Humble Offerings

I have come to a place where I feel that all of my offerings are humble. I look around and see so many who are blessed with so much, so gifted, so able.  And I am.  I am gifted and able and blessed.  I am overflowing with grace, poured into me by a gracious heavenly [...]

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Which Way Do I Go?

For a while now I have been trying to determine what direction I want to go in a few areas of my life.  I’ve also been struggling a little bit with keeping up with all that life is demanding of me right now – homeschooling, basement construction and the whole-house reorganization that followed, a new [...]

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Eek! I’m A Guest Blogger!

Don’t really know how this happened, but I’m so honored to be asked! Lisa, of A Bushel and a Peck asked me to be a guest blogger!  Eek! So I’ll be hanging out there today – please stop by and share your ideas!

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Hot Thursday Ramblings

First, thank you to those of you that participated in Comfortable! That was fun!  If you haven’t gone there yet, please do and add to the list! ——- It’s been hot here – really hot.  I talked to my friend who lives in the desert (and we don’t…we’ll we didn’t last time I looked at [...]

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Soon…soon

I’m really sorry, if you are here looking for my next homeschooling post.  I just haven’t been able to knock it out of my head today.  It’s probably because I’ve been neck-deep in laundry  and neck-deep in dust as I re-organize my pantry and then neck-deep in questions as I tried to teach my kids [...]

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Happy Monday!

Oh, I have a deep post brewing, but you’ll have to wait just a bit longer until I can dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s. In the meantime, why don’t you just jump over here and read one of the funniest posts I’ve read in a long, long time. Oh, and yes, [...]

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What a Way To Start The Year!

Oh, I meant to write a really deep, philosophical, and resolute post today. I meant to. Instead I slept in.  Then a little later I napped on the couch with my seven year old.  Then I spent some time hanging out with my family. And I’m glad. Hope your year is beginning just as well! [...]

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Ketchup

It’s been so long since I’ve posted that I fear that none of you will return to read anything I have to write now! But while I was gone, I was collecting all sorts of tales to tell! The last few weeks have been nothing less than wild around here – fish stories, kid stories, [...]

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A Sign of a Good Friendship

So I have this friend. We’ve been friends for years and through all sorts of life events. We’ve maintained our friendship as I have lived in five different states, and now we live about 30 minutes apart. What a blessing this friendship has been to me over the years! One of the main ways we [...]

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A Few Thoughts on Vacation

Usually when we go on vacation, we buy something that is representative of that place; then at Christmas time we hang it on our tree.  Our tree is covered with ornaments and mementos of the places our family has been and the things we have done.  Each Christmas season, I relish the discussions that our [...]

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