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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, Keigley Approved Recipes, Otto Fox Wilder

five finds friday (the worst jeans you’ll ever see, Otto says something funny and Dolly is the best)

Has this week been kind to you? This week has handed me a stack of “you messed this up” and “hey, here’s another bill” and “whoa – how did it…

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HomeLife, Keiglets

two decades. the last was the growing up. the next will be the growing out.

Because I’m an extensive note taker, journal writer, daily recorder of stuff, I am frequently aware of how many months something has been happening or what day such and such…

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HomeLife

five finds friday (college talk, meeting the Okee Dokee Brothers)

You guys. Every week is a BLINK. I do not know what is happening. I legitimately barely have any time to write at all these days. I’m telling myself it’s…

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  • HomeLife

    five finds friday (not five. but a couple.)

    / November 2, 2018

      It’s Friday. That is all. Wait – there’s more.  I don’t have five finds.  I have three.  I think. I’m all about keeping those expectations low lately.     funny   Any time my phone tries to transcribe voicemail messages it’s pretty ridiculous what it comes up with. But this attempt was especially bizarre …..     fashionable  …

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    five finds friday. (celebrating two years in our home & pleated skirts)

    August 21, 2020

    a little this, a little that

    October 7, 2020

    I’m over here …

    November 3, 2020
  • HomeLife

    how my kitchen reminds me God sees me.

    / October 31, 2018

      I’ve been extra sleepy and extra busy this week. Sometimes my brain says crazy things to me like, “Hey, didn’t you have more energy and less mid-afternoon sleepiness when you were on Whole 30?” And you know what I tell my brain when it says nonsense like that? “Pass me that creme brûlée donut, will you?” Kidding.  Kind of.…

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    five finds friday (mustaches & embroidery)

    December 18, 2020

    weekend ramble (break week is over, we threw axes, I want the sunshine to stay)

    February 25, 2019

    try this at home

    April 7, 2020
  • HomeLife

    the weekend ramble (relaxing and thank you and chipped paint)

    / October 29, 2018

      This weekend was actually what I wish for so many weekends to be — relaxing. It was decent amounts of productive and pleasurable, some one on one time with Bergen (he and I went to lunch together – he’s such good company), a dinner out celebrating with dear and precious friends, a vintage market, a game night with the…

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    close to midnight/ sisters

    July 29, 2019

    my social dilemma

    September 16, 2020

    in between. it’s hard to be a teen. (and a teen’s momma.)

    April 24, 2019
  • HomeLife,  Riley Amber

    Five Finds Friday (the best worst photo & a lot of Lauren Daigle)

    / October 26, 2018

      I’ll keep saying it all the time.  As many times as I want to.  IT’S ALREADY THE END OF OCTOBER!!??! And I’ll use excessive exclamation marks if I feel like it too. Whatever. I guess I’m feeling a little sassy.  Which is a silly word.  Actually, it used to be my daughter Riley’s favorite word.  What should we name…

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    back to the grind . . .

    May 20, 2020

    Five Finds Friday (a song & a rug & senior photos)

    March 26, 2021
  • HomeLife

    a stage, a microphone & no notes allowed

    / October 23, 2018

      Last week I stood on a stage in front of a room filled (mostly) with strangers. There was a microphone and people who bought actual tickets with real money to see this event.     But let me go back a little farther than last week. It was maybe two months ago. Ish?  Six weeks?  Through my work Instagram…

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    My Friend Mary & The Beauty of Showing Up

    April 23, 2019

    Five Finds Friday (earrings – of course. more about eggs – I’m sorry. and a film that’s beautiful.)

    September 27, 2019
    art

    Cognitive Drawing: A Timberdoodle Review

    July 8, 2021
  • HomeLife

    the weekend ramble (I need a high five and you should see my darling dining room now)

    / October 22, 2018

      I have ALL of the words.  And NONE of the time. That’s just the way it is right now, more than ever, it seems. The list of blog post ideas fills a page – but the time to write here is increasingly harder to find.  And I miss that.  Writing out my thoughts, processing my life through this medium,…

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    five finds friday (lemon trees, Noonday parties, toasters, homemade mittens)

    February 7, 2020

    The Right Word.

