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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

Field Trip

Guatemala: Day One

It seems I’ve hardly stopped moving since our plane ride from Guatemala ended and London picked us up late that night at the Greenville airport. (Pretty sure I sat behind…

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God's Pursuit of Me

Discipline of Gratitude

      Ever since a Huddle class/study I took last year, the first words in my mind when I open my eyes every morning have been the same. Seriously.…

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Field Trip, HomeLife

going dark . . .

It’s funny that we have a phrase for this. That “going dark” can be seen in so many different lights. (I make puns as if it were my job. Even…

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  • HomeLife

    weekend ramble (a short list accompanied by zero pictures)

    / January 21, 2019

    Is it actually a blog post if you don’t use any photos? You tell me. Here is what I did this weekend, in part: Felt burned out, exhausted and comatose.  Tried to compensate for said feelings by spending my Friday night lying perfectly still eating strawberries dipped in Nutella and catching up on This Is Us.  (I’d stopped watching for…

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    she’s right, he knows her name.

    December 3, 2019

    Five Finds Friday (a whole lot of photos)

    November 6, 2020
    art

    Cognitive Drawing: A Timberdoodle Review

    July 8, 2021
  • HomeLife,  HomeSchooling,  Keiglets,  London Eli Scout

    Five Finds Friday (this, that & the other, also blanket sweaters, food documentaries and college thoughts)

    / January 18, 2019

    It’s been a little while so let’s see if I have Friday Fives within my abilities this week.  You just never know. funny During last week’s writing class at Meadowlark, we worked on a project where we created bad titles and then tried to turn them into good poems.   It was fun and I loved hearing what the kids…

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    five finds friday (superstore, fly fishing, sloppy joes)

    January 3, 2020

    The Things That We Keep Doing

    November 18, 2020

    camping with the boys: lake jocassee is a wonder, but what happened to the hammocks?

    August 12, 2020
  • HomeLife

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

    / January 16, 2019

    I do not have many minutes of unstructured “free” time in my current life schedule. It is likely true that I actually have none. This is the season in which I currently am living. It’s a full season.  Not a busy season. (Well, you know – it’s a busy one too.  So be it.) I’ve reached the nearly half a…

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    five finds friday (freckles, strawberries, plants)

    April 19, 2019

    The July Grove Collaborative Giveaway

    July 11, 2017

    Paris: Our Trip & Tips

    April 4, 2023
  • HomeLife

    the weekend ramble

    / January 14, 2019

    The weekend was gray and drippy and those are not two of my favorite words in describing a weekend. But still, I was grateful for school duties to be put on hold and work to take a backseat. Saturday was an early morning meeting about upcoming new kitchen counters – wood counters crafted by a local couple that I am…

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    the burrow: a fireplace update

    October 22, 2019

    thoughts. on this fragile world.

    April 16, 2019

    Five Finds Friday (Lost Valley Ranch Version)

    June 11, 2021
  • HomeLife

    Kick start the new year with a Grove giveaway

    / January 10, 2019

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    Looking Ahead.

    January 6, 2020

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

    August 6, 2021

    Five Finds Friday (jewelry, ridiculous emails & oranges)

    January 25, 2019
  • HomeLife

    a little step

    / January 8, 2019

    I didn’t make any actual resolutions because follow through is not my jam. Kidding.  Kind of. Small steps, little changes, have generally had more longevity in my own life. This is one of those. Just a teeny tiny little thing. I started putting this one into practice sometime in October.  I like to do that.  Not share with you guys…

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    these days ….

    December 7, 2020

    Songs for Singin’: A Long Winded Okee Dokee Brothers Review & Tribute

    May 26, 2020

    five finds (asleep with a book, love anyway, i like big sinks)

    February 22, 2019
  • HomeLife

    the ramble (weekend & beyond)

    / January 7, 2019

    I won’t pretend to try to keep up with all the holiday happenings and shenanigans.   I will say that we were out of school for the better part of three weeks and I didn’t spend any day where I thought, “I have gobs of extra time here” and yet I didn’t write anything for this blog and I barely…

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    this train of thought ….

    June 29, 2017

    Frankincense – a little educating (but not by me)

    March 27, 2019

    parenting blues

    February 26, 2019
  • HomeLife

    A Toe Tip In

    / January 6, 2019

    What a long delicious break it was. It was a break from writing because I needed it.  But it was also a break from writing because the back end of the my website has been All Kinds of Wonky and frankly, I’m still not certain it’s performing at peak level currently.  Whatever peak level is. Peak level to me basically…

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    Should I Stop Homeschooling?

    March 4, 2020

    How We Are All Connected: Navigators. Glen Eyrie. My Mother. Me. My Sons.

    September 23, 2019

    Five Finds Friday (tiny bags of bacon & I need a grits recipe for the Instant Pot)

    July 17, 2020
  • HomeLife

    Five Finds Friday

    / December 21, 2018

    It’s been a week. Which is a phrase that, if someone else said it, I might laugh.  Because, well, yeah – of course it’s been a week.  That’s how time works. It seems that this particular Christmas is the sort of Christmas where I’ve said, “Oh – we were supposed to go look at lights? Hmm.  Maybe we won’t get…

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    Scrunch Map: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 21, 2021

    five finds friday (otto’s birthday, boots I can’t wear & chili)

    May 22, 2020

    five finds friday (my weakness for hair products and my friends Jane & Walter and my kids reading classic novels)

    August 23, 2019
  • Framily

    The weekend ramble (the framily comes to town)

    / December 17, 2018

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    some tiny epiphanies via my quarantine education

    April 22, 2020

    five finds friday (the one about writing a book and my daughter going to college)

    November 20, 2020

    weekend ramble (from morning Clemson adventure to evening fancy adventure)

    March 4, 2019
  • HomeLife

    five finds friday. (the wrong shoes & Christmas stuff)

    / December 14, 2018

      This week has not felt like a regular week since before it began. Mainly because it started Sunday with the power out from a snow and ice storm that caused lots of trees to fall across lots of wires. But we have power now and we all have been singing the praises of modern technology since then.    …

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    When Buying Local Is So Cute

    May 5, 2020

    school planning over here …

    July 1, 2020

    love. (for a concert and a band.)

    February 20, 2019
  • HomeLife

    Dear Duke Energy Employees,

    / December 11, 2018

      Hi Guys. You won’t have time to read this right now because you are busy serving and helping restore power to thousands of homes across Greenville County.  (And elsewhere too, of course, but I’m currently talking about my family’s little corner of the world.) It was Saturday night – around 1 am – when the power that we absolutely…

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    Five Finds Friday (tiny bags of bacon & I need a grits recipe for the Instant Pot)

    July 17, 2020

    Five Finds Friday (last first day, a giant sweatshirt and tomatoes)

    August 14, 2020

    Bear Grylls Survival Camp: A Timberdoodle Review

    May 18, 2020
  • HomeLife

    what didn’t get done.

    / December 7, 2018

      But seriously. I’m shutting the lap top (or about to) and it’s 1:49. A.M. That’s nonsense.     And I have a list of Five Finds Fridays but I’m too tired to complete it now. I just finished writing the newsletter for Travelers Rest Here.  (If you haven’t signed up, even if you’re not local, you totally should.  It’s…

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    WWII Graphic Novels: A Timberdoodle Review

    February 27, 2020

    Q Bitz Solo: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 14, 2021

    five finds friday. (the driving. the giving of thanks. the funny video. the perfect measuring cup.)

    December 6, 2019
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