…telling the truth about life and grace. You are not alone, friend.
I love a new year. I don’t do the resolutions thing in general, but I like the excuse to examine the year that’s gone and think ahead to what I want for the coming one, and make some plans to move forward. January of 2018 was no exception. If anything, I was ready to launch …
Continue reading “when January’s goals become summer’s total nonsense”
(Photo: Sarah Lewis Photography. Again.)
We talked a couple days ago what we’re doing to make our homeschool year more… well… educational this year, but I totally left something out. We did a couple weeks of a daily checklist for the kids. Get up. Have breakfast. Clean rooms. Do school. Free time. (It’s clearly a super exciting list.) It worked …
…in which we explore (somewhat belatedly) my “word” for 2017.
Productivity is a drug. An idol. For me, at least. I forgot this for a good, long while because I basically haven’t been especially productive since June. I don’t mean to say that I haven’t done things. Oh, I’ve worked, and hard. But this switch to four is still (five months later) proving tricky. So on my very best …
As many of you know, I’ve been exploring small habits one at a time throughout the year. In October, I committed to attempting my version of the Write31days challenge: I decided I’d try to post as many days of the month as possible. Here are some things I learned… I can make time. Writing has always, …
Continue reading “habits, minigoals, and grace enough for all october”
Things have gone a little off the rails here lately. A million big and little things have conspired and I haven’t written but a couple posts since Lilly’s birth. I know, it’s fine… I have four kids five and under and nobody really expects me to publish daily. Whatever. I can hardly make coherent sentences, …
…in which I remember (again) some limits inherent to this season.
One of the things I’m doing this year is making small, easily accomplished goals to see if any of them make life smoother, better, happier. Here’s May’s progress and June’s goal.
I’ve not been momming for very long. Really only just over five years. So you’ll pardon me if I’m a little late to catch on to this. I have never been the mom who tiptoes in to check on her kids after they fall asleep. What if I wake them? I mean, the fear is real. On …
grace enough 