This series isn’t a countown. I’m just planning on sharing my favorite podcasts. As a home educator, most of them are directly about homeschooling, and I’m going to do the education ones first. That being said, I’ll let you in on a little secret. Homeschool Snapshosts is my favorite. I think it’s because I’m inherently…
For Today… Outside my window…. is a snowy ground and a white sky. Everything looks monotone. I am thinking… that walking the dog in snow & ice sounds miserable. I’m going to have to walk the house for steps today. I am thankful… for modern medicine – antibiotics – and The Little Clinic at Kroger…
One of the assignments from the Read Aloud Revival‘s Master Class Focus and Align (available through membership) was to determine your overarching “this is what we do daily” Rule of Six. I’m still mulling, but here’s a first stab. It is based on my Words of the Year from 2015 and 2016 bookending the “Four Ws”…
In the fall we got this crazy dog. He’s a plott hound, around 2 years old, and has severe separation anxiety. Well, he seems to be getting better, but in the first couple of weeks he broke out of a series of crates and ate my Bible, love seat, and front blinds. Yeah. He does…
For Today… February 8, 2016 Outside my window…. it’s dark but the first edges of sun are peeping about the horizon. I am thinking… about the myriad things I need to do today. I should work in my bullet journal to straighten out my thoughts. I am thankful… for another year with family and friends…
Despite N-boy’s sickness, we had a pretty good week. I think there are several reasons for this. The first is that for my personal weekly goals I included “Play two games with each child this week. They can overlap.” Because I put it on my week’s to-do list, I gave myself permission to play games….
I’m reading Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty by Stephen Turley with a group of Catholic ladies on Voxer. We joke that I’m the token Reformed girl of the group. Anyway, Awakening Wonder is seriously challenging my mental abilities. I read Chapter two three times, the final time I drew Venn diagrams…
