Friends! Welcome back to another month of Share Four Somethings, hosted by my friend and fellow podcaster Heather Gerwing. I confess, I’ve struggled a bit with the two new categories for 2022, Something Braved and Something Achieved, but I think I’m beginning to settle into them. At first, they felt like big categories–like whatever I…
“Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.” (Psalm 127:3) A few weeks ago, my family headed out for a mini-vacation at a resort town a few hours from home. It had been almost a year since we’d had any kind of a getaway, thanks to COVID-19. Our hotel had a…
“Hear, O Israel! The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when…
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…
Every autumn, as the school year begins and we are all settling into new routines and thinking about the ten months ahead, my choice to homeschool naturally comes up in conversation. People ask me how I manage to both work full time and homeschool, and I love sharing how it all works for us. I…
Some days, I just want to write a note to you. This is one of those days, apparently. Let’s Talk About Limes I feel a strange need to tell you about why I use limes instead of antiperspirant. Yes, you read that correctly–I use limes. As in the citrus fruit. Why, you ask? How, you ask?…