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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

HomeLife, Otto Fox Wilder

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

In the course of one day, a load of mess can happen. In the course of one week – well, even more mess. Right? This week it was a broken…

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HomeLife

I’m over here …

Our power went out last week. (Like more than a hundred thousand other folks.) This website went down last week. (I didn’t have the time or ability to address the…

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HomeLife, HomeSchooling, Keiglets, Keigley Approved Recipes

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

I want to humor myself here and lay out the schedule of what Thursday was like.  thank you. Prior to 9 am – Wake up.  Shower.  Make certain kids are…

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    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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    five finds friday (shimmery skirts & strawberries)

    April 17, 2020

    My Friend Mary & The Beauty of Showing Up

    April 23, 2019

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    July 1, 2020
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    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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    August 3, 2020

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  • 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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    Weekend Ramble: Les Mis, A Kitten & Daylight Savings Time

    March 9, 2020

    Five Finds Friday.

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    April 17, 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…

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    September 11, 2020
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    Kick start the new year with a Grove giveaway

    / January 10, 2019

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    tick tock. a small choice.

    November 7, 2019

    five finds friday (shower curtains, carnitas, earrings and how I’m either denying reality or crying – so little in between)

    April 30, 2021

    … typing therapy …

    June 4, 2023
  • 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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    November 21, 2022

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

    May 15, 2020

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

    May 26, 2020

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    December 18, 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…

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    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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    The weekend ramble (the framily comes to town)

    / December 17, 2018

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    September 25, 2020

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    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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    January 28, 2019

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  • 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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    Frankincense – a little educating (but not by me)

    March 27, 2019
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    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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    February 27, 2019
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