Remember when we were just you-knows, just barely falling in love–more than dating, but not yet engaged– and we would email back and forth from California to Salem? I would sit at my parents’ computer desk all that excruciating summer, blushing deeply if they came into the room. I hung on every word you wrote. […]
Archives for May 2014
Granola Recipe
Back in the old days when I only had 2 kids, I had time to play in the kitchen. Once I went on a granola kick and after trying out a bazillion different concoctions, the family and I devoted ourselves (for life!) to the following recipe. We love this granola. It tastes like Bear Naked…only […]
A Bit of Shakespeare, A Dash of Paul
We were in the midst of Measure For Measure. Each day I’d read just a little bit and then close the book at some pivotal moment to a chorus of “MAMA! Don’t stop! Please read more!” It was fresh on our minds, and across the table we were having rigorous discussions of a nature that […]
School: How We’re Doing It
I wrote this post months ago as a follow up to this homeschool update. While this is no longer a true representation of our day, I want to publish it just to have on record. I am so, so, so thankful that the intense season of life referenced below has come to an end… As I mentioned in a […]
Shakespeare and Children
Ambleside Online suggests a continual Shakespeare rotation, with children reading/working through one play per term beginning in Grade 4. In years 1-3, children are introduced to Shakespeare a little bit more gently, with either Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit, or Tales From Shakespeare by Mary and Charles Lamb. Now Shakespeare is daunting to me. […]
When Motherhood is Hard: Still In Christ
So Tuesday night found me flipping through Google, hunting down the local Christian schools. ‘Flipping’ is a good word because I’d earlier flipped my lid. “I’m about to leave!” I’d seethed to my husband as things had heated to a climax. “Why don’t you?” he’d shot back, thrusting the baby and leveling a glare. I […]
Sabbath Weeks
My friend Katie linked me to this article on “Sabbath Schooling,” a style of scheduling the homeschool year so that every seventh week is a week of rest. We have been schooling this way for nearly three years now, though we’ve never given it a name. More or less, we school for six weeks and […]
Embrace Mindfulness; In Godliness, Live
I’ve been thinking about mindfulness these days. Every time I pull behind a familiar 4Runner, I giggle over these words on a bumper sticker: “Midwives Help People Out” and then I consider soberly these words on a second decal: “Embrace Mindfulness.” Embrace Mindfulness. A few months ago our three year began telling stories. In an […]
Eden Grace Eliya
-born 3:33 AM on April 5- An hour into life. A day old. Best family picture EVER. Leaving the Birth Center Two weeks Beauty. Eedee and Papa. Four weeks. One month with Mama. Love!
Home (Oklahoma)
In Oklahoma there were no gutters on the eaves. The rain poured down the roofline and in sheets made deep trenches into the hard, red mud. The grass only sometimes grew over the trench, but when it did, we would forget the dip and twist our ankles as we stepped from the porch. The mud […]