I am a homebody. I am happy in my ‘pumpkin’. I feel safe here, and useful, and competent. I know the routine. I’ve been making meals for us for nearly thirty years. I make bread and cookies too. I don’t iron but I do laundry, and I vacuum and once every few months I may […]
Have you noticed how unique the walk of faith is for each of us? We are called to imitate Christ and yet we will not all be itinerate miracle workers without a place to lay our heads… Paul invited the brothers to imitate his example (Phil. 3:17), to follow him as he followed Christ, but […]
For today, I’m departing from the usual fare here—perhaps because it’s school time and creative writing assignments inspire me—please allow me some poetic license as I explore the color brown… and perhaps you’ll want to add a comment about the color that most appeals to you! Brown of hair and eye, and personality myself, […]
Not sure that I know, certainly don’t have a formula, but I’m finding out as I go. This week it’s meant… …being on call: to wash and band-aid a bleeding foot, to teach little legs to climb down a ladder backwards, to tuck a waking little boy back in his bed, to wake up promptly […]
Well, it’s been quite a week…may have started with a sag in hormones, but a bunch of things conspired to exacerbate the situation… Being the time of year that homeschoolers assess what’s been accomplished (and what’s been missed) in terms of academics, I was in this mode well before Rachel requested to see Micah’s old […]