November is the Thanksgiving month and this week I’m particularly thankful for a new appliance – my dishwasher! It comes with a funny back story though. Last month there was a day that I was feeling particularly overwhelmed. Or rather, I’d been feeling overwhelmed for weeks and I felt like it was coming to a…
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Thinking Generationally
Thinking generationally. It is something I’ve been considering lately. This phase of life in which I’m currently immersed (specifically, lots of little children), makes it easy to hyper focus on whatever is happening in the moment, because there is SO MUCH happening all of the time! Whenever I am obsessing over all the things that…
Not Extraordinary, Just Very Determined
Yesterday we started “officially” homeschooling, and as people replied with congratulations and well wishes to the cute pic of our oldest daughter holding her “welcome to 1st grade” sign, someone made a comment about how I must have endless energy. But the reality is – no, I actually don’t! It’s typical of the replies we…
Raising Future Husbands and Wives
As a parent, do you think about the spouses you are raising? A spouse can be either a great blessing or a great curse. One of my goals in life is to raise Godly offspring who will be wonderful husbands and wives. Before I was married this was something I thought of in theory, but…