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Reading Challenge 2020

January 10, 2020 Reading Challenge Reading Life 1 Comment

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 follow through. Which is exactly what I did last year.…

What I Read: December 2019

January 7, 2020 Reading Challenge Reading Life No Comments

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 read from my lists in January last year. I’m determined…

Learning Home Management from Ma Ingalls

December 18, 2019 Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments 1 Comment

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 Prairie books recently, which is both making me sweetly nostalgic…

Budgeting for Christmas

December 12, 2019 Uncategorized No Comments

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 the road if you don’t go into them with a…

What I Read: November 2019

December 4, 2019 Daily Life: My Favorite Things Reading Challenge Reading Life No Comments

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 9 books in November, and I have to read 10…

A Thankful Heart

November 27, 2019 Creative Writing Daily Life: My Favorite Things No Comments

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, and we have been going through the Thanksgiving poems this…

Little Moments, Passing Days

November 22, 2019 Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments 1 Comment

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) and the kids are milling around the room, in various…

The Next Best Thing

November 13, 2019 Budgeting Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments 1 Comment

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 into a dirt road and you have to drive through…

What I Read: October 2019

November 8, 2019 Reading Life 1 Comment

Well, y’all, I am hanging in there. I ended October still two books ahead in my challenge. I’m a little intimidated by the holidays coming up–holidays can be great for reading, and they can also be death to reading. It’s just so hard to tell until the moment is upon…

November Menu Planning and Grocery Shopping Update

November 4, 2019 Budgeting No Comments

In my last post I talked about a few of the things I do to keep our grocery budget low and on target. Now I’m going to show you what my menu plan and grocery shopping looks like for this first pay period in November. The second part of the…