One of my 3in30 goals for this month was to write a personal mission statement. I’ve felt, for a while, that having a touchstone of sorts that I can look to would help me better prioritize my days, my work, and my life. I used Mission Statements for Moms to help guide my process. I [...]
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Mission Statement
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 3in30, children, Family, mission statement, parenting, teaching on September 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Seasons of a Mother’s Heart: Chapter 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, faith, Family, homeschool on September 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Synchronicity seems to be the name of the game for this chapter. I was on a trip this week for work and I took a long a different book The Not So Big Life by Sarah Susanka for reading on the plane. I know, I know, a real, paper book, but they don’t let you [...]
The Best Laid Plans
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben, Family, homeschool, organizing, planning, teaching on September 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Today is a day where a lot of plans are going topsy-turvy. The plan for the blog was to write a post about The Faculty Lounges by Naomi Schaefer Riley, but I don’t have the brain power to be all intellectual and marshal my arguments coherently. Why? Well, I get migraines (among the other health [...]
Seasons of a Mother’s Heart: Chapter 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben, books, faith, Family, homeschool, Katie on September 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure how this chapter was going to go. I’m not convinced that I’ve ever heard a specific calling from God for me to do anything. I wonder sometimes if I don’t listen carefully enough or if I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be hearing. I believe, though, that [...]
Seasons of a Mother’s Heart: Chapter 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, faith, Family, homeschool on September 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My new motto, also? Two section headings from chapter 1: “Choose to be thankful” (p. 34) and “learn to be content” (p. 36). When I decided to read this book and “join” this book club, I wondered if I was going to “fit” with it. By this, I mean that I’m a thinker and an [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Birthday!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben, Family, food, Wordless Wednesday on August 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Spring Reading Thing 2011 — May Update
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, Family, organizing, parenting, Spring Reading Thing 2011, teaching on May 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I heard about this at No Ordinary Moments and thought that this sounded like just the thing to get me reading a bit more and dodging a bit less. This was the line my initial blog post on this subject started with and, for the most part, I was right. I find myself reading more. [...]
Spring Reading Thing 2011
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, Family, organizing, parenting, Spring Reading Thing 2011, teaching on March 20, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I heard about this at No Ordinary Moments and thought that this sounded like just the thing to get me reading a bit more and dodging a bit less. Except for the hobby books (and Meagan Francis’ book), these are all Kindle books. I’m reading by category this time around so, here’s my plan: Fiction [...]
Ten Years Ago
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family, Sam on February 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
this week was the worst week of my life. On February 13, I received a phone call from my mother letting me know that my grandmother had passed away. I adored my grandmother. She taught me everything I know about football. She had fallen ill the previous summer and my sister went to Minneapolis to [...]
Out of Whack
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anxiety, Family, Katie, trigonocephaly on October 18, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I’ve been feeling particularly emotionally fragile for the last week or so. I don’t know how to explain it except to say it feels like I’m inside of a hole, dirt is falling all around me, and I can’t get out. People reach in to try to help me, but I can’t seem to raise [...]
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