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

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.…

read more
HomeLife

Oh hi. It’s me.

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…

read more
HomeLife

Kick start the new year with a Grove giveaway

read more
  • 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    close to midnight/ sisters

    July 29, 2019

    parenting blues

    February 26, 2019

    Why The Success of Your Marriage Matters to My Kids

    April 17, 2017
  • 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Scrunch Map: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 21, 2021

    friday afternoon thoughts.

    February 17, 2023

    Five Finds Friday (teen drivers. the first egg.)

    January 15, 2021
  • 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    you can’t call it a mid-life crisis.

    January 18, 2023

    going dark . . .

    June 24, 2019

    five finds friday (mustaches & embroidery)

    December 18, 2020
  • 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Five Finds Friday (a new look, a story that stands the test of time, a t-shirt London designed)

    May 15, 2020

    I just want to do it all.

    October 21, 2020

    five finds friday (freckles, strawberries, plants)

    April 19, 2019
  • HomeLife

    Kick start the new year with a Grove giveaway

    / January 10, 2019

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Chasing the Christmas Chain

    December 12, 2019

    what whole 30 taught me

    February 27, 2019

    parenting blues

    February 26, 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    connections. relationships. education.

    April 20, 2020

    Scrunch Map: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 21, 2021

    five finds friday (may is sort of mean, also there’s a lot about potatoes in this one)

    May 3, 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    making music (and art) accessible

    February 10, 2020

    Stitch Fix: We Tried It!

    April 2, 2020

    Dear Child,

    July 20, 2020
  • 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Taking Them on an Adventure: The Literature Odyssey

    February 12, 2020

    books that work their own magic.

    March 5, 2019

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

    August 12, 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    Chasing the Christmas Chain

    December 12, 2019

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

    November 22, 2019

    five finds friday – (Congaree, more soup, another Otto saying & sunshine)

    April 12, 2019
  • Framily

    The weekend ramble (the framily comes to town)

    / December 17, 2018

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    tick tock. a small choice.

    November 7, 2019

    single and other conditions

    January 22, 2019

    hi.

    December 18, 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.    …

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    here we go ….

    May 22, 2019

    is this summer?

    May 28, 2020

    parenting advice: for you & me

    April 1, 2021
  • 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    water. the gift & the cost.

    November 5, 2019

    Paris: Our Trip & Tips

    April 4, 2023

    five finds friday (a long winded run down of yesterday and white chicken chili and student success)

    March 22, 2019
  • 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…

    read more

    Keep Reading . . .

    the winter feels

    January 11, 2023

    five finds friday (dates with otto & beaded earrings & friends)

    November 8, 2019

    five finds friday. (do you know what else starts with the letter f? flu.)

    March 6, 2020
1920212223
2020 ©