We Do What We Have to Do, Even Solo Vacations
Warning: This is a rant. I am indulging because it will make me feel better. Yes, I realize that this is selfish behavior. Feel free not to continue reading.
Warning: This is a rant. I am indulging because it will make me feel better. Yes, I realize that this is selfish behavior. Feel free not to continue reading.
Strategies for Balancing a Full-Time Job and Homeschooling A colleague instant messaged me from her newly established home office this week. “Are you laughing at all of us trying to get adjusted to working at home?” she quipped. She has two kids who are at home with her because of school closures. I chuckled, but…
Trying to find the right church is like swimsuit shopping. There are too many options. You think one style will look good, but you’re never 100 percent sure, so you feel like you should probably try on everything, which is exhausting and takes far longer than you were planning on. One looks good on top,…
It’s nearing the end of December, and I can’t seem to stop thinking about how fast 2013 has gone by. The fastest year in my memory, actually. People say that time speeds up as you get older, even more so when you have children, and I’ve found that to be true. In the spirit of…
I’m not a big hotel vacationer. I’d rather rent a home-away-from-home scenario wherein we can cook our own meals, toss in a load of laundry, hook up the Xbox if it’s a rainy day, and not worry about whether we need to get out so the cleaning crew can do their thing. Also, we like…
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines,…
This is a belated Merry Christmas, because we’ve spent the past five days without electricity, television, or the internet. It was, in hindsight, a good thing. A blessing. Out of necessity, our plans had to change, Christmas was reconfigured a bit, and all our expectations flew out the window as a large part of Michigan…