They say it takes 21 days to solidify a new habit. Well, it’s January 23 and I don’t have any new habits formed. I’ve only achieved my ideal day a couple times. Last week Lee was down at SEBTS for a week of doctorate classes. David and I did a J-term unit study on Harry…
If you only read far enough in the Narnia series to meet Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, you haven’t met one of my favorite characters. Oh, he certainly isn’t my favorite at the beginning of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. He’s annoying, mean, selfish, and lazy. He’s also greedy, and this greed leads him…
When we’re around extended family and friends we don’t see often, one of their favorite questions to ask is how school is going. Our eight-year-old David reminds them, “I’m homeschooled” and usually the focus shifts away from him and onto me. Not everyone asks why we homeschool. Our family does enough weird things (like moving…
Some days I grow weary from the same-ness. From teaching the same lessons. From working on the same goals. From hearing the same mistakes. Every day feels the same. Like Habakkuk, I want to cry out “O Lord, how long … ?” (1:2). My son is six-years-old and I’m still changing his diapers, still lining up…
This month, the MOB Society is answering emails they’ve gotten about issues moms struggle with. Yesterday was my day and I addressed worrying. I know God does not want me to worry. He tells us over and over again to be strong, to give Him our burdens, to rest in His love and care for us….
It’s the first Monday of 2014 and I’m already putting my one word into practice. My husband is off to work. My little one is off to school. My big one is cleaning his room and listening to an audio book. And I’m getting a work out in. (OK, just half a work out. But…
