We just finished our 10th year of homeschooling this spring, and it was absolutely amazing! The best part was that it had absolutely nothing to do with my ability to homeschool, but 100% everything to do with the fact that God is faithful! Our homeschool has gone through some big transitions the last three years …
Favorite books of 2023
This post contains affiliate links, I receive a small commission if you purchase through my link, which helps me keep this site up and running. I didn’t read as many books last year as I had hoped I would, but the ones I actually finished were some of the best I’ve ever read. Instead of …
New School Year 2023
I had been excitedly planning for the new school year since June. Despite this being the fullest year yet, with all five of our children “in school” now, I had been confident that this year would be incredible. Trusting that the Lord would lead me in all the little details of curriculum and scheduling, I …
Thoughts on a Saturday…
In the incredible story of Jesus’s sacrifice and triumph over death, Friday is filled with sadness and despair, and Sunday is filled with joy and wonder; but what happened on Saturday? Luke 23:56 says, “On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.” Jesus’s followers barely had time to lay his body in the tomb …
The invisible miracle of growth
I will never cease to wonder at the miracle of growth. Every time I gently bury those tiny seeds in the dark, I shake my head in amazement. How is it that these seeds grow? How is it that the process of digging, hiding and dying brings forth growth, fruit and life? As I carefully …
Inspiration in the procrastination
As Norton Juster mused in his introduction to “The Phantom Tollbooth;” Like most of the good things that have happened in my life, the Phantom Tollbooth was written when I was trying to avoid doing something else, something I was supposed to do. Some people are like that. I’m one of them. Norton Juster Are …
Through the trenches to where I am today.
I think I starting telling people I was homeschooling when my oldest was 3. I feel like I was a different person that long ago and I don’t even remember what we did for school exactly, but it was a start. Whenever I share with others that I homeschool I’ve had countless people respond by …
Shine on.
I’m more scared than I realized to launch a blog. People will be reading my words and taking them in and either being encouraged by them or judging me because of them, and that’s scary. It’s probably that fear that’s kept me in hiding for so long. But then, thanks to Jesus, I’m reminded that …
At the end of the day.
The post I am about to post is actually an old post that I wrote a year ago on my unpublished blog I had started about homeschooling. There was only one post and I didn’t even know if I wanted to keep writing because I was so determined not to be “one of those moms …