2020 was my sixth year on storiesofourboys.com. I blogged privately for seven years before that. This was my most successful year ever, in terms of how many people visited, read, and returned to my blog. Why though? Did I work harder on it? Write more? Get the word out better? No no. I worked on blogging a thousand times less over the past three years than I did in 2014, 2015, 2016, or 2017. Those were my hard working blog […]
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There is this one question people keep asking me lately. 1.) Are you moving this summer? Do you have orders yet? Yes and no. We are moving this summer, and we DO know where we are going. The person in charge of that has reassured Alan over and over again of where he’s assigned. However, we do not have orders yet, so until we do, we aren’t announcing it. Last time we moved, we made this big announcement to the […]
» Read moreLately I’ve had a few different friends email me with questions about starting their own blog, setting up a blog Facebook page, and making all sorts of blogging decisions. I am certainly no blogging expert, but with 3 years of public blogging now under my belt, there are a few good tips that I’ve picked up on. So whether you are a brand new blogger or an experienced one looking for new ideas, here is a list of all the […]
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I sort of felt like my whole life embodied “hot mess” this week. Several things happened. I allowed so many activities to enter my life that I neglected one of THE most important, like helping my dyslexic-ish son with his spelling words. I put my foot in my mouth without even realizing it (but then, isn’t that always how it goes???). Oh, and my chin broke out like a teenager’s. But hey! I’m hoping that acne on my chin is […]
» Read moreThe Hot Mess blog hop is for all bloggers, even if you don’t actually think you are a hot mess. But you gotta be a hot mess at SOMETHING. No one is good at EVERYTHING. Right? Link up your messies! We are all a hot mess sometimes, in need of God’s grace. Only 1 Rule!!! It’s a family show here. If it’s not PG or G, I’ll have to delete ya from the hop. Bonus points if you follow me […]
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This week I was reminded of something. I am a big, giant failure. I am a hot mess. Now I know. That’s negative self-talk, and we shouldn’t do that. Yeah. I get it. Thinking positively is how you recover from the things that do happen as a result of when we mess up big time, or when someone else messes up and we have to deal with it. In my case, it was me that messed up. I got a […]
» Read moreI am now officially a contributor to montereypremier.com‘s blog, Engaging Work life! This was an exciting opportunity for me, and I hope you’ll give it a read. Here’s a snippet: #1. You HAVE to self-promote. I didn’t want to do it either, but how can anyone ever read your blog if they don’t know that you posted something new? I see it all the time with friends that start blogs. They spend all that time writing, but then they keep […]
» Read more2015 was a happy year here, full of it’s own challenges, triumphs, and best of all, adventures. I put together this look back at my 10 most popular posts from the year. By popular, I mean that these are the posts that were read by the largest number of people. First, a few stats from our past year at Stories of Our Boys: You might have read all 156 blog posts. You are reading this from 120 different countries. JenerallyInformed.com was the […]
» 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 […]
» Read moreOur home school, Pacific Christian Academy, officially reopened its doors on Tuesday. The first day went so well, I was euphoric really. I felt like I was on a roll! The 2nd year is so much easier than the first! And then the rest of the week just kept on coming, and coming, and coming. School has gone well, but life isn’t just school. Teachers don’t just work from the beginning of the school day to the end of it. […]
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