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Monday Meditation (and an update)
One of my favorite “peace” verses is Isaiah 26:3. I’d like to share it from a few different translations: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in...
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Reasons I Love My Husband (on our anniversary)
Some of this is from a post I wrote a couple of years ago, but since today is our 19th anniversary I thought I would share our story again. If you’re visiting from List-It Tuesday and are mostly...
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Monday Meditation
I don’t know if these Scripture meditations help anyone else, but they certainly are helpful for me to get my mind focused on: a particular aspect of God’s nature, a character trait to work on for the...
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Things I Heard My Mother Say
My mom is one of the most organized people I know. I often lament the fact that more of her skills didn’t rub off on me! As I seek to become more organized now, however, certain phrases and tidbits I...
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Monday Meditation
A favorite of mine today: May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual...
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The Saturday Morning Review–The Hunger Games Literature Guide
Don’t you love it when your kids find books they really enjoy reading? I do! But as a homeschool mom, I also like to have my kids read books for literature studies. What’s great is when I can combine...
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Look at What’s Coming!
Yes! It’s Dolphin Tale 2! (And that’s the official movie poster I was given permission to share with you.) We are pretty excited about this. We thoroughly enjoyed the first Dolphin Tale, and were...
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Weekly Wrap-Up: No, we’re not done yet
Well, technically we have put in the number of days required. But that doesn’t exactly mean we’re really and truly done for this school year. We’ve had shorter and shorter school days as subjects...
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Monday Meditation
Ever have those times when you are absolutely unmotivated to do anything? That was me last week. Maybe it’s the fact that we’re in summer mode right now. But, you’d think that the freeing up of time,...
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Weekly Wrap-Up–Camps and movies and new jobs, oh my!
Kinda hard to believe June is about over. We’ve been finished with school for a couple of weeks and it’s been nice to take a break. Even though my girls work fairly independently, there’s still a...
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Monday Meditation
My Bible reading plan currently has me in the book of Hosea. It’s quite the story (along with a whole lotta warnings and prophecy). I think this is my favorite passage from the book: But then I will...
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What I Do
I am an Army Chaplain’s wife and a homeschool mom. I’m also a (part-time) self-employed work-at-home mom. But explaining to people what it is I do is, well, interesting. I guess if I had to put a...
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Weekly Wrap-Up–Friends!
There’s been absolutely no school going on around here, but there has been plenty of other fun stuff! When we moved to Fort Hood, we left behind wonderful friends in Indiana. One of those friends...
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Monday Meditation
Words of praise to start your Monday morning: Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress. The Lord is exalted, for he dwells on high; he...
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The Time I Went to Austin and Came Home Without My Wedding Ring
Let me start with the story behind the title, and then I’ll make the leap to how it applies to my family’s life right now. The Friday before last, my “Weekly Wrap-Up” was all about friends, and more...
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Compass Classroom for Your Homeschool (and a sale!)
(Just so you know, this post contains affiliate links.) Have you heard of Compass Classroom? If you are still in “search mode” for homeschool curriculum for this year, let me recommend that you check...
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I Have a Blog–Maybe?
Wait, I have a blog? Oh yeah, I have a blog! I’d almost forgotten. It’s been so long since I’ve actually written anything though, it feels as if I’ve not been an active blogger since that cup up...
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“Brave Souls”
Remember when I told you I’d be sharing more about the upcoming Dolphin Tale 2 movie coming out in September? No? Well, you can Look at What’s Coming! Cozi Zuehlsdorff, the actress who plays Hazel in...
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Monday Meditation
Normally, Monday Meditations consist of a Scripture verse or passage. Today though, I’d like to share a quote. As I was doing some planning yesterday, I came across these words by C.H. Spurgeon in my...
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Scary Words
Words have great power. They have the power to evoke emotions in their hearers and readers. Some words bring lovely thoughts and feelings–words such as wedding, birth, graduation, coming home,...
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