Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding. Proverbs 3:13
Homeschooling. Miriam-Webster defines "home school" as to teach school subjects to one's children at home For some people this looks like taking a traditional classroom setting and simply recreating it at home. The desks, the chalkboard, the lesson books and work sheets all done just like they would be in a 4 walled school with… Continue reading Our Unconventional Homeschool
Happy Wednesday! Can you believe we have made it through the first few days of the new year? Here we are starting the first full week of 2019. Last week when I shared my goals for 2019 the first area I mentioned one of the main areas I need to focus on this year is developing my… Continue reading Developing Spiritual Disciplines
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! To be honest I am really shocked at how quickly and yet how slowly 2018 went by. The year as a whole was hard. For my family it started in a valley and it really took until about the middle of the year before we even started to climb back up to… Continue reading Setting Goals for 2019
Faith I have said, read, and thought that word enough over the past week that it's starting to not sound like a word at all. Even so, it's a word that I will be thinking and focusing on for the foreseeable future because faith is my chosen word of 2019. This past year I chose… Continue reading And My Word for 2019 Is…
Its 11:00 on Christmas night. All the holiday meals have been eaten and cleaned up from, the gifts have been opened, played with, examined, and appreciated, and now everyone is sleeping soundly. All in all I have to say it's been a great day. There were no bad attitudes, no melt downs, and no fights… Continue reading When Christmas Doesn’t Feel Christmassy
She believed she could...so she did. Ok...lets be really honest here. More often than not over the course of the last 5 years there were a lot of other people who believed I could WAY more than I believed I could....so I did. However, there were those rare moments...often times late at night after submitting… Continue reading What’s Next
May 1, 2018 Honestly, where has this year gone? How on earth is it already May? I feel like the first few months of this year have been both the longest and the shortest in history. January started out so promising. Everyone was finally healthy! I was jumping into several new goals for the year… Continue reading And Just Like That Its…
Its been one week. 7 days since I woke up with this feeling in the pit of my stomach and 2 missed calls from my mom from far to early in the morning. The reply on the other end...Ma is gone. Who is Ma? That is a fantastic question. For much of the world she… Continue reading One Week
After sharing my meal planning process I have had several requests to go a bit deeper and share exactly what it is that I bought, how much I spent, and the meals that will go with that list. So, ask and you shall receive! Below you will find first my detailed list of groceries. This… Continue reading Meal Planning: Digging Deeper
When I was a kid it always seemed like food was just there. We always had breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Sometimes we even had snacks. Sure I knew that my mom had to go to the grocery store to get the food that we ate but I never really gave it much consideration. When I… Continue reading My Meal Planning Process
