The new school year with our Classical Conversations co-op started back up a couple of weeks ago. Even though only three months had passed since our last meeting, the kids were all ...
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What I Learned this Spring . . . from trivia to life hacks to family insights, and more!
As you read this, I am in the San Bernadino mountains of California, worshipping Jesus and climbing ropes courses and dining on (fancy) camp food alongside my loved ones—both my family of ...
What I Learned in 2025
I’m going to go on record in saying that 2025 has been one of my favorite years of my adult life. It’s not that it was an easy year, far from it. ...
What I Learned This Summer . . . About Faith, Family, Floods, & First Birthdays (plus a few more things).
I’m toying with the idea of moving to a year-round school schedule for our homeschool. The biggest reason is that summer is actually the worst time of year for our family to ...
What I Learned This Spring About Bookshelves, Silliness, Parenting Opportunities, and Doing Hard Things
Spring weather in Texas is notoriously volatile: it’s not unusual to have a morning of thunderstorms, hail, and even tornado warnings followed by an afternoon of sunny, cloudless skies. My moods this ...
What I Learned This Winter About New Ventures, Early Bedtimes, Expectations, and Returning to Treasured Practices
At the start of the year, when I returned to a more consistent blogging schedule and began making plans for what my content would look like in the coming months, I automatically ...
What I Learned in 2024
What did I learn in 2024? Everything, and also nothing. How can I possibly consolidate the lessons of such a momentous year into a few hundred words? In this year of significant ...
What I Learned This Spring About Birthdays, Pregnancy, Expectations, and Small Conveniences
It seems that 2024 is the year of the Tenth Anniversary. Perhaps it’s just the content circles I swim in, but MANY of the podcasters and bloggers I follow are commemorating ten ...
What I Learned This Winter About Blessings, Loss, and My Own Best Practices
I have been reflecting on what I’ve been learning in posts like this one for ten years—almost since the inception of this blog. Often the lessons come easily to me, leaping out ...
What I Learned in 2023
It’s a weighty thing, reflecting on an entire year’s worth of learning. As one who claims learning and reflection as two of my highest values, I carry this task with seriousness and ...