit on the back burner, but to actually chip away at my goals a bit each day. Here’s how I’m doing on my...
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