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it’s the waiting.
Sometimes I fall upon previous posts I’ve written at just the right time to be able to preach to myself a little. It’s funny how life works out like that. (Sort of like my iPod shuffle -eh?) We have a little touch of the limbo happening at our house – a little waiting for some details to work out for…
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gifts. all the big and the little ones.
Nine. He’s been our boy for nine of the speediest years I’ve ever lived. There are days when this boy cannot keep his bum in a seat for a single half hour math lesson. Days when he bumps, jumps and hops his way through every room of our house from rise to fall of the sun. Sometimes he doesn’t use…
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Elly: A Giveaway!
Remember the cousins I mentioned a few weeks ago? They were our comfortable starting point on our northern adventure and our soft landing spot on our winding journey back home again. The whole clan – the whole giant mess of them – are just fabulous humans. On the family tree they are my cousins through my father – his sister’s…
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The Perplexus: A Review
We were on the road for more than 2,000 miles in March. I try to plan a handful of little surprises along our treks to make the time spent in the car more fun for everyone inside the maroon shuttle. When we reached the Tennessee border the kids were allowed to open a family gift. We’ve seen it in the…
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tight spots. tight ropes. walking the line.
I’m in this spot. Of sorts. Tired of me. Tired of wrestling with the same issues. An addiction to control. A desire to run the show. The thought that I’m the master of my own universe. A person unable to portion my time wisely. Unable to avoid poor time management decisions that cost both me and my family peace of…
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good morning.
The morning is sitting quietly. My to-do list is longer than two pages. Pause. Pause. Pause. I wish I had a button to slow down the fast track of these years. It’s not a new thought. And I haven’t come any closer to figuring out how to slow down time now than I have in the past. One of my…
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Five Minute Friday: Paint
The day is Friday. Time for the weekly challenge fellow writer Lisa-Jo Baker offers on her blog. She chooses a word – you write about that word for five minutes only. You share your five minutes of writing and you encourage others to try it too. The word this Friday is PAINT. ________________ The colors are thin. It’s so easy…
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Book Club: Homesick – My Own Journey
Monday night was Book Club night. This month we read Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz. In this autobiographical work Jean Fritz tells about her experiences as an American growing up in China with parents who worked to bring the YMCA to China in the 1920’s. We happened to wait a little too late to snag the book from…
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Ten Ways To Know You Are The Parents of Big Kids
When we visited the beach a few years ago without pack and plays and booster seats, we knew we were ending an era. As I watched the last wee one morph from baby to toddler to little fella, I knew the inevitable passage had occurred. We are the parents of Big Kids. Are you in the club too? The Big…
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On The Road: The Bruderhof Community
Until our trip to central New York I had never heard of the Bruderhof Communities. We went north because Kevin was going north. And Kevin was going north to do video work for the New York Maple Producers. Tim had made a connection with a Bruderhof Community that still tapped maple trees the old-fashioned way – using metal taps and…
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Farmer Boy – You May Change Us Yet
We’ve just started to read Farmer Boy in our Little House on the Prairie Year. Farmer Boy covers the life of Almanzo, Laura’s husband, and his growing up years on a farm in Malone, New York. In the official series it actually appears as about book three I think, but our Prairie Primer suggests reading it at this juncture –…
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Does your home speak of hospitality?
Hospitality: the friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers. I like hospitality. I think it’s a gift – and an often times overlooked gift in our current world. On our recent excursion north our family was able to be blessed multiple times by shows of incredible hospitality. I tell you, friends, there are still hospitable people out there. Just one of those…
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Elijah of Buxton: A Book Review
We listen to a lot of audio books. In the car. In the living room. In the school room. On the front porch. We like words. Stories. Thoughts well-placed and well-spoken. I choose the books we listen to in a variety of ways. Often they are suggested by one of my favorite homeschooling websites – Ambleside. Sometimes a friend…
