Thoughtful Thursdays Have you ever felt like a transplanted peony? I do not have a green thumb, but every once in awhile I go out on a limb and try to attempt something garden-ey. I recently transplanted a peony bush. It was living a wilted, shallow existence in the shade,…
Words for Wednesdays I know better than to start a highly-recommended book at 10 PM, but that’s when the house is quiet, and so this month, I cracked open Tessa Afshar’s book, Harvest of Rubies, after the kids were fast asleep, and I didn’t put it down until I read…
Teaching Tuesdays Books, books, books! We take a literature approach to history, which means I scour half.com, paperbackswap.com, and amazon.com’s used books to find deals on all the books we’ll read during the school year. The ordering has been completed for fall 2012, and now it’s like Christmas almost every…
Mommy Mondays Cleaning can be a very frightening task. Trust me, I know. While calmly wiping down the bathtub last week, I pushed away the shower curtain to find something brown staring at me. Not even sure of what it was, I screamed, dropping my cleaning supplies and jumping back.…
Hi! My blog has a new look, and with the cosmetic change comes an attempt at theme-days for my posts. I guess you could say I’m going to attempt to organize my random thought processes into nice and neat categories. Here’s how it will work: Mommy Mondays: The subject matter…
Thirsty? Last weekend, I was at a conference where one of the speakers (Warren Barfield) described a scene where 600 families all fought for one small stream of water. They’d walk two hours through hot, dusty sand, literally fight to fill up their buckets, and then lug that life-giving liquid…
I recently cleaned up my Twitter feed. I’m no longer following over 1000 people. I now follow only 118. This was a huge accomplishment, and now my feed is filled with inspirational quotes, with an occasional sports reference thrown in now and then that I ignore. I had to share…