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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

The July Grove Collaborative Giveaway

  It’s been more than a year now since I first heard about Grove Collaborative.  (It even had a different name back then actually.) And it’s been pretty much that…

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HomeLife

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

It’s fall.  I guess.   But it feels like summer here. I’m one hundred percent ready for a temperature change. funny After our beach trip and our sunburns, it seems…

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HomeLife, HomeSchooling

spring madness. it has descended upon us.

Distracted. Unable to complete tasks I begin. Unmotivated. Moving from one space to the next. I remember feeling this way at the end of my senior year of college. (Probably…

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  • HomeSchooling

    rainy poetry lessons

    / April 17, 2015

    Each week for the past three years I’ve had this sweet opportunity to teach a bunch of kids that I love a little bit about something else that I love – words. Once upon a time, when I was a full time teacher in a different capacity, and I taught students at a traditional school, a fellow English teacher gave…

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    love. via sour dough bread.

    July 25, 2019
    Timberdoodle puzzle

    U.S. 4D Map Puzzle: A Timberdoodle Review

    March 22, 2021
    Let's Start Coding

    Let’s Start Coding: A Timberdoodle Review

    September 16, 2022
  • Field Trip,  Keiglets

    The Story of The Hike.

    / April 15, 2015

    Remember our family camping campaign? Well, ever since we had the idea to camp monthly and to specifically visit South Carolina state parks, Edisto Beach State Park has been high on our list of must-visits. Somehow, though, it never happened.  Mainly because it’s a super popular campground, apparently.  It is frequently booked and reserving a campsite has been a challenge.…

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

    August 7, 2019

    my social dilemma

    September 16, 2020

    morning song: a poem

    April 25, 2019
  • Field Trip

    Notes From The Weekend

    / April 14, 2015

    You know what? I have more ideas for blog posts than I have time for writing said blog posts. Seems I am always out of time lately. And that’s alright for now. Nighttime choices often determine the course of my quiet hours usually reserved for writing. So it’s very late and I am stealing a few minutes where I can.…

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    this little moment.

    August 5, 2020

    The newest little human.

    November 18, 2019

    45.

    May 1, 2019
  • Bergen Hawkeye

    the only choice

    / April 9, 2015

    Cuddling beside my boy, his shaggy hair between my fingers. It’s late and he wants to talk. I was going to offer a quick tuck in and then do some writing, some reading, some anything else in the magical quiet hours after children fall asleep. But he pressed his back against me, shoved his ever-growing, warm, newly size 6 feet…

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    Timberdoodle puzzle

    U.S. 4D Map Puzzle: A Timberdoodle Review

    March 22, 2021

    This Week. Feeling ALL the Pressures.

    December 28, 2020

    Five Finds Friday (meatballs, Scrabble, really odd names for kids)

    January 31, 2020
  • HomeLife

    written from the middle of my bed

    / April 7, 2015

    Mornings are hard. The warm bed, the thick covers, the heavy breathing of my sons beside me. I don’t want to leave the bed.  The alarm goes off and I hold my stupid little phone in my fist and squint at the screen to see what time it is. To determine how many extra minutes I can squeeze out of…

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    swipe left.

    July 16, 2019

    These Is My Words: A Book Review

    November 4, 2019

    five finds friday. (homemade board games, babies & Bergen)

    July 3, 2020
  • HomeLife

    The Day I Went To A Gym

    / April 6, 2015

    I don’t know why I said yes. Well. I kind of do. But, that’s probably a story for another post. All I know is on a Friday afternoon I found myself wearing some kind of black legging thing, a running skirt, a t-shirt and a confused look on my face. Mirrors lined one wall. People were sweating and I felt…

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    five finds friday. (homemade board games, babies & Bergen)

    July 3, 2020

    sixteen. a birthday post.

    July 22, 2019

    just recounting a day . . .

    June 20, 2017
  • HomeLife

    just enough

    / April 3, 2015

    Spring. The Good. Sunshine just warm enough to make the shade feel sweet. Breezes just strong enough to float blossoms and blooms across the yard. The white floating petals just enough like the opening sequence of a romantic movie to make you sigh audibly. The temperature just moderate enough to make all clothing choices acceptable. The hope just tangible enough…

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    one of those . . . weeks

    September 8, 2021

    Six Steps to Hiking & Adventuring With Kids

    July 3, 2019

    five finds friday

    April 5, 2019
  • God's Pursuit of Me,  HomeLife

    wait

    / March 27, 2015

    I have never waited well. I am terrible at transitions. I abhor in-between. I want to be Here or There but I cannot abide Nowhere. And yet this season this season I wait. I sit still and I try not to pace but I feel my feet shuffling. I try not to fret but I feel my heart pounding. People…

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    mid-week rambling.

    August 11, 2021

    tick tock. a small choice.

    November 7, 2019

    five finds friday: dutch babies & my babies all grown

    December 2, 2022
  • HomeLife,  Keiglets

    just reminding myself

    / March 26, 2015

    What My Life Is Not: a burden something I must endure days to get through rejected about me as the central figure a picture perfect plan in my control What My Life Is: a gift an opportunity a work of art poetry accepted rescued in God’s hands What My Children Are Not: my salvation a liability in my complete control…

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    the directions. and where our stories take us.

    July 15, 2020

    … typing therapy …

    June 4, 2023

    Q Bitz Solo: A Timberdoodle Review

    April 14, 2021
  • HomeLife

    sing about it

    / March 25, 2015

    Sometimes I think of my life in terms of song titles. And, of course, the titles change in my mind as quickly as they change on the radio. Give me four minutes and my thoughts will probably shift. Right now I’m drifting back in rock history to Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”. Tell me your title for the last four minutes of…

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    An Ode to EB White

    September 14, 2020
    felt

    Needle Felting: A Timberdoodle Review

    September 11, 2021

    share the good

    October 24, 2019
  • London Eli Scout,  Piper Finn Willow

    explanation required

    / March 24, 2015

    London has a calendar hanging on her bedroom wall. She loves to cross off the days as they are done.  Big X’s across every day. I think she likes the way it looks – but for me, it feels like all these days disappearing in giant Xs. Anyway. I looked at her calendar as I was braiding her hair during…

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    an apology/not an apology

    February 26, 2020

    Stages & Seasons: From Diapers to Dissatisfaction

    November 16, 2022

    spring madness. it has descended upon us.

    April 21, 2021
  • HomeLife

    coming home.

    / March 23, 2015

    So we were supposed to travel to Texas. But you know – the kids got sick and fourteen hours in the car seemed risky business – so Virginia was the consolation prize. (Never a bad place to be – that home state.) You might think while I was gone our house would rest in its silence and emptiness. But you’d…

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    … a new dinner option

    June 14, 2021

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

    April 24, 2019

    the burrow: a fireplace update

    October 22, 2019
  • God's Pursuit of Me,  Story

    words.

    / March 19, 2015

    There are so many words I need to say. And I can’t say. Or words I want to say. But I shouldn’t say. It’s a jumble up here in my brain most all of the time. My days just don’t look like they used to. (I should win a prize for making understatements.) My heart cries out every day –…

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    five finds friday. (apple season is the best. and more.)

    August 16, 2019

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

    July 17, 2020

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

    October 25, 2019
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