I Don’t Want it That Way

It never ceases to amaze (and slightly frustrate) me how God uses situations with my children to remind me of the truth I know. It’s so blaringly obvious too, not just this subtle, “maybe that could apply to me as well.” No, it’s this in-your-face declaration of “you do know you’re behaving like a two [...]

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Another Thing I Learned the Hard Way

There’s being frugal, and there’s being smart, and when you’re a busy mom, sometimes the two don’t work together. Like in that moment when you decide to finish off your kid’s orange juice because you don’t want it to go to waste. So you pick it up and start guzzling down that orangy goodness, only [...]

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Home School Mom Survival Skills: The Absolute Basics

Someone could write a book on this topic–not me–and probably already has, but there are a few things that I’ve learned are absolutely essential to surviving your day as a mom who teaches her kids at home. No, they really don’t have anything to do with the kids–you can read all of that in the [...]

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Dear 18 Year Old Me

This was a fun exercise in creativity. After you read mine, head over to Dear 18 Me and write yours. Do it today and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a $10 iTunes card! Dear 18 year old me, I (you) recently watched this episode of Star Trek (yeah, a day will come when [...]

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Indie Craft Parade Inspires Creativity . . . But of Course!

As if I could have been disappointed! A fabulous date night, so many choices, so much inspiration. Between Greenville’s second anual Indie Craft Parade and my newest source of inspiration, Pinterest, (click link at your own risk) which, interestingly enough seems to have captivated many of my friends all at the same time, my brain is [...]

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Settling Into Moments

We’re well into week four of our school year and starting to settle into a bit of a routine. The scariness of teaching two separate grades at the same time is wearing off, but the reality of trying to do so with a needy toddler underfoot is sinking in. As I reach the end of [...]

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Tech Free Week

It was so needed. It had been creeping up on me a little more each week, gnawing at my subconscious, belittling my defences and questioning my capabilities as a parent, a wife, a contributing member of society. At any given time, I had 14 games of Words with Friends going! App DELETED! My froggydex on [...]

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Why I Can’t Write A New Post Right Now

I can’t write a new post right now because I’m using up all of my free time (and a little bit of time that isn’t free, and a lot of time that I should be trying to sleep) re-watching Star Trek the Next Generation of course! It’s now streaming on Netflix, as if you all [...]

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Things I Learned The Hard Way

It takes a lot less time to just lean down and excitedly inhale the aroma of the pretend soup your four year old made for you than it does to deal with the emotional break down she’s going to have after a half an hour of you exasperatedly telling her that you’re too busy with [...]

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