Daily Thoughts
Letting My Girls Lead the Way with Learning
At last, as we begin this new week, I am delighted our family is mostly easing back into the familiar rhythms and routines. At last, the girls appear to be pretty much healthy once again, and I am more than happy to dive back into our daily flow and patterns,...
Usually Darkest Before the Dawn
Funny story. Before we had children, I often considered myself a night owl. No matter how hard I’d tried, I never quite graduated into the morning lark category like my husband. I’ve always preferred my late-night hours, usually reading or watching a movie. Once we...
Parenting: A Lifelong Learning Journey
If you’re a parent, you know; if you’re not a parent, you were at one point a child, then a tween, then a teen, so, still, you know. You know that sometimes, no matter how old you are, you just need your mama. Nothing and no one else will do. For example, I remember...
The Bookends of My Days
Today I headed off to the library with my 17 year old leaving my 14 year old home with her dad because we needed to replenish our unschooling nonfiction picture book options. Due to birthday things followed by sickness, it has been at least a month since we’ve gotten...
Laughter Is Gloriously Contagious
As we make our way through the second week of cold viruses here, I am celebrating something that’s truly and wonderfully contagious here, and that’s the laughter our family shares. As my girls ate dinner tonight, I considered how much I am missing our opportunities...
Baby Steps & Small Beginnings
Sometimes, when we try to measure our progress, we can miss how far we’ve come along the path of our journey because baby steps are harder to measure. And yet, they are the true measurement of our resilience and commitment in the face of difficult journeys. As we...
The Cumulative Effect of Relationships
As this week gets underway, I realize my teenagers and I are headed into a Round 2 kind of week; rather than returning to familiar rhythms and routines, the younger teenager is succumbing to whatever virus the older had last week and is finally shaking. Alas, there...
If at First You Don’t Figure It Out…
I don’t know about you, but there are times I’m in the middle of what seems like it should be a simple project and I find myself simply stymied. My best efforts yield nothing more than additional annoyance at best because I cannot figure out the solution. In those...
The Wholeness of Wellness
Is there anything better than when the mantle of sickness finally begins to lift? After nasal congestion and stuffed-up noses that make sleeping feel impossible and the sapping of energy from several days of feeling less than 100 percent, when the symptoms that have...