So Every Day.

– embracing the ordinary –

  • Home
  • Affiliates
  • Because
  • Contact Me
  • Editing Services
  • The List
  • Subscribe
  • Home
  • Affiliates
  • Because
  • Contact Me
  • Editing Services
  • The List
  • Subscribe

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary. All work done for God is spiritual work and therefore not merely a duty but a holy privilege.
- Elisabeth Elliot

HomeLife

water. the gift & the cost.

It’s just not something we think about. We know we are privileged to have such free and easy access to it. But it’s not on our grateful radar all that…

read more
HomeLife

five finds friday (ryder dresses up & good friends are worth everything)

Goodness – we crammed a lot into one week this go round. I’m not sure I can even recall where this week began.  Some days it felt as if we…

read more
Book Reviews, God's Pursuit of Me, Story

Scary Close: A Book Review (& some feelings this book unearthed as well)

It was just sitting on the shelf at the library when I was looking for something else. Donald Miller. Scary Close. I haven’t read anything by this author in ages.…

read more
  • HomeLife,  Keiglets

    five finds friday: dutch babies & my babies all grown

    / December 2, 2022

    It’s Friday and it’s already December and I guess that is just how it’s going. Our tree is up – about a week early, breaking Keigley tradition in order to be sure London could decorate with us. But I have liked having the cheerful lights and the happy ornaments in the living room for an extra week. It’s been so…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    felt

    Needle Felting: A Timberdoodle Review

    September 11, 2021

    five finds friday (the best popcorn, a great sermon, ear cuffs and we need a new funny show)

    July 19, 2019

    hello out there.

    March 19, 2020
  • Affiliate,  Field Trip

    The Deal With Me & Low Cost Flights

    / November 24, 2022

    I love a deal. And I love an adventure. It seems I find myself talking about this website where I find both an awful lot so I figured a post about it was maybe overdue. Going is a website. It’s like a clearinghouse for low-cost flight deals. You do not purchase any tickets directly from Going. Here’s what you do:…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Scary Close: A Book Review (& some feelings this book unearthed as well)

    May 13, 2019

    Losing Time: The Cost of Spontaneity This Week

    August 20, 2020

    Plus Plus (A Thanksgiving Version): A Timberdoodle Review

    November 19, 2019
  • HomeLife

    Thanksgiving Tables …

    / November 21, 2022

    It’s Thanksgiving week and we all know it’s a FASSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTT roll right on to January from here on out. But it’s Thanksgiving this week so let’s focus on that. I’ve got my college girl home and we’ve got our family Thanksgiving dinner this week and every single Keigley kid will be together at one table at one time and that…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Five Finds Friday (pumpkin bars, earrings (!) and my kids dressed like historical figures)

    October 25, 2019

    A Reason for Handwriting: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 15, 2019

    going dark . . .

    June 24, 2019
  • HomeLife

    Stages & Seasons: From Diapers to Dissatisfaction

    / November 16, 2022

    There was the season of diapers. Remember that? It was almost an ENTIRE DECADE at my house. I cannot even believe that. For nearly ten years of my life I was in charge of checking for poop, wiping poop, cleaning poop et cetera ad nausem. Now I live in a frat teen house. Teens are everywhere. More accurately, the teens…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Scrunch Map: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 21, 2021

    Should I Stop Homeschooling?

    March 4, 2020

    Lake Jocassee with the Boys

    August 29, 2019
  • HomeLife

    This Age.

    / November 15, 2022

    Ryder and I are the same age, apparently. He in dog years and me in people years. We’re both fans of slow moving and it seems like we spend our days switching from one spot to the next throughout the house. He to rest and nap and me to write and read and work. I went out to eat recently…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    The July Grove Collaborative Giveaway

    July 11, 2017

    according to the schedule, there’s no space for that

    January 16, 2019

    a little this, a little that

    October 7, 2020
  • HomeLife

    Oh hi. It’s me.