    July 20, 2021

    these days ….

    December 7, 2020
  • HomeLife,  HomeSchooling,  Product Review

    101 Doodle Definitions: A Timberdoodle Review

    / October 16, 2018

      This is a sponsored post by Timberdoodle.  All of the opinions are my own. __________________________________   This year our homeschool has been a bit more streamlined than it ever has before.  Less fluid and more structured. Some this has to do with life circumstances.  I need the schedule to be more predictable so I can arrange meetings and work…

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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

    Juliet’s School of Possibilities: A Book Review

    September 17, 2019

    water. the gift & the cost.

    November 5, 2019
  • HomeLife

    the weekend ramble (for a weekend that did anything but ramble)

    / October 15, 2018

      This weekend hasn’t rambled at all. In fact, not an ounce of my life has been slow lately.  Or quiet.  Our house has been a cacophony of hammers and drills and walls coming down and decks going up and progress.  It’s all very exciting and all very exhausting. I’m so grateful for the wide range of talents my friends…

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    messy

    April 4, 2019

    this day. this life. some sort of a mood.

    August 7, 2019

    Five Finds Friday (Saylor’s reading and Ryder got a haircut)

    September 18, 2020
  • HomeLife

    accepting it with grace

    / October 9, 2018

      I was lying in bed, reading a few chapters of The Book Thief before bed recently. Focusing on the words on the page seemed impossibly hard.  And not because of poor lighting or minuscule print or the late hour. It was my eyes. At some point this past year I purchased some reading glasses and then only used them…

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    sacred sabbath & rest for the weary

    September 9, 2019

    school planning over here …

    July 1, 2020

    weekend ramble (the stillest of weekends)

    April 8, 2019
  • HomeLife

    The Weekend Ramble: coconut milk and screen time

    / October 8, 2018

      It sure does not feel like autumn anywhere locally.  I see photos of friends who live in Colorado and they are drinking hot cocoa and wearing their base layers already.  Why do I live in the south anyway? (Bergen and I lament this weekly, at least.) Queen Tallulah is ridiculously teddy-bear adorable.  And I don’t want to jinx our…

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    Oh hi. It’s me.

    November 12, 2022

    45.

    May 1, 2019

    Juliet’s School of Possibilities: A Book Review

    September 17, 2019
  • HomeLife

    instead of Five Finds Friday, there’s this . . . (but she’s cute)

    / October 5, 2018

      We interrupt this regularly scheduled Five Finds Friday post to talk about a little something else that’s happening in our house this Friday. You know we love our dog Ryder.  He’s a legit family member – all of his rug like self.  He’s loyal and faithful and funny.  He’s a smart guy who almost never poops in the yard…

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    close to midnight/ sisters

    July 29, 2019

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

    January 3, 2020

    in between. it’s hard to be a teen. (and a teen’s momma.)

    April 24, 2019
  • HomeLife

    break week !

    / October 2, 2018

      When you take one giant portion off your plate, the whole load lightens up immeasurably. This is Break Week at Wildwood Halls of Ivy. It’s so much easier to get all the things done when all the things is a much shorter list. Which begs the question, why am I even doing school?     No, not really.  That’s…

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    here we go ….

    May 22, 2019

    five finds friday (shimmery skirts & strawberries)

    April 17, 2020

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

    April 12, 2019
  • HomeLife

    A List of Things We’re Into Lately

    / September 25, 2018

      Dried apples. Who knew they would suddenly taste so good and crispy?  Turns out – on this Whole 30 journey – I miss chips.  And popcorn.  Crunchy things.  I like food textures apparently and a carrot has a crunch but it still lacks something I like about a chip.  Anyway.  Currently dried apples are working out pretty well.  But…

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    five finds friday (bits & pieces)

    March 27, 2020

    Noonday Trunk Show

    February 11, 2019

    five finds friday (the worst jeans you’ll ever see, Otto says something funny and Dolly is the best)

    February 19, 2021
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