Waiting
My mind is a noisy place right now. Thoughts and to-do lists billow like white sails run up on the lines of a ship. Pulled in a hundred directions by unspoken ideas and runaway thoughts, yet anchored to this place […]
Traveling with Kids: 3 Planning Principles
Traveling is one of our favorite topics. Josh and I love to talk about the countries we want to visit, places we want to see, and when we want to see them. And since we have kids, naturally, we want […]
Reading Challenge 2020
Reading Challenge Recap of 2019 It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time for all the new reading challenge goals and resolutions, that is. Boy do I love setting a reading challenge. What I don’t love is forgetting to […]
What I Read: December 2019
Well, I did it! I read 11 books in December, bringing my total to 121 and surpassing my total goal for the year by one. I’m a little bit more embarrassed by how few of the challenge titles I actually […]
Learning Home Management from Ma Ingalls
Learning Home Management Do you ever read through books that you loved as a child and find yourself marveling at entirely different characters? It’s not an infrequent occurence for me. Sophia has been reading through the Little House on the […]
Budgeting for Christmas
Tis the season for new sales every day, which makes it a great season for budgeting! Not that there’s ever a bad season for budgeting, but the holidays are definitely one time of year that can run you right off […]
What I Read: November 2019
Reading Challenge Update Can you believe we’re down to the last month of the year? I hardly can. There’s one month left to make my reading goal this year, and I think I’m going to make it. I only read […]
A Thankful Heart
Ambleside Online is one of the main tools we use in our homeschool and we love it. One of my favorite things is their section on holidays. They have an excellent list of stories and/or poems for Thanksgiving and Christmas, […]
Little Moments, Passing Days
I sit on the floor, legs going slightly numb beneath me as I fold a small mountain of laundry. It’s a weekly occurence, but one that can engulf an entire evening. We’re watching a cheesy Christmas movie (my favorite kind) […]
The Next Best Thing
When we’re dealing with mindful stewardship of our budgets and how they fit into our lives, we frequently come to twists in the road. Sometimes there are potholes or speedbumps, and sometimes the nicely paved road you were on turns […]