    / November 12, 2022

    To quote Taylor Swift and every IG reel and every teenage girl and shoot, most all humans lately – It’s me. Hi. I’m the problem. I like to sigh and roll my eyes and tease my kids, particularly one dear son, about his high levels of distractions, but honestly – I am no different. I have to make lists with…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Noonday Trunk Show

    February 11, 2019
    hawk

    Otto Meets a Hawk

    July 21, 2021

    weekend ramble (fishing, manicures and Noonday)

    February 18, 2019
  • Let's Start Coding
    Affiliate,  HomeSchooling,  Product Review

    Let’s Start Coding: A Timberdoodle Review

    / September 16, 2022

    This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and these words and these opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own.  _____________________________ Every homeschooling family I’ve ever met has a “speciality”, if you know what I mean. While some magical…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    An Ode to EB White

    September 14, 2020

    weekend ramble (the stillest of weekends)

    April 8, 2019

    farm, framily, feelings, photos

    July 12, 2017
  • HomeLife

    How to Get Over the Guilty Feeling of Relaxing

    / July 24, 2022

    Have you ever felt a pang of guilt when you’re not doing something “productive”? Like, you finally get a moment to chill on the couch, look into where The Last of Us streaming, so you can have a binge-fest.  But instead of enjoying it, you’re plagued by thoughts of all the things you should be doing. Maybe you should be…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    books that work their own magic.

    March 5, 2019

    parenting at the end of a school year. bless us all.

    May 20, 2019

    five finds. on a friday. (eyelashes. chicken pot pie. basketball.)

    November 22, 2019
  • HomeLife

    Snap.Shot.

    / July 14, 2022

    How’s it going around here these days? Well. Today I came home from a stacked day full of meetings and a podcast recording and errands and being sure this kid went to that house and that kid conquered that chore and one kid at camp and I don’t even know what else. I was wrapping up my last meeting of…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Six Steps to Hiking & Adventuring With Kids

    July 3, 2019

    The Right Word.

    July 20, 2021

    the weekend ramble (it’s back)

    July 27, 2020
  • HomeLife

    To Those of Us Graduating Kids This Spring

    / May 16, 2022

    This is an open letter to moms with seniors this year. And to dads too, I guess. Actually – how about this is a letter to just to ALL the people who love anyone who is graduating this spring. There – we can ALL have permissions to feel the feelings. It is a LOT! It is everything and it is…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    The Deal With Me & Low Cost Flights

    November 24, 2022

    The newest little human.

    November 18, 2019

    soundtrack of my mind

    February 10, 2021
  • HomeLife

    Five Finds Friday: The British Edition

    / February 18, 2022

    Well hello there. It’s been a while. Recently London and I “opened” her high school graduation gift, many many months delayed. A trip to London, England. I have SO many words to write SO much. (And you can bet they are words like fancy and loo and queuing and charlatan.) But it seemed a fun way to start digging into…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Bear Grylls Survival Camp: A Timberdoodle Review

    May 18, 2020

    Five Finds Friday (boots, of course, and pretty drinks and a book update)

    August 6, 2021

    a little this, a little that

    October 7, 2020
  • Gatsby
    HomeLife

    Five Finds Friday (puppy. black leggings. muu muus. apple cider.)

    / November 12, 2021

    All week long this country song has been playing in my head. “I’m much too young to feel this damn old.” Yes. funny We visited Denver Downs, a family farm with pumpkins, a corn maze and more, this week with friends and had a really great time exploring the farm and enjoying its quirky and fun and creative play options.…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    state of the union – or an official sounding title for an unofficial style post

    June 27, 2017

    An Ode to EB White

    September 14, 2020

    This Week. Feeling ALL the Pressures.

    December 28, 2020
  • sunset
    Chaos,  HomeLife

    Time is not my enemy.

    / November 9, 2021

    But sometimes it feels like it is. I’ve been (ever so slowly) reading a book called The Lazy Genius. It’s full of really great stuff. Practical help. Emotional help. All the in between help. The author talks about the seasons of our lives – raising little babies, empty nest, new careers, frequent moves, crisis, whatever it might be for you.…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    a thank you, thirty years later.

    October 16, 2019

    water. the gift & the cost.

    November 5, 2019

    my social dilemma

    September 16, 2020
1234
2020 ©