For my first year of home schooling, I worked out a schedule and adjusted it repeatedly until it WORKED. That was last year. I had a one-year-old. Year 2: Three weeks in. I now have a 2-year-old, which means less nap time. I also added in teaching time for the 3rd kid. That’s right. Daniel was 3 last year, so I wasn’t actually spending much time teaching him. Plus, we decided to return to kids’ sports. Oh, and I now […]
» Read moreDid any of you see the news? The Josh Duggar news? Turns out the latest is that he has cheated on Anna, using an online cheating service. I will not advertise them by even mentioning their name. I have followed the Duggar family since 2009. That’s 6 years. I’ve read their books, I’ve watched their show. I’ve been influenced and inspired by their values and practices. I feel so incredibly sorry for Anna. She married a man that she thought […]
» Read moreMy crazy week is over. There’s a fresh new week to take on, with no mistakes in it yet. Rest assured. We will add plenty. 🙂 But this week my spirit is at rest. It won’t be much easier. Joshua broke his arm Saturday, and it will be re-cast this week. That means we will have to manage……dumdumdum……the health insurance circus. How many hoops can we make this lady go through? They are the best at that. JD threw up […]
» Read moreDid the first week of school hit any of you as hard as it did us? Phew! I do want to say thank you for your prayers. By Friday morning, I felt like I was myself again. That battle is finished, and I can’t tell you how much your prayers and letters of encouragement meant to me. Now it’s on to the next thing, right? My mom has arrived, and she is downstairs taking care of JD and Daniel for […]
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As I mentioned before, I signed up for the Make Over Your Morning Course by Crystal Paine, of MoneySavingMom.com. I can’t tell you how many of my friends have asked me how that’s going! And some of you mentioned the same misgivings that I felt:“I saw the part about her waking up at 5:45am, and decided that is not for me.” Boy, I love that I have friends that I can relate to. I have friends that are morning people […]
» Read moreThis is the big week, the BIG BIG week. The boys are going to Vacation Bible School, at our very own church. So yes, that means I am going to help. It’s an embarrassingly minimal amount of helping, really. I basically signed up to help lead around 2nd and 3rd graders and listen to them say Bible verses. I haven’t decorated or contributed in any other way. So why is this a big deal? Because we have the only two […]
» Read moreLast month we were on vacation, staying at my parent’s house, aka Nana and Granddaddy. Nana’s table requires a tablecloth. Not a big deal, right? Not unless the Dan Man is eating at that table. In his defense, he probably wasn’t the only one; it just seemed like it was usually him. Poor Nana. I am not even kidding when I tell you that Dan was spilling drinks about three times a day. I went to the store and bought […]
» Read moreIt seems like big times in America, doesn’t it? The President of the United States sang ‘Amazing Grace,’at a funeral this week, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of homosexual marriage, Southern state capitals are taking down the Confederate flags, and ISIS runs through the middle east, torturing and killing everyone who doesn’t agree with them. Where do you even begin to explain the world today to your children? Well, I very happily will show them the video of Obama […]
» Read moreSometimes I mention things on my blog, and then I never come back and tell you the rest of the story, so today I’m going to just do that. Here’s a little update on things I’ve mentioned, with lots of cute photos thrown in. I told you that we packed up and headed South, but did I mention that Daniel is my #1 packing assistant? He is a hard worker! He’d pack one suitcase with me, and I would want […]
» Read moreAs I mentioned yesterday, we are in Florida, on vacation. Joshua asked us last night, “So where are we going to church tomorrow?” Oh. um… I thought we’d just go to the beach. However, we are not ones to ignore the requests of our children, especially such a noble request. We went to a contemporary Southern Baptist Church called The Village. We dropped JD off at the nursery, and the rest of us sat together through a service, and I […]
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