Reflecting on Another Visit This month, we celebrated my youngest daughter’s 7th birthday. Her father flew in to help us celebrate and I’m happy to say that the visit went as smoothly as it possibly could have given outside circumstances. Dealing with the Outside Remember my former landlord? You know, […]
We made it through We got through the first six-week unit of homeschool! I gotta say, it was not easy… Didn’t think I was gonna make it unscathed. Two homeschools in one house For several weeks, I felt like I had two homeschools going on in my home. I had […]
July was an amazing month, but it went by so fast! We enjoyed a two-week break from school. Even though it was only two weeks, it signaled the end of the school year 2018-2019 and the start of 2019-2020. (That’s how some of us year-round homeschoolers roll!) Thankfully, we are […]
It’s hard to believe that June is already over and July is well on the way. We started the month of June “on vacation” in Ohio. It was a quick vacation, but my youngest daughter’s dad wanted us to join him for a friend’s get together. Not an unusual request. […]
It’s May, so, as always, I take time to reflect on my grandmother, Mary Frances. I wrote a guest article reflecting on Mother’s Day, Memorial Day and Mary Frances a couple years back. As I sit down to reflect on last month, I’m thinking about just how much of a […]
Life’s conveniences can make things so complicated. The opposite can also be said. Things that seem so inconvenient can help you recognize true simplicity. For example, Internet in the rural mountains of Costa Rica is very rare. If an Internet provider is located, the speed is not as fast as […]
“Skreech!!” That’s what I felt like I had to do at the end of February. I was “wide open” the entire month… …and smiling the entire way. The majority of the month of February was spent hosting guests at our permaculture resort. If not guests of the resort community, I […]
Reflecting on the previous month helps me focus on the upcoming month. So, even though it is February, this is my January Reflections Journal. The year officially started on the 8th. The first week of January, we are still winding down from the holidays. At least, that has become our […]
I’m excited to say I made it through October! I recall last year around this same time. My entire world went on spin cycle October 31st. I picked the girls up from co-op, dropped my oldest off at her dad’s house, and took my little one to a neighborhood house […]
“If there’s more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way.” This is the phrase attributed to Edward A. Murphy, Jr. according to his son, Robert Murphy. Does it seem familiar? Are you wondering who […]
