January on the Books

Happy February, friends! We’re more than halfway to spring now, and I have daffodil shoots poking up out of the leaves outside. I’m a happy camper! January was a great month for reading and hitting other goals. I was pleased with the progress I made in my education reading loop,…

2024 Reading Challenge

You all should know by now that I love my reading challenges. I love making them, seeing how far I get in a year, what comes easily, what doesn’t. Truthfully, I don’t know why. But I love learning new things and challenges help to keep me focused. This year I…

2023 Reading Recap

2023 was quite a year! I did make it through my reading challenge, although my monthly updates here were few and far between. Determined to do better at that this year! So far I am at least writing this in the first week of the new year–so that seems like…

What I Read: July 2023

It has been a MINUTE since I did any writing to speak of, but here I am, trying to fit it into the edges of my day again. And what better way to start than with a recap of a month of reading?! July was a busy month! We started…

The Glass Castle

We entered this glass castle together, across the the moat of uncertainty, into a morass of tangled hallways and rooms. The rooms all different shapes and sizes, all made of glass, unique prisms entangling and reflecting the light around us. Attendents conduct us along the pathways. Brief flickers of the…

Homeschool Beginnings

Ah, September… when thoughts turn to education and new beginnings.  We’re entering our sixth official year of homeschool this year.  I use the word ‘official’ just to clarify that we’re talking about the arbitrary length of time in a year, during which most people agree that children ought to be…

When goodness abounds…

Holy Lord of all the ages,Let me to thy haven fly,Let me rise to seek thee early,Let my hunger never die. Feed me with thy blessed gospel,Let me plead Thee all my days.Thou, who gave this sinner new lifeStay with me, now and always. All throughout the pains of this